Dear All, I am organizing a conference in Zurich, with the migros museum
ruer Gegenwartskunst, the last panel will be considering Digital Media in
a variety of forms and content, best, Dorothee
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Limmatstrasse 270, CH–8005 Zurich
www.migrosmuseum.ch
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Symposium: Curating everything (Curating as symptom)
Dorothee Richter, Postgraduate Programme in Curating in cooperation with
Alena Nawrotzki, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Cooperation partners:
Research Platform for Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural Studies,
Practice-Based Doctoral Programme, University of Reading, Fine Art
Department of Art and Postgraduate Programme in Curating,
www.curating.org, ICS, ZHdK
Speakers:
Inke Arns, Sebastian Baden, Ursula Biemann, Ellen Blumenstein, Sergio
Edelsztein, Felix Ensslin, Frederikke Hansen, Fatima Hellberg, Elke
Krasny, Marsha Meskimmon, Katharina Morawek, Dorothee Richter, Axel Wieder
Schedule: (details below)
Friday, March 20th, 1pm–5pm, plus: Exhibition Opening “Suzanne Lacy's
International Dinner Party in feminist curatorial thought“, ZHdK, 7pm
Saturday, March 21st, 10am–7:15pm
The ironic title “Curating Everything” proposes already to read the
activity of curating as a social symptom. We presume that the contemporary
urge for a curatorial position has an imaginary side: the wish to gain
authorship and agency as an illusionary closure in an overall unsteady and
precarious labour situation for cultural producers.
Undoubtedly CURATING is a new discursive formation, as defined by Michel
Foucault, which has rapidly developed since the 1970s. This new profession
has as its main tasks the production, the distribution and the reception
of cultural meta structures through the combination of cultural products
like art works, publications, film or performance programmes, sound
projects, digital media or projects in public space, a single project
often consists of a media-conglomerate. Also it instituted a now
hierarchical formation, when taking over the creative side of organising
projects and shows from the self-organisation of artists’ communities in
the 60s.
In this conference we put an emphasis on the interrelation of CURATING as
a meta-discourse and a cultural production with post-Fordist societies. We
would like to discuss curating in relation to changes in image production,
to changes of experiences of distance and modes of perception, changes in
the conception of subjectivity and communities, changes in ways of
circulations of images and changes in digital and material
infrastructures. We would like to question curating in respect to topics
of race, class and gender.
What can we propose as a critical attitude in curating achieved through
ruptures, gaps, inconsistency, failures and dissent? All speakers share an
interest in political agendas in artistic and curatorial practices.
Friday, 20th of March, 1–5pm
1–1:45pm // Dorothee Richter „Curating – politics of knowledge production“
1:45–2:30pm // Sergio Edelsztein “Are boycotts the new ‘Collective
Curating’?”
2:30–2:45pm // Break
2:45–3:30pm // Sebastian Baden „Terror Worldwide? Curating after the
Stockhausen-Syndrome“
3:30–4:15pm // Katharina Morawek “Involvements”
4:15–5pm // Panel „Curating and politics“
Exhibition Opening at ZHdK Gallery, Friday, 7 pm:
“Suzanne Lacy's International Dinner Party in feminist curatorial
thought“,
curated by Elke Krasny, with: Aktion Arkiv, Queering Yerevan, radical
practices of collective care and Red Min(e)d;
ZHdK Gallery 1 + 2 (E05_5.K09 / E04_4.K13), Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstr.
96, 8005 Zurich
Saturday, 21st of March 10am–7:15pm
10–11am // Felix Ensslin „Material and Thought: Contemporaneity and The
Thing(s) of Curating”
11–11:15am // Panel Introduction/Moderation: Elke Krasny
11:15–12am // Marsha Meskimmon „Feminism’s ‚Curatorial Turn‘: What, Why
and Whither?”
12–12:45pm // Frederikke Hansen „The Drive to Remember: Kuratorisk
Aktion’s Curatorial Engagement with Invisibilized Coloniality and
Indigineity in the Nordic Region and beyond”
12:45pm–1pm // Break
1–1:45pm // Fatima Hellberg „Transformations – or how to deal with affect
and method“
1:45–2:30pm // Panel „Feminist Turn in Curating“, moderated by Elke Krasny
2:30–3:30pm // Break
3:30–4:15pm // Axel Wieder „Critical Populism“
4:15–5pm // Ursula Biemann „Making the World Matter“
5–5:45pm // Inke Arns „Curating (in) a
Post-digital/Post-media/Post-Internet World”
5:45–6:30pm // Ellen Blumenstein „The Curator and Her Double: The Cruelty
of the Avatar“
6:30–7:15pm // Panel „Curating/the public (and digital media)”
Theoretical Outlines
Dorothee Richter
Felix Ensslin
Curating and politics
How does art and curating interfere into the ideological sphere? How to
make politics with curating? And what problems does this present?
