The Museum as Hub in Public: Past, Present, Future
This panel will recount the history of the Museum as Hub initiative, evaluate its original goals, and address how the Museum as Hub network can be structured in different institutional and geographical contexts in the future. Museum as Hub programs and exhibitions including In and Out of Context (New Museum) and “Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea” (Insa Art Space/Arko Art Center at the Museo Tamayo) will be discussed, as well as the possibilities for future manifestations that support the evolution of the Museum as Hub.

Panelists:
Annie Fletcher is a curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, where she developed the project, Be[com]ing Dutch, from 2007-08. With Frederique Bergholz she is the co-director of the rolling platform "If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution," which initiates performance and art projects with various partner institutions in the Netherlands and beyond.

Eungie Joo is Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York, where she oversees the Museum as Hub initiative, the high school partnership G:Class, and music, performance, and intellectual programming such as the series Propositions and Night School. Joo was Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, where she presented the project “Condensation: Haegue Yang.”

Heejin Kim is a curator at Insa Art Space/Arko Art Center, Seoul, where she has favored research-based, dialogical art practices of diverse forms that actively engage artists, local communities, and the public. Most recently, Kim curated “Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea” at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City and “John Bock: 2 handbags in a pickle” at IAS and Arko Art Center.

Tobias Ostrander was recently appointed director of Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City. Previously he was curator of contemporary art at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo where he organized projects and exhibitions with Jeff Wall, Artur Barrio, and Lisa Yuskavage as well as the group exhibitions “Tierra espiritual” (2009) and “Felicidad indecible. Una selección de arte contemporáneo de China” (2005).

Daniela Pérez is an associate curator at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, where she recently curated “The line of the volcano,” a site-specific project by Pedro Cabrita Reis. She was a contributing writer for Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia.

William Wells founded the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, in 1998. As director of the organization, Wells has been instrumental in stimulating the Egyptian art community and propelling local artists into museums and galleries around the globe. He recently organized the Cairo Residency Symposium, documentation of which can be viewed in the Museum as Hub Space at the New Museum.

Moderator:
Amy Mackie is a curatorial assistant the New Museum, New York, where she curated The Deeper They Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes by Rigo 23, now on view at the New Museum. Past projects include C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) by robbinschilds and A.L. Steiner and It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq by Jeremy Deller.