This article was written by ICOM UK’s Student and Emerging Professional Group.
Museum Talk
Despite a slow recognition of exhibition production and knowledge-making as collective efforts, the critical role of arts administrators and their support systems remains underexplored and often sidelined in contemporary art. This oversight persists as these roles fall through the cracks between various disciplines that are often considered more ‘serious’.
Over the past two decades, however, the function of the arts administrator has significantly evolved in response to the demands of contemporary art-making and knowledge production. For the ICOM Student and Emerging Professionals session in January, Nana will examine this transformation through case studies from the Taipei Biennial. Her talk will highlight how arts administrators are emerging as co-development stewards, driving change in an increasingly complex, fast-paced and multi-stakeholder production landscape.
Repositioning arts administrators as infrastructural and impactful, she will address key questions: How can we reimagine their role? What catalysed this shift, and how has it reshaped the support systems for art-making and knowledge production?
Speaker: Dr. Nana Yu-I Lee
A multihyphenate, Dr. Nana Yu-I Lee is a cultural strategist, researcher, communications consultant and art writer. She is a Senior Researcher at Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy (TFCC). Prior to that, Nana was Senior Account Director at Sutton PR HK office and former Head of Communications and Digital at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Taking a transdisciplinary approach informed by theories and practices in arts management, museum studies, curatorial studies and cultural policy, her research and writing focus on the infrastructural significance of arts administrators and cultural practitioners in catalysing change. She has a PhD in Art, Design and Museology from UCL.
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