DEC13_SUPERDUPERFINAL

Museum Management Projections
from the Pandemic
June 19, 2021
This offering with moderator Maria Rosario “Rica” Estrada, head
of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Visual Arts and Museum
Division (CCP VAMD) were with resource persons June Yap of the
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Nikita Yingqian Cai of Times
Museum.
June Yap shared that they now saw the value of allowing for a virtual
experience in exhibitions seeing as planned exhibitions were affected
and there is a need to make connection in disconnection. Yap
believed that digital platforms will have a bigger role and only time
will tell if we keep the changes or we revert back to conventions,
although transitioning was considered. Nikita Yingqian Cai of
Times Museum, on the other hand, discussed a different kind
of institutional landscape. She talked of a long term strategic
planning of the organization from a great leap forward to low-end
globalization, “the transnational flow of people and goods involving
relatively small amounts of capital and informal, sometimes semilegal
or illegal transactions, often associated with ‘the developing
world’ but in fact apparent across the globe.” She said that this
affirms the global hierarchy and can initiate an exchange network.
Cai concluded with a comment on the break out from the temporal
spatial constraints, negotiating positionality in friction and thematic
online journals. Estrada contextualized the inputs with emphasis
in putting value into the curatorial work and for organizations to
go digital, especially given the uncertainties we need to deal with
now. She assessed that it might be a good time for the opening
of small spaces, engaging the public through different events and
most especially reducing the carbon footprint of biennales and art
festivals.
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