ⒸNational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA)

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Dates : 30 NOV 2018 – 1 DEC 2018
Venue : Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA)

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The international symposium ‘What Do Museums Collect?’ is the second research project—coming after "What Do Museums Research?"—of "What Museums Do" organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(Hereafter MMCA). It is no longer new to see that borders between the different genres of art are torn down, the roles of curators and artists integrated, and exhibitions happening beyond the boundaries of institutionalized museum spaces. The overall project, "What Museums Do" investigates the roles of museums through several key verbs such as "research" and "collect"—topics which are especially seminal at present—when art/artwork-related policies and curatorial directions are in a state of flux.

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○ Day 1
　- Dates: 30 NOV 2018, 1-6pm
　- Theme: Collecting Others in Contemporary Art Museums: Diversity and Inclusion
Beyond Post-colonial Discourses
　- Presentations:
　　∙ [Tony Bennett]( Tony Bennett %28Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University%29) (Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University)
　　∙ Lisa Horikawa (Deputy Director at National Gallery Singapore)
　　∙ Yup Jang(Head of Education & Cultural Programs Department at MMCA)
　　∙ Shan Lim(Assistant Professor in the Department of Curatorial Studies at Dongduk Women’s University)
　　∙Joan Young(Director of Curatorial Affairs at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

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○ Day 2
　- Dates: 1 DEC 2018, 10:20am-6pm
　- Theme: Strategies and Remediation of Collecting in Contemporary Art Museums: Rewriting Art-History, Digital Humanities, and Destination of Art Works
　- Presentations:
　　∙ Terry Smith (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh)
　　∙ Sven Beckstette(Curator at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart–Berlin)
　　∙ Marcella Lista(Chief Curator in New Media Collection at the Centre Pompidou)
　　∙ Emily Pugh (Digital Humanities Specialist at Getty Research Institute)
　　∙ Sunhee Jang (Associate Curator of Research & Publication Team at MMCA)
Inhwan Oh (Associate Professor in the Department of Painting at Seoul National University)
　　∙ Beryl Graham (Professor in New Media Art at the University of Sunderland)

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More info:
Homepage www.mmca.go.kr