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11/4/2013

Museum as Hub

New Museum, New York

On April 12 and 13, the Museum as Hub will host its Annual Conference. Marking the sixth anniversary of the Hub initiative, this conference aims, in part, to consider strategies for the next phase of the project, while also reflecting more broadly on the rapidly shifting global context it inhabits. The conference will dedicate itself to a number of questions pertaining to the notion of “institutions” as such, exploring ways and means by which art organizations assume shape via programming, alliances with other institutions, and dedication to specific content or context. Developed with Museum as Hub partners, this two-day conference held in the New Museum Theater convenes an international group of curators, artists, and scholars to examine themes including: the concept of regionalism; the “question of feelings” in relation to curatorial practice; and the imperfect institutionalization of the “discursive object” within the museum.

As both a physical site and a growing network, the Museum as Hub facilitates artistic and intellectual exchange through forms of exhibition, residency, public programming, editorial and digital projects, and other projects. Museum as Hub activities are inspired, in part, by a group of international partner institutions who collaborate to produce shared research and programming. Current Hub partners are art space pool in Seoul, Beirut in Cairo, de_sitio in Mexico City, Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, Miami Art Museum, Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: How Do You Feel (About Institutions)?
Friday 04/12 4:30PM

The first panel of the Museum as Hub conference, “How Do You Feel (About Institutions)?,” lays the groundwork for the discussions that follow by presenting institutions not as ossified, inflexible structures but as systems of dynamic scale, position, and possibility. This conceptual shift is made through an exploration of a “question of feelings” or the personal stakes—and, indeed, the people—that are central to any organization’s constitution at a given time. Considering ways in which “feelings” can structure both visible and also internal operations, panelists will discuss their own institutional practices and investments relative to the structures they work in and around; the connections between authorship and accountability; the affective as it pertains to curatorial practice, and suggest ways in which institutions themselves might be thought otherwise within such a framework.

Panelists: Naomi Beckwith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Eungie Joo, Director of Art and Cultural Programs, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Hyunjin Kim, Chief Curator, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul; Michelle Marxuach, Cofounder and Codirector, Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sarah Rifky, Codirector, Beirut, Cairo. Moderated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, New Museum.

MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Choosing Your Neighbors
Friday 04/12 7PM

Center for Historical Reenactments, Na Ku Randza, 2011. Public intervention in Center for Historical Reenactments’ neighborhood, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. Courtesy Center for Historical Reenactments. Photo: Sanele Manqele
Part of Museum as Hub, Exhibition-Related, in Discussions

The density and interconnectedness of the international art community is generating new mappings of influence and dialogue. This occurs increasingly as artists and institutions choose partners around shared ideas or histories, at times without regard to geographic proximity. These new shifting and emergent “cultural cartographies,” to borrow a term from curator Yuko Hasegawa, make institutional claims of “being international” seem to be oversimplifications of more complex sets of alliances and interests. This panel will explore possibilities for activating the term “regionalism,” as a way to strategically limit thinking around specific localities and empower particular perspectives or new “centers” of artistic activity organized around decentralized areas. Panelists will discuss recent collaborations, from exhibitions to research partnerships, that relate, or counter, this notion of “strategic regionalism.”

Panelists: Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Annie Fletcher, Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Hyunjin Kim, Chief Curator, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul; Tobias Ostrander, Chief Curator, Miami Art Museum. Moderated by Lauren Cornell, Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects, and Museum as Hub, New Museum.

MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Networked Institutions/Institutionalized Networks
Saturday 04/13 2PM

The model of the Museum as Hub took shape in a context where institutions were increasingly finding value in being networked, operating in discrete but interwoven parts, or through affiliations across different compatibilities. This logic has now been so absorbed—becoming second nature to arts practitioners—that dynamics of collaboration are often obscured. This panel will look specifically at the quality and nature of networked ties between institutions through a more granular view of how the conception, production, and presentation of projects are realized. The curators and directors involved will address a broad set of questions, among them: How and when institutions benefit from joint ventures? How can resources be actually shared and/or grown through collaboration? And how can decentralized strategies of working influence institutional priorities and practices?

Panelists: Jay Levenson, Director, International Program, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Daniela Pérez, Cofounder, de_sitio, Mexico City; Ashok Sukumaran, Pad.ma, CAMP, Mumbai; tranzit.org: Dóra Hegyi, tranzit.hu, Budapest, Vít Havránek, tranzit.cz, Prague, Georg Schöllhammer, tranzit.at, Vienna. Moderated by Ryan Inouye, Assistant Curator, Museum as Hub, New Museum.

MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Institutions After Art
Saturday 04/13 4PM

Recent critical discourse has generated a proliferation of terms to designate contemporary practice: “the pedagogical turn,” “the discursive turn,” “the social turn,” “the participatory turn,” and “the performative turn,” to name a few. Whether these “turns” have successfully addressed urgencies at the core of the supposed transformation or are mere stylistic tropes that reductively periodize ongoing methodologies, institutions have endeavored, in earnest, to accommodate each one. This panel will explore this imperfect embrace, or what could also be understood as the “objectification” of the discursive practice, exploring how institutions of varying size and scale seat such work or allow themselves to be temporarily occupied by it. Speakers whose work centers around the discursive event and its reoccurring forms will come together to share the context they work within, including the particularities of the organizations they engage with, and consider new strategies for accommodating “turns” in practice.

Panelists: Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International and Partido Revolucionario Cubano, Queens, New York; Annie Fletcher, Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Omer Krieger, Artistic Director, Under the Mountain: Festival of New Public Art, Jerusalem; Michelle Marxuach, Cofounder and Codirector, Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Alexander Provan, Editor, Triple Canopy, New York. Moderated by Taraneh Fazeli, Education Associate, New Museum.

Image: Zbynek Baladran. Courtesy tranzit.org

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