CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings How Global Can Museums Be? CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings Tokyo November 7–9 2015 1 CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings and Graduate University for Advanced Studies Program (Sokendai), Hayama, Japan. Saturday November 7, 2015 Q&A with Shigemi Inaga The National Art Center, Tokyo Day 1. Is the museum still a place for debate? Perspective 05: Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programs, Welcoming remarks Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. — Mami Kataoka – Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum. Perspective 06: — Bartomeu Marí – President of CIMAM. Slavs and Tatars, Artists, Eurasia. — Hans-Martin Hinz – President of ICOM. — Arimasu Ikiku – Deputy Commissioner, Agency Perspective 07: for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Eugene Tan, Director of Singapore National Gallery, — Tamotsu Aoki – General Director, The National Singapore. Center, Tokyo; Chair of Japanese National Committee for ICOM and Chair of CIMAM Perspective 08: Tokyo 2015 Executive Committee. Mariana Botey, Associate Professor Modern/ Contemporary Latin American Art History, Visual Keynote 1: Patricia Falguières, Professor, School for Arts Department, University of California San Diego Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Chair (UCSD), San Diego, California. of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris. Panel discussion with perspective speakers Q & A with Patricia Falguières Q & A with Perspective speakers Perspective 01: Mika Kuraya, Chief Curator, Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Monday November 9, 2015 Roppongi Academyhills, Tokyo Perspective 02: Jack Persekian, Director and Head Day 3. Is there a global audience? Curator of The Palestinian Museum, Palestine. Perspective 9: Perspective 03: Brook Andrew, Artist and Lecturer: Bose Krishnamachari, President and co-founder, MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture), Kochi Biennale Foundation, Cochin, Kerala, India. Monash University, Melbourne. Perspective 10: Perspective 04: Georg Schöllhammer, Editor, Wong Hoy Cheong, artist, George Town, Malaysia. Curator and writer, Head of tranzitat.at and Founding Editor of springerin, Vienna. Hedwig Perspective 11: Saxenhuber, Curator, writer and General Editor Peggy Levitt, Professor and Chair of Sociology, springerin, Vienna. Wellesley College and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Panel discussion with perspective speakers Perspective 12: Q & A with Perspective speakers Anton Vidokle, artist and founder of e-flux, New York & Berlin. Panel discussion with perspective speakers Sunday November 8, 2015 Roppongi Academyhills, Tokyo Q & A with Perspective speakers Day 2. How has modernism been perceived globally? Keynote 2: Shigemi Inaga, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto 2 (in the document click on any page number to return to the table of contents) CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings Saturday November 7, 2015 Day 1 Is the museum still a place for debate? 3 CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings Welcome speeches — Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator, Mori Art debate about the present and the futures of the Museum. museum as an institution dedicated to the public Good morning once again. We’d like to start interest, the common good. the CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference. Welcome to Working for the past years with Anne- Tokyo, we have such a nice weather today! My name Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine, Director General of is Mami Kataoka, I’m the one of members of the ICOM, has been very productive and pleasurable board of CIMAM and Chief Curator of the Mori Art and I should thank her and her team for their support Museum and I’d really like to welcome you all here. and involvement in this transition process. This new So, we’d like to have Bartomeu Marí, President of status will allow our organization to receive the CIMAM begin the conference. funds, which are essential to the sustainability of our — Bartomeu Marí, President of CIMAM. association, of our activities, and will allow us also Good morning everyone. to hire professionals that carry out the day-to-day It is a great pleasure in the name of the work in our office. Until now these professionals members of CIMAM board to welcome you to this worked on a freelance basis that was costly and not 2015 CIMAM conference in Tokyo. In the coming very convenient. days we will gather around presentations, debates, I also wish to communicate that Jenny Gil, our discussions about a wide range of things that are of Executive Director for the past years, left our organ- major concern and interest to the community of ization and is working now in an art institution in the professionals in the museum sector. United States: I take this opportunity to wish her the As in the past years, the contents of this best for her new career. Also those of you who program have been elaborated by the board of come regularly to the conference will be missing CIMAM with a strong, intense participation of our Inés Jover, our right hand