Museum as Hub: How Do You Feel (About Institutions)?

Friday 12 April, 2013
4:30pm, $8

New Museum
235 Bowery

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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.

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