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The MMCA Performing Arts 2022: The Museum-Carbon-Projectis a reflective program in the form of a series of multidisciplinary events, all of which question how we should respond to climate change in the Anthropocene. As a start, it calculates the amount of carbon emitted at every step of creating an exhibition at the MMCA. Individual projects have been developed in connection with these activities of exhibition-making, with the hope of forming an arena where people from different disciplines can come together to share their concerns and start a discussion.
Until now, we have only evaluated an exhibition based on its aesthetic achievements, its impact on the ecology of art, the number of visitors, and the level of visitors’ satisfaction. We have neglected the environmental effects created in the course of putting together an exhibition. Climate change caused by greenhouse gasses looms as an ever-growing problem all across the world, meaning we can no longer overlook the environmental consequences of creating an exhibition. Given this reality, what are the perspectives and attitudes we must adopt to face this problem? What must our judgment criteria entail and how can we transform our concerns into discourse?
Issues of climate change or carbon emissions are by no means a simple problem that can be easily solved. Although the Anthropocene, climate change, and carbon emissions are real phenomena that we can no longer ignore, they are also “hyperobjects” that are too large and convoluted to be grasped as a whole; they are, in essence, parts of a complex problem that concern the entire human race. That is why the MMCA Performing Arts 2022: The Museum-Carbon-Projectdoes not simply aim to reduce the quantitative amount of carbon emissions at the museum. Rather, this project suggests we see climate change and carbon emission as a process of addressing problems about the human community and expanding the ways we sense the present time. Discussions around climate change and carbon emissions reflect our epistemological perspective on the times we are living in, through which we can derive various discussionsand projects.
A wide range of projects (presentations, discussions, workshops) have been developed, each dealing with different activities involved in exhibition-making. These exhibition-related activities include the production of artworks, business trips for the preparation of exhibitions, packaging and transportation of artworks, construction of exhibition spaces, production of PR materials, energy use in exhibition spaces, transportation of visitors, and disposal of exhibition waste. Some projects within this program will share their process and results with the public, while other discussions or pre-programs will remain undisclosed. There will also be workshop programs where visitors can participate firsthand. Just as climate change and carbon emissions are leading to complex and diverse responses all around the world, the MMCA Performing Arts: The Museum-Carbon-Projectstrives to reflect on the complexity of the present situation and to imagine the future at the same time, as opposed to mechanically producing solutions. In an era of noticeable climate change—in addition to the intricate dilemma that exists between energy, the environment, and the economy—an art museum must also ponder the quintessential nature of art. The MMCA Performing Arts 2022: The Museum-Carbon-Projectwill not be a vehicle to generate schematic outcomes, but instead be used as an arena of contemplation that questions and examines what role museums should play in the Anthropocene, while also serving as a type of preliminary preparation for sustainable exhibition-making in the future.


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  • The MMCA Performing Arts 2022:
    Museum-Carbon-Project
    2022.8.19.–10.30.
  • MMCA Seoul
    03062, 30, Samcheong-ro,
    Jongno-gu, Seoul
    +82 2 3701 9500
  • Organized by
    MMCA
    Sponsored by
    The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Korea
  • In cooperation with
    ECOEYE
    Supported by
    MOORIM PAPER