Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century
November 17–19, 2021
We’re just one week away from Asia Society’s 2021 Arts & Museum Summit, which will be held virtually on November 17–19, 2021! Held biennially, the Summit features presentations, panel discussions, and workshops by leading arts professionals from the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Don’t miss your chance to join a dynamic convening of curators, artists, and museum and arts professionals to examine issues across the field that matter today.
This year’s 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.
It’s not too late to take part! Register now to hear from some of the leading authorities in the arts field today. Registration includes access to all summit events and an electronic copy of the 2021 Arts & Museum Summit publication, Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century, a compendium of essays by featured speakers expounding on the topics covered across the summit. Special discounted rates for artist and students available upon registration.
Details about registration, the full list of speakers, and the agenda are available at AsiaSociety.org/MuseumSummit.
Speakers
Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation
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
Manray Hsu, Art critic/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
Việt Lê, Artist, Curator, and Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies | Visual & Critical Studies Graduate Program, California College of the Arts
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 —
Yoshiko Shimada, Artist and Lecturer, University of Tokyo
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Sarah Suzuki, Associate Director, The Museum of Modern Art
Tamarra, Artist
Ming Tiampo, Professor, Carleton University
Amy Whitaker, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Administration, New York University, Steinhardt School
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. Past Summits have examined issues including the surge of new museums in Asia, the urgency of cultural heritage preservation, audience engagement, and collection practices and philosophies at arts institutions.
Supporters
The 2021 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.
