SHARED ARCHIVES: DISCOVERY, TRIGGER, TRANSFORMATION
The research forum, ‘Re-inventing Archive: Design, Architecture, Visual Culture’ was held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA Seoul) on the 29th of November, 2019. The programme had a discussion session on the concept of archives and its associated methodologies, and a review session that reflected upon the meaning of contemporary publications that feature little or no archival work. This report focuses on the first session to examine the relationship between archives and exhibitions.
Exhibition Triggered by a Discovery
The first session under the theme ‘Exhibition, Archive, History Writing’ included the presentations by and discussions between three exhibition experts, followed by a
Q&A. The speakers were Yokoyama Ikko (lead curator, M+), Chung Dahyoung (curator, MMCA), Kim Sang-kyu (professor, Seoul National University of Science and Technology).
Yokoyama Ikko gave a presentation on the transnational archive of Asian visual culture, focusing on the collections of the M+ Scheduled to open in 2020 and 2021, the M+ is presently establishing one of the world’s largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture, with over 1,700 design and architectural collections and 30,000 archive collections. In the process of collecting this vast
