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Sat, Jun 7, 2008 | 3:00 PM

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CANCELLED: Museum as Hub: Seeing “Neighborhoods” Anew: Art Institutions’ Enactment of the Transnational

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How are art institutions re-envisioning communities and neighborhoods in transnational contexts? Do their engagements open up or close off spaces circumscribed by geography, geopolitics, commerce/business, military bases, citizenship, and social and cultural dislocations?

Reflecting on the New Museum’s art/institutional dialogue on  the topic of neighborhood through the Museum as Hub project and Insa Art Space’s related project “Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision,” Hyun Sook Kim explores some preliminary thoughts on the importance of seeing the “transnational” in particular neighborhoods, from Dongducheon to the Bowery. For Kim, visualizing the “transnational” illuminates the limits of modern geopolitical imagination engendered by nation-states and their containment/regulation of selective bodies and spaces. 

This lecture is part of Insa Art Space’s project, “Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision,” on view in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub space from May 9–July 6, 2008.

*This event is free with Museum admission, but tickets are required.

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This discussion is made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

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Hyun Sook Kim

Hyun Sook Kim is a sociologist-educator interested in the question of knowledge and human freedom. Post-colonialism and transnational feminist theories frame her current work on democracy, equality, and critique of modernity. Kim received her doctorate degree in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. She is Associate Provost and Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Kim’s recent publications include: “The Politics of Border Crossings: Black, Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Perspectives,” Handbook on Feminist Research (Sage 2006); a co-edited Special Issue of Gender & Society (April 2005) on “Conceptualizing Nation-State-Gender-Sexuality”; and "History and Memory: The 'Comfort Women' Controversy," Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press 2005).