PRESS RELEASE

Thursday, 08 October 2020
Online event | General Public
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8 PM (Manila)
9 PM (Seoul)
1 PM (UK)
8 AM (Toronto)

Cross-continental Conversations in The Cone of Uncertainty is a panel conversation gathering four curators from across the globe involved in mounting exhibitions of artist Haegue Yang, to speak about the challenges of producing exhibitions during a pandemic and amidst global turmoil. The discussion will also comment on how the current situation has affected art and other cultural institutions in their own contexts (Europe, Asia and North America), and the responses made by their local community.

The conversation features Jihoi Lee, Curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea; Adelina Vlas, Associate Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada; and Anne Barlow, Director and Curator at Tate St Ives in Cornwall, UK. Joselina Cruz, Director and Curator, at the DLS-CSB Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines, will be moderating the panel conversation.

The event will be streamed live on our Facebook channel on Thursday, 08 October 2020, 8PM [GMT +8]

About the Discussants

Jihoi Lee 
Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Jihoi Lee is a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea. At MMCA, she curated O2 & H2O, a solo exhibition of artist Haegue Yang as part of the annual MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020; Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future in 2019, an architectural intervention at Deoksugung Palace and MMCA Seoul’s front yard with five architects active in Asia: Bureau Spectacular, 3L3, OBBA, Obra Architects, and Space Popular. In 2018, she organized The Essential Duchamp exhibition with Matthew Affron presenting approximately 150 collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She also curated Beka & Lemoine: Through the Lens of Domesticity, a mini-retrospective of architectural filmmakers Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine. She hosted Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity a symposium and a publication project with e-flux Architecture in 2017, with authors including Cathrine Malabou, Yuk Hui, Mark Wasiuta, and Arisa Ema. Also in the same year, she curated an exhibition of Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler), Three Ordinary Funerals at the first Seoul Biennale of Architecure and Urbanism. She was the Curator of a three-year research project with Kyong Park, Imagining New Euraria from 2015 onward at the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju. She was the Deputy Curator and Managing Director for Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula for the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, which received the Golden Lion. Lee also was the Associate Curator for Before/After: Mass Studies Does Architecture at PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecure, Planning and Preservation in the City of New York, and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Image Courtesy of the artist

Adelina Vlas
Associate Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

Prior to joining the AGO in 2014, Adelina Vlas held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Canada, where she concentrated on permanent collection displays and special exhibitions. She holds a Master’s Degree in curating contemporary art from the Royal College of Art, a Master’s Degree in art history from York University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from McGill University. Vlas’s area of specialty is post-war contemporary art with a focus on conceptual and time-based media practices. 

Source: https://ago.ca

Anne Barlow
Director and Curator, Tate St Ives, UK

Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives, where she most recently curated exhibitions with artists Otobong Nkanga, Huguette Caland, Amie Siegel and Rana Begum. She was also co-curator of Naum Gabo: Constructions for Real Life (2020) and collaborating curator with Castello di Rivoli, Turin for Anna Boghiguian at Tate St Ives (2019).  

She was previously Artistic Director, Tate St Ives (2017–2018), Director, Art in General, New York (2007–2016), Curator of Education and Media Programs, New Museum, New York (1999–2006), and Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Glasgow Museums, Scotland (1994–1999). Across these roles, she has led on programmatic and institutional vision, and overseen collection displays, artist residencies, new commissions, public programmes, and numerous international collaborations. She also initiated award-winning programmes including Museum as Hub (New Museum) and the What Now? symposia (Art in General), and curated exhibitions with artists including Dineo Seshee Bopape, Donna Huanca, Adelita Husni-Bey, Marwa Arsanios, Basim Magdy, Jill Magid and Shezad Dawood.  

Barlow has published with Tate, the New Museum, Henry Moore Institute, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Sharjah Art Foundation among others, and was Curator of the 5th Bucharest Biennale, Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and a guest programme curator for The Jerusalem Show VII and the 2nd Tbilisi Triennial, Georgia. She has acted in an advisory capacity to organisations including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C. and New York State Council on the Arts, and as a jury member for the kim? Residency Award, Latvia; Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; MAC International 2018, Belfast; and the British Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale. 

Image Courtesy of www.tate.org.uk

About the Exhibition

MCAD’s upcoming exhibition, The Cone of Concern is the first solo exhibition in the Philippines of celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea), who lives and works between the cities of Seoul and Berlin since the mid-nineties. One of the most widely shown artists of her generation in the world today, Haegue is known for producing a form of conceptual language and an aesthetic vocabulary that is uniquely interwoven. To learn more on the exhibition, click here.

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