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>  RADICAL COMPLICITIES: CURATING ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY
>
> Saturday 1st May 2010, 10:30am - 6pm (registration 10am - 10.30am)
>
> Early booking recommended.
>
> Speakers: Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig), Nav 
> Haq
> (Arnolfini, Bristol), Maria Lind (Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
> College, USA), Sarah Lowndes (Independent Curator, Glasgow), Bojana 
> Pejic
> (Independent Curator, Berlin)
> Introduced and chaired by Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd (The
> University of Edinburgh)
> Organised by The University of Edinburgh and presented in partnership 
> with
> the National Galleries of Scotland, this conference brings together 
> leading
> figures in the field to consider the potential and limitations of 
> recent and
> emergent curatorial paradigms in contemporary art.
> Over the past two decades, curators have risen to a new level of 
> prominence
> in the artworld, challenging received hierarchies to define the 
> narratives
> that frame our understanding of what art is and what it can do. During 
> this
> time we have also witnessed an expansion of curatorial practice,
> contributing to shifts within art, its institutions as well as the 
> broader
> social developments which have marked the transition from the 20th to 
> the
> 21st century. Does this expansion of curating correspond to new, 
> radical
> forms of agency in contemporary culture or is it complicit with a new
> administrative regime? Reflecting on practices not necessarily 
> sanctioned,
> or indeed visible, through the institution, this one-day event with
> international and local speakers will discuss a range of approaches and
> geographical perspectives.
>
> Venue: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Gallery Complex, The 
> Mound,
> Edinburgh
>
> Tickets: £8/£5 concession (students) available from the information 
> desk at
> the National Gallery Complex or call 0131 624 6560 9:30am - 4:30pm,
> Monday-Friday. Early booking recommended.
>
> Information: www.curatingart.wordpress.com
> <http://www.curatingart.wordpress.com/>
>
> Beatrice von Bismarck is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture 
> at the
> Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Her current research areas include: 
> modes of
> cultural production connecting theory and practice, definitions of 
> artistic
> work, curatorial practice, effects of neo-liberalism and globalisation 
> on
> the cultural field and postmodern concepts of the Œartist¹. From 1989 
> to
> 1993 she worked at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische 
> Galerie in
> Frankfurt am Main as curator of the Department of 20th-Century Art. 
> From
> 1993 to 1999 she worked at the University of Lüneburg. Since 2000, von
> Bismarck has been the Program Director of the Leipzig Academy¹s 
> gallery, in
> the year of its re-opening she conceived a programme of exhibitions and
> events titled ³Grenzbespielungen. Performativität und Übergangszonen²
> (2001/2002). Contributors included Ursula Biemann, Roger M. Buergel, 
> Harun
> Farocki, Christian Jankowski, Monika Löw, Gordon Matta-Clark, Angela
> Melitopoulos, Christian Philipp Müller, Ruth Noack, Walid Ra¹ad, Gerald
> Raunig, Juliane Rebentisch, Oliver Ressler, Irit Rogoff, Martha Rosler 
> and
> Hito Steyerl. In 2000 co-founded of the project-space
> Œ/D/O/C/K-Projektbereich¹. In Autumn 2009, she initiated the M.A. 
> programme
> ŒCultures of the Curatorial¹.
>
> Nav Haq is Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini in Bristol, where he has 
> worked
> on developing the contemporary art programme since early 2008. He 
> curated
> the 3rd Contour Biennial for Video Art, Belgium, in summer 2007
> (www.contour2007.be <http://www.contour2007.be/> ), and was also 
> previously
> a Guest Editor at Book Works, London, for whom he commissioned the 
> artists
> Olivia Plender and Rosalind Nashashibi to produce new artist¹s books. 
> From
> 2005-2007 he was the curator at Gasworks in London. Haq is also the
> co-curator (with Tirdad Zolghadr) of the long-term research project 
> Lapdogs
> of the Bourgeoisie, investigating the subject of class hegemony in
> contemporary art. He developed his curatorial approach through 
> professional
> experiences at organisations including the Whitechapel Gallery, 
> London, and
> Spike Island, Bristol. Haq has contributed to numerous art magazines
> including frieze, Keleidoscope and Bidoun, and is one of the Editors 
> of the
> biannual journal Concept Store published by Arnolfini.