Sergio Edelsztein
Sebastian Baden
Katharina Morawek
Feminist Turn in Curating
The panel discusses the implications of a feminist turn in curating. What
are the historical legacies of feminism? How do feminist, queer feminist,
postcolonial, and critical theories and practices intersect with regard to
curating? What are the possible feminist curatorial futures?
Elke Krasny
Marsha Meskimmon
Frederikke Hansen
Fatima Hellberg
Curating / the public (and digital media)
What does the public mean in relation to curating? How to work with
publics? And what does digital media offer in the relation to the new
relation of space and time? Anything, anywhere, anytime?
Axel Wieder
Ursula Biemann
Inke Arns
Ellen Blumenstein
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Dr. Dorothee Richter
Head of Postgraduate Programme in Curating
Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts
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Zurich University of the Arts
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
Postfach, 8031 Zürich
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www.curating.org study programme
www.on-curating.org webjournal
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www.gasthauszumbaeren.ch venue
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Am 18.03.15 11:26 schrieb "Suzy" unter <[log in to unmask]>:
>Dear List,
>
>I would like to share a valuable contribution from Prof David Garcia,
>Digital Arts & Media Activism, Bournemouth University.
>
>I look forward to hearing your thoughts. : )
>
>Suzy
>
>On 16 Mar 2015, at 15:36, David Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Suzy, I wanted to contribute to the Terminology thread in your
>>notes
>> from the Emerge meeting. This part of the discussion focuses on the fact
>> that something about the digital revolution has made it harder to
>>categorise
>> practitioners in the creative sector. Where once we would have spoken
>>easily
>> about artists, illustrators or designers we now have to work with a more
>> expanded hybrid, boundary crossing vocabulary.
>>
>> I think that Simon who declared that he was "interested in how artists
>>are
>> currently self-identifying. We increasingly see a range of titles beside
>> that of Œartist¹ in the biogs of artists. At a recent talk, Dave
>>Griffiths
>> introduced himself as a Œgeneralist¹. Dave describes himself as an
>>artist,
>> director and inventor and mentions Liam self identifies as a creative
>> practitioner, hacker, maker, artists or all or any of these. Danny
>>mentions
>> artists and digital creatives.
>>
>>> While artists themselves seem comfortable with using multiple titles,
>>>it does
>>> raise some interesting questions about the term 'artist', what it
>>>covers and
>>> what it doesn't and what understanding and expectations industry
>>>partners have
>>> of the role and process of the artist in collaborative art/digital
>>>industry
>>> projects?"
>>>
>> I agree with Simon that this is important because the change in
>>terminology
>> points to a deeper change. I would argue that it is indicative of how
>>the
>> persistant concept of the *Creative Industries* in conjunction with the
>>fact
>> that for more than two decades courses of media art and design are no
>>longer
>> locked into single media crafts; e.g. painting, sculpture, film,graphic
>> design, or web design etc means that we have seen the emergence an
>>employment
>> cultural landscape made up of networks of interdisciplinary General
>>Purpose Creativity companies.
>>
>> These companies and other organisations frequently use digital media as
>>a
>> catalyst for cross platform hybridity. The general acceptance of this
>>kind of creative
>> hybridity is reflected in the currency of a term designating a new kind
>>of
>> professional: *the Creative*- a term that, these days, frequently
>>displaces
>> -artist or designer- Our acceptance of hybridity as a fact of
>>proffessional
>> life is the basis of the new MA that Neal and I have been developing for
>> Bournemouth.
>>
>> A symptom of this has been the recent decision of Central St Martins to
>> develop of all things an MBA. It would have once seemed absurd to have
>> instituted an MBA in an art school but these days it is seen as simply
>>a logical
>> consequence of the commodification of the concept of creativity. The
>> question is does this attempt to capture and commodify digital cultures
>>mean
>> that the radical potential of this movement is now extinguished. In an
>>article here:
>>
>>http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/notes-towards-reframing-creative-
>>que
>> stion/ I have attempted to demonstrate that this is not neccessarily the
>> case.
>>
>> David Garcia
>>
>>
>>
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