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Art Space Typologies: Probing a Moving Target from the Global East

The spate of “museum boom” in East Asian metropolises, which Western popular media recently highlighted, is still a little-researched moving target. Rem Koolhaas had presciently called a “relentless building” and “maelstrom of modernization” that “seems to be least understood at the moment of its apotheosis.” This talk will take on such a very moving target at the moment of its apotheosis and share an ongoing research at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art specifically located in the Global East. How do these visible proliferations of art spaces in the past two decades relate to the urban transition taking place in cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore? What do the palettes of art spaces that physically manifest the cities’ arts ecologies reflect the shifting functions of art in their social contract? What are the specificities that distinguish these recent developments from those in the developed political economies largely of the West? How does the museum, for example, an institution and architectural type that exemplified the largely Western modernity, inflect in recently developing and particularly economically transitioning contexts of the non-West, thereby confounding the very definition of the type itself? What could be added to the existing theories of “culture-led developments”? And how does architecture and urbanism as discipline have the unique capacity to ask fundamental questions to interrogate existing presumptions? These questions will be discussed in this talk.