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> From: Art&Education <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1 May 2009 04:45:15 BST
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> Subject: Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
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> 04/30/09
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> Gwangju Biennale
> International Curator Course
> August 24 - September 20, 2009
>
> Dead line for application: May 15, 2009
>
> http://www.gb.or.kr/open.html
>
>
> Sponsored by The Gwangju Biennale Foundation, The Metropolitan City
> of Gwangju
> Chaired by Yongwoo Lee
> Directed by Byungsoo Eun (Artistic Director, 2009 Gwangju Design
> Biennale) Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, 2010 Gwangju
> Biennale)
> Visiting Professor: Barbara Vanderlinden
>
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> The Gwangju Biennale Foundation sponsors the first edition of
> International Curator Course in Gwangju from August 24 to September
> 20, in collaboration with worldwide colleges running curatorial
> studies. The Course will offer the opportunity to 25 young curators
> from all over the world to work with an internationally renowned
> visiting professor and curators, dealing with many challenging issues
> of theoretical and practical aspects of curatorial research, and
> reviewing the contemporary art as a broadened terrain of culture.
>
> Structure
> The Course consists of lectures, seminars, workshops and practice in
> preparation of Gwangju Biennale and Gwangju Design Biennale, with an
> intensive schedule of classes and curatorial administrations led by
> the visiting professor as well as presentations of the participants'
> projects, and visits to artists, designers, museums, galleries and
> related institutions.
>
> The objectives of curatorial course are aiming to:
>
> - promote reflections questioning the role of the curator, and
> research projects in the field of contemporary visual culture
> - set up working platforms that may enable participants to develop
> further curatorial works
> - proliferate networking between young creators of the visual art
> scene and encourage international circulation of cultural projects
>
> Contents
> Themes examined during three weeks of lessons will be: concepts of
> "cultural hybrid," "aesthetic groundedness," "terrain," and the
> cultural topology and its relations between East and West; the role of
> museums and alternative spaces; the question of history and its
> redefinition; and the relations between art and its audiences will be
> included along with themes.
>
> Visiting Professor
> Barbara Vanderlinden is internationally renowned curator, author and
> founding artistic director of Brussels Biennial, Belgium (2008) and
> founding director of Roomade, Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels.
> She has curated numerous exhibitions including in 1999 Laboratorium
> (with Hans Ulrich Obrist), Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg in 1998 (with
> Maria Lind and Robert Fleck), Revolution/Restoration in Brussels in
> 2002 and Do You Believe in Reality? Taipei Biennial (2004). She is
> Chief Editor of The Manifesta Decade, Debates on Contemporary Art
> Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe, Cambridge, MA:
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
>
> How to Apply
> Interested applicants from any nationality may apply. No study
> certificate and academic degree required. Lectures and seminars will
> be delivered in English. The screen committee consisting of Yongwoo
> Lee, Byungsoo Eun, Massimiliano Gioni, Barbara Vanderlinden, and
> Sunjung Kim will select from the applications. The application form
> must be posted by May 15, 2009.
>
> The applications must include:
> 1. Application form
> Name:
> Surname:
> Date of birth:
> Place of birth:
> Citizenship:
> Male/Female:
> Postal address:
> E-mail:
> Phone:
> List of studies /work experiences:
> (Please attach your detailed CV to this form.)
> 2. A copy of the most relevant published texts and reports of
> realized curatorial projects.
> 3. A motivational statement illustrating the applicant's interests
> and explaining the reason for the application (max. 5.000 characters.)
>
> The selected applicants will be contacted via email by the end of May
> 2009. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation will sponsor tuition and
> accommodation during the International Curator Course. Selected
> applicants will be responsible for travel from place of residence to
> Gwangju and back, and meals. The material sent for the application
> will not be returned. According to regulation of the Course, personal
> data of the applicants is exclusively used for the Course selection
> procedures and not communicated to others.
>
> SUBMIT BY POST OR EMAIL TO:
> Exhibition Department /Gwangju Biennale Foundation
> 211 Biennale 2 Gil, Buk-Gu, Gwangju, 500-070, KOREA
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Info: Gwangju Biennale Foundation + 82 62 608 4233
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