>
> Maria Lind has been Director of the Graduate Program, Center for 
> Curatorial
> Studies, Bard College, USA, since 2008 and was the 2009 recipient of 
> the
> Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. From 2005 to 2007 she 
> was
> Director of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in
> Stockholm. From 2002 to 2004 she was Director of Kunstverein München 
> where
> together with a curatorial team she ran a programme involving artists 
> such
> as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic,
> Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. From 1997 to 2001 she was 
> curator at
> Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2,
> Europe¹s biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet
> Projekt, Maria worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions 
> realised in
> a temporary project-space, within or beyond the museum in Stockholm. 
> Among
> the artists were Koo Jeong-a, Simon Starling, Jason Dodge and Esra 
> Ersen.
> She also curated What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design,
> filtered by Liam Gillick, for Moderna Museet as well. Maria has 
> contributed
> widely to art reviews and periodicals as well as to numerous exhibition
> catalogues and other publications. She has recently co-edited Curating 
> with
> Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle 
> Kunst),
> Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in 
> Contemporary
> Art (Blackdog Publishing) as well as the report European Cultural 
> Policies
> 2015 (IASPIS and eipcp, Vienna) and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the
> Documentary and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press).
>
> Dr. Sarah Lowndes is a lecturer, curator and writer based in Glasgow.
> Lowndes is a lecturer in the Historical and Critical Studies 
> Department at
> Glasgow School of Art, where her research focuses on artist-led 
> projects,
> interdisciplinary and performance-related practice and contemporary 
> art. She
> has contributed to Frieze, the Frieze Yearbook, Artforum, Art on Paper,
> Untitled, Circa, MAP, 2HB, Spike Art Quarterly and Afterall and to
> catalogues for international institutions. A revised and expanded 
> second
> edition of her book Social Sculpture (2004), which documented the 
> Glasgow
> art and music scene since the 70s, will be published in 2010. She 
> curated
> Three Blows, a weekend of all-sound acoustic performance by 
> contemporary
> visual artists and musicians, set in St. Cecilia¹s Hall in Edinburgh 
> (2008),
> co-organised the symposium Subject in Process: Feminism and Art (2009),
> curated the international group exhibition Votive at CCA, Glasgow 
> (2009) in
> co-operation with Glasgow Museums, and curated the performance event
> Urlibido, which highlights stagecraft influences in the work of seven
> contemporary women artists, for Glasgow International 2010.
>
> Bojana Pejic (b. 1948) is a curator and art historian based in Berlin. 
> She
> received her PhD from Karl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, 
> having
> first studied History of Art at Belgrade University. She was a curator 
> at
> Belgrade University¹s Student Cultural Centre from 1977 to 1991, when 
> she
> organised many exhibitions of Yugoslav and international art. From 
> 1984 to
> 1991 she was an editor for the art theory journal Moment in Belgrade. 
> In
> 1995 she organised the international symposium The Body in Communism 
> at the
> Literaturhaus in Berlin. She was chief curator of the landmark 
> exhibition
> After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, organised by 
> the
> Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999), which toured to the Museum of 
> Contemporary
> Art Foundation Ludwig in Budapest (2000) and Hamburger Bahnhof in 
> Berlin
> (2000-2001). In 1999 she was one of the co-curators of the exhibition
> Aspects/Positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Ludwig 
> in
> Vienna. Bojana was chief curator of the October Salon in Belgrade in 
> 2008.
> She recently curated Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the 
> Art of
> Eastern Europe, a major group exhibition and research project, 
> showcasing
> work from 24 post-socialist countries. First hosted by MUMOK Vienna, 
> the
> exhibition is currently shown at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in 
> Warsaw.
>
>
> ANDREA MACDONALD
>  
> Website:   www.andreamacdonald.co.uk
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