Deadline: October 25th (23:59 in Korean/Japanese Time UTC+9)
Application Form :https://forms.gle/N2Pr9bHaB5TxPt9f9
Project. The Great Museum
[Remote & Research Residency for Independent Curators/Researchers]
Cooperated by co・iki, Supported by KOFICE
“Memory and Memoricide of the Land”
-Reimagining Alternative Model of Museum -
How will museums sustain themselves in the future?
When we envision a new form of a museum, we could probably start with dislocating the “Museum” , reclaiming the “Land” where it is located.
The relation between the “Land” and the “Museum” could be uncovered by people’s memory and memoricide.
How can we reconstruct a new model of a museum?
How can we collectively reimagine and recreate the museum structure deconstructing / decolonizing it ?
“Memory and Memoricide of the Land” will be the portal of curatorial ideas to reimagine the alternative form of museum.
The participating curators will research and explore the relations between museum and the land , memory and memoricide of the land, alongside their own curatorial practice on deconstruction/reconstruction of existing museum models including residency format.
They can also bring in a new idea and spotlight a specific aspect of the residency theme, “Memory and Memoricide of the Land”.
This research residency will be operated remotely ,fully on a digital platform.
“Memory and Memoricide of the Land” is a collaborative project by Yoko Negami from co・iki residency in Tokyo and Honggyun Mok ,a Korean curator. The participating curators/researchers for this research residency will be selected by the residency operators (Yoko & Honggyun) of “collective r and d”(*).
Below is the basic content of this residency.
- Exchange of Ideas : Participants will have weekly meetups to exchange ideas on a regular-basis.(on Zoom/Clubhouse -TBD after the selection)
- Research : Participants will make progress on their own research of “Memory and Memoricide of the Land” to reconstruct an alternative museum model throughout the residency period, consulting and discussing with other participants and curators(collective r and d*).
- Output : Participating curators/researchers will present their curatorial practice and upload the related essays online.
- Participating curators/researchers and organizers will use messaging apps etc, for daily conversations and idea exchange.
Participants: Independent Curators(up to 3 people)
Conditions:
- Participating curators/researchers will be selected via Open Call and invitation.
- A certain curatorial fee will be allocated to the selected.
Stipend: 200000KRW(around 170$)
- Participating curators/researchers can discuss with our fellow curators about the research & residency theme.
- The whole process will be operated by Yoko and Honggyun(collective r and d*) in cooperation with co・iki.
Schedule : * to be adjusted according to the situations
2021
Oct 2nd to 25th: Open Call
Deadline: October 25th(23:59 in Korean/Japanese Time UTC+9)
Oct 26th-28th: Selection
Oct 29th- Dec 15th: Residency (about 1.5 month,including the output)
Dec 1st — 15th: Output(Essays to be published online + 1 public online session)
Organizers:
Yoko Negami (co・iki,Tokyo）/ Residency Operator & Program Director
Graduated from the International Relations Course of Tsuda College in Tokyo.Studied at Wimbledon School of Art in London. She has initiated co・iki due to her interest in the ties between the individual and society, interdisciplinary processes and coexistence. Putting emphasis on Co-living and Co-creating, co・iki explores an alternative form of a residency program designed to build a bridge between numerous fields of art, culture and the wider sciences, connecting artists, experts and professionals.She also works in a wide range of fields from government led programs to entertainment events as well as community-building of online service development, further linking art with other areas of engagement.She now explores an alternative form of creator residency.
Honggyun Mok / Independent Curator
Director of Project. The Great Museum
Independent curator based in Seoul. Worked as a chief curator at Osan Museum of Art(2012–2015), participated in curatorial fellowship at De Appel Amsterdam(2018) and research residency at Tokyo Art and Space(2018), V&A London(2017). Curated <Private Song I>(DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, 2020>, <The City of Homeless>(Museum of Art Council Korea, 2016), <The Manual:Parts & Labour>(Osan Museum of Art, 2014) and participated <Works and Words: film and art from 1970’s Central Europe>(De Appel Amsterdam, 2018).
(*) collective r and d was originally created in 2018 by Honggyun Mok and Manique Hendricks as a loose research group. The year 2020 started to collaborate and invite Sofia Dourron as a researcher and for this project, Francis Annagu and Yoko Negami joined. “r and d” generally means research and development and for this project, its term could be extended as rethink and decentralizing/decolonizing. “
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Project. The Great Museum
The project title is from the book “Sociology of Symbolic Struggle; How does an artist change the world?” written by sociologist Kim Dong-il. The author pointed out how the museum has responded to social and political needs. In this book, the term “Great” is used for criticizing today’s art museum. Because museums have been considered injecting inequality, racism, injustices, and elitism. Nowadays museums were built based on a visionary plan for economic revitalization.
Many art historians said that museums are inherently colonial institutions. And it has been changed since it was born in Europe, there was a lot of social movement advocating the decolonization of museums and outstanding achievement as well. But still, remain which ought to be done. Not enough yet. That’s why this subject is still an important issue among artists and curators. On the other hand, it can be seen as banal because we encountered it a lot of times and easily feel fatigued without finding any clear answer due to its complexity. There is no one who is not related to this issue.
It can be expanded into the relation between the power possessor and the powerless or the intellectual and the opposite in an art global context. We all agree that a museum is not a place for people of privilege. But how we could implement what we thought it right and ethical. Let’s consider that we don’t need brick and mortar space anymore, then how we can realize and visualize it in a very idealistic way? In that context, museums can be a learning vehicle with its structure — archive, collection, education, exhibition, and residency. And when we think about museums and their structure beyond physical space we might find something great.
*This project is a work in progress planned to further development.
