NJP Reader #8 – Future Museum: Public to Commons

Nam June Paik Art Center hosted the 2018 International Symposium, ‘The Gift of Nam June Paik 10’ from October 12th to 13th under the title, Future Museum: From Public to Commons. The international symposium series, ‘The Gift of Nam June Paik’ also welcomed its 10th anniversary and it has been designed to review the past decade of Nam June Paik Art Center.

Experimenting the ‘commons model’ as a new ontology to unfold as well as a communication method, the symposium initiated from thinking about ‘after the future’, and examined the political, aesthetic, economic and technical conditions necessary to become the commons, and further discuss the practical measures of the commons movement, currently occurring in the art scene worldwide.

The outcomes of the symposium are presented in the form to be shared by anyone and will be rich sources for thinking about a future museum. According to Nam June Paik, thinking about the future is the role of the artist. Ultimately, anyone can think about the future and be an artist.

Table of Content
Foreword ― Jinsuk Suh
Future Museum: Public to Commons ― Sooyoung Lee

Part I
ARTCOMMONS. The Legacy of Nam June Paik for the Museum of the Commons ― Massimiliano Mollona
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Community, The Common, and Art ― Seon Ryeong Cho
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Art as Commons, Museum as Commons ― Jinkyoung Lee
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A Future Museum: The Commons of Germs, Worms and Humans ― Taehun Lim
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Art in the Hell ― Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’
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Part II
Non-binary Futures ― Taeyoon Choi
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How do the Commons Look like?
An incomplete story from a slow metamorphosis of becoming Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons ― Binna Choi

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From Living Room to Gudskul ― Ade Darmawan
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The Publicness of Post-public: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Petition 4 art, Commoning ― Sohyun Park
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