Asia Society 2021 Arts and Museums Summit
November 17-19, 2021
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Asia Society 2021 Arts and Museum Summit: Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century
Join us November 17–19, 2021 for a dynamic convening of curators, artists, and museum and arts professionals—online! The 2021 Arts & Museum Summit will feature presentations, panel discussions, and workshops by leading arts professionals from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
The 2021 Summit, Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century, will focus on issues relating to decolonization in the arts. Some of the topics to be explored include decolonizing curatorial practices, re-negotiating art historical narratives, and deconstructing the legacies of regional colonial histories. Please note the agenda is subject to change.
Speakers
Anida Yoeu Ali, Artist and Senior Artist-in-Residence, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
Brook Andrew, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne
Alexandra Chang, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark
Jacqueline Chao, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art
Joselina Cruz, Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila
Parul Dave-Mukherji, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Tania El Khoury, Artist and Director, OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts, Bard College
Jessica Hong, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art
Chia-Wei Hsu, Artist/Curator
Vibha Joshi, Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
Jennifer King, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Dinh Q. Lê, Artist
Stephen Murphy, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, SOAS University of London
Apinan Poshyananda, Chief Executive, Bangkok Art Biennale
Sara Raza, Red Burns Fellow at NYU, New York University / Punk Orientalism Studio
Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum
Grace Samboh, Research curator, Hyphen —
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Ming Tiampo, Professor, Carleton University
Việt Lê, Artist, Curator, and Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies | Visual & Critical Studies Graduate Program, California College of the Arts
In formation as of 9-23-2021
About the Arts & Museum Summit
The biennial Asia Society Arts & Museum Summit brings together arts and museum professionals from around the world to discuss timely issues across the field. The Summit is intended to identify and navigate the challenges and opportunities within the evolving arts ecologies across Asia and its diaspora, and engenders professional networks and collaborative exchange amongst arts professionals internationally.
Each Summit focuses on a specific topic that reflects the current thinking in the arts and museum world. In 2013, the Summit examined the surge of new museums in Asia and the pressing issues institutions face in this century. The 2015 Summit explored the urgency of cultural heritage preservation in Asia across tangible and intangible mediums, both traditional and contemporary. In 2017, the Summit addressed audience engagement at cultural institutions and outreach strategies used to build those audiences. The 2019 Summit focused on collection practices and philosophies at arts institutions, including non-collecting museums and artists’ estates.
Supporters
This program is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art through the Elizabeth Glassman Fund for International Museum Partnerships.
Recordings from the convening can be found on the following pages:
- Asia Society’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/asiasociety
- 2021 Arts & Museum Summit webpage: https://asiasociety.org/museum/2021-arts-museum-summit