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ASIAN ART MUSEUM DIRECTORS’ FORUM 2007
16-18 November 2007 – Singapore Art Museum
Art museum directors from Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, will meet in Singapore to discuss issues facing Asian visual arts and art museum development during Asian Art Museum Directors’ Forum 2007. This is a follow up to the inaugural AAMDF held at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing in September 2006.
AAMDF 2007 aims to provide a common and sustained platform for initiating civilizational dialogues and work towards cultural understanding; for developing a comprehensive network among Asian museums, art faculties and cultural institutions; and for furthering collaboration and joint programming among art museums in Asia.
AAMDF 2007 will open at 7:00 pm on 16 November and will close with a business session (9:00am – 11:00am) on 18 November. The forum on 17 November is open for registration by museum professionals, artists, students and the general public.
The planned programme for the public forum on 17 November 2007 is as follows:
Session 1 9:30 am – 12:00 noon
FORMS OF EXHIBITIONS: MUSEUMS AND BIENNALES
Museum and biennale exhibitions are conventionally regarded as different forms of exhibition. Increasingly, museums are taking lead in biennales, while biennales also take on curatorial framework reminiscent of museum exhibitions. The Asia- pacific region will experience a significant surge in the number of biennales in 2008 when Sydney, Gwangju, Busan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Singapore and Yokohama will all be hosting biennales. This session will address the different forms of exhibition in the light of the fast growing museum and biennale scene in Asia.
Panelists
* Okwui Enwezor – Artistic Director, Documenta XI; Curator; Writer; Critic;Dean of Academic Affairs/ Senior Vice President, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
* Gao Shiming – Curator, Guangzhou Triennial 2008; Curator; Art and Culture Theorist; Director, Institute of Visual Culture, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China
Session 2 2:00pm – 4:00pm
MODERN ART HISTORY IN ASIA
Cubism in Asia (exhibition held in Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Paris in 2006) was organized as a joint project involving the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, the Japan Foundation and the Singapore Art Museum. Art historians and curators from across Asia, including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand were engaged for the research and planning of this project. This is also the first known attempt to focus on the question of how Cubist trends were received by artists in Asia and their responses. Akira Tatehata who initiated Cubism in Asia will present the project. This will be followed by Kim Yoon Soo’s discussion on Realism in Asia – another collaborative effort between the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, and the Singapore Art Museum. Realism in Asia is planned for 2009.
Panelists
* Akira Tatehata – Lead Curator for Cubism in Asia; Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
* Kim Yoon Soo – Director, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Session 3 4:30pm – 6:30pm
ART MUSEUM IN CURRENT ECONOMIC CONTEXT
For decades, art museums have had a significant role in portraying and preserving the landscape of culture. While in many respects, museums were and still are the gatekeepers and treasurers of the arts, they are also experiencing a paradigm shift in museum policies as suggested in International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) 2007’s discussion on Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism. Reduction in public funding for art museums all over the world is pushing these institutions toward a market paradigm based on maximizing earned income. New economics of museums also facilitate the burgeoning of new museums around the world. How would the functions of art museums evolved under the contemporary social and economic context?
Panelists
* Kwok Kian Woon - Head, Division of Sociology, Vice-Dean (Academic) School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
* Corazon S Alvina - Director, National Museum of the Philippines, Chairman of Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS)
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Click here for the registration form
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Ms Mandy Tan
Email:
Mandy_tan@nhb.gov.sg
Phone: +65 6332 7971
Fax: +65 6334 7919
Ms Chow Yian Ping
Email:
Chow_yian_ping@nhb.gov.sg
Phone: +65 6332 3506
Fax: +65 6334 7919
MEDIA ENQUIRIES
Ms Sybil Chiew
Email:
Sybil_chiew@nhb.gov.sg
Phone: +65 6332 3291
Fax: +65 6334 7919