at the CIMAM office, but local hosts, the people at the Mori Museum, and this is because of the happy event that she is about Mami Kataoka in particular. Under the title How to give birth to her first baby. Global Can Museums Be?, the members of the Today, for this conference, Victoria Macarte is board have tried to synthesize a program that representing the CIMAM office here in Tokyo and I highlights some of the questions, the issues, the would like very, very, very, very specially to thank challenges or the new fields of action that the and celebrate the involvement of Natsu, Sumika, museum world is living in today; the forces and Ayako, and Julia from the Mori team, who made this interests that shape our world are happening faster conference possible and certainly will be the key to and faster, with changes in our economic, techno- most of its success. logical, political, social, and cultural environments. I would like to express my deep gratitude to all This conference will discuss, among other of the members of the Japan Executive Committee things, if and how a single, unique code of ethics— for the CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference and espe- morality and deontology—can apply for the different cially the Agency for Cultural Affairs under the regions of our globe. For example, if a single Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and narrative or construction of discourses about Technology in Japan as co-organizers for their modern and contemporary art can be constructed. valuable support, without which this project could The tensions between universal values and local not have been possible. Also, the Japanese National realities we are living in are at the core of the Committee for ICOM, the Japanese Association of motivations for this year’s CIMAM conference. Museums, the Japanese Council of Art Museums and 2015 has witnessed events where tensions the Japan Association of Art Museums for gave way to cases of crisis and deep conflict among welcoming the international community of contem- the actors of the system. One of these cases, by the porary art museum professionals represented by way, affected myself and the institution that I CIMAM. I wish also to give our heartfelt thanks to directed for the past seven years. The debate will Ishibashi Foundation, to Benesse Holdings, the address the nature of these critical situations in Fukutake Foundation, the Shiseido Company, for order to make this discussion of interest to all. being key partners and sponsors of this important Also, this year we inaugurate a new chapter in meeting, allowing the highest quality in organization our relationship between ICOM and CIMAM, with the and programming. My acknowledgement goes also status of Affiliated Organization to ICOM. The to the companies: Dai-Nippon Printing, Nihon Kotsu, presence among us of Dr. Hans-Martin Hinz, and Yu-un for their generous support. A very special President of ICOM, signifies the normal develop- mention goes to Ms. Yoshiko Mori, the Chair Person ment of this process that confirms CIMAM’s role as of the Mori Art Museum, who is hosting this event; to a dynamic contributor to the development of the Mr. Fumio Nanjo, the Director of the Museum; Mami 4 CIMAM 2015 Annual Conference Proceedings Kataoka of course, the Chief Curator of the Mori Art contemporary art professionals from many countries Museum for their dedication and commitment to this to attend this CIMAM 2015 conference, so thank you project. Also, as I mentioned, her team has been for that. really crucial. The quest for greater inclusion and diversity is Our gratitude also should go to modern and and always has been at the heart of ICOM’s work. contemporary art museums (the institutions that we Facilitating the exchange between professionals are going to visit during these days here in Tokyo). from diverse regions of the world and various social Finally, I would like to give special thanks to very and cultural backgrounds is a wonderful achieve- important partners of CIMAM and those are, first of ment. Contemporary art museums in my view have a all, the Getty Foundation in collaboration with ICOM, particular mission to create dialogue between the the Fundación Cisneros: Colección Patricia Phelps past and the present, between the established and de Cisneros, and the Gwangju Biennial Foundation the experimental, all the while ensuring the accessi- for their generous grants that allow members from bility of the institution to an increasingly diverse different contexts to join this important conference: public. As such, CIMAM has worked hard to facili- 28 professionals residing in countries with emerging tate the exchange of information and cooperation, to economies or from Central America and the ensure that the role of contemporary art museums in Caribbean and South Korea are coming with the the social and cultural development is understood. grants provided by these entities. The theme debated here today: “How global can I could not end these words without reminding museums be today?” in our globalized societies, you that more than twenty years ago in 1994, the contemporary and art museums face new challenges first CIMAM conference took place in Tokyo and at in the twenty-first century.