Two-Day Museum as Hub Conference

April 12–13, 2013

On April 12 and 13, the Museum as Hub will host its annual Conference in New York. Marking the sixth anniversary of the New Museum’s 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,” exploring ways and means by which art organizations assume shape via programming, alliances with other institutions, and dedication to specific content or contexts. 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.

Zbynek Baladran. Courtesy tranzit.org

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, and editorial and digital projects. Museum as Hub activities are inspired, in part, by a group of internationally operating partner institutions who collaborate to produce shared research and programming. Current Hub partners are the New Museum (founder), 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 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Panelists

The Museum as Hub Conference panelists include: Naomi Beckwith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International and Partido Revolucionario Cubano, Queens, New York; Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator, Education and Public Engagement; Lauren Cornell, Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects, and Museum as Hub; Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Taraneh Fazeli, Education Associate; Annie Fletcher, Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Ryan Inouye, Assistant Curator, Museum as Hub; Eungie Joo, Director of Art and Cultural Programs, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Hyunjin Kim, Chief Curator, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul; Omer Krieger, Artistic Director, Under the Mountain: Festival of New Public Art, Jerusalem; Jay Levenson, Director, International Program, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Michy Marxuach, Cofounder and Codirector, Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Tobias Ostrander, Chief Curator, Miami Art Museum; Daniela Pérez, Cofounder, de_sitio, Mexico City; Alexander Provan, Editor, Triple Canopy, New York; Sarah Rifky, Codirector, Beirut, Cairo; Ashok Sukumaran, pad.ma, CAMP, Mumbai; tranzit.org: Dóra Hegyi, tranzit.hu, Budapest, Vít Havránek, tranzit.cz, Prague, Georg Schöllhammer, tranzit.at, Vienna. For full descriptions of Museum as Hub Conference panels, visit newmuseum.org/calendar.