Curatorial workshop - Exhibition as Site and Agent of Research
Handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth
23-26 June
The curatorial workshop “handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth” explores the contemporary art exhibition as both an object of study and as site, agent, and mode of knowledge in its own right.
Invited speakers: Nick Aikens, Anselm Franke, Catalin Gheorghe, Ola Hassanain, Laima Kreivyte, Steven Henry Madoff, Paul O’Neill, Noura Al Salem, Berit Schuck, and the curators and researchers of Qayyem. Organized in collaboration with Mick Wilson, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Venue: Online and Goethe-Institut (video conference).
Register here: https://exhibition.school
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CONFERENCE 9th Bucharest Biennale
27–28 June 2020 online
Contemporary Art Biennials—Our Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergency
Detailed info accessible here:
https://www.on-curating.org/issue-47.html
Biennials are big hegemonic machines. They make proposals about how to understand the world in which we live—locally and globally—, how to be in the world as a subject within a regional and national frame, and how race, class, and gender are positioned. As a result, biennials are part of a bio-political process in the framework of specific local situations. Biennials are deeply involved in politics of display, politics of sites, politics of transfer and translation, and they produce in each single case specific politics of knowledge. The scales of biennials are co-implicated not only with each other but also with different understandings of politics: contestation, resistance, dissent, hegemony, and empowerment.
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For this conference (also in times of crisis), we are not only interested in how content directly agitates, but also in the formats, ideas, and concepts that are delivered through the politics of display, through specific forms of production and dissemination, through proposed communities and subjectivities—the more subtle ways of the bio-political arena when we encounter art.
What forms can we use in states of emergency?
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In 2020, in the midst of a new form of crisis, one might feel a certain affection for “hegemonic machines” like biennials, which aim for an international discourse in a democratizing manner in a different light. With all its underlying problems (canonizing, hegemony, colonial pasts, dominant art market, political influences), biennials tend to establish international discourse, at best, rooted in local cultural specificities/identities. States of emergency also enable states to not only protect but also control their citizens.
Panel:
Oliver Marchart (Political theorist), Farid Rakun (Ruangrupa, Documenta fifteen) & Farah Wardani (Jakarta Biennale), Nora Sternfeld (Documenta Professor), artistic intervention by Delia Popa, Ioana Leca (Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art), Vasyl Cherepanyn (Head of the Visual Culture Research Center / Kyiv Biennial), Martin Guinard (Taipei Biennale), artistic intervention by Diana Dulgheru, Beat Wyss (Art Historian),
Patrick D. Flores (Singapore Biennale 2019), Ekaterina Degot (Steirischer Herbst)
Yung Ma (11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale), Mirjam Varadinis (Kunsthaus Zürich, Manifesta Palermo), Shwetal Patel (The Kochi—Muziris Biennale), artistic intervention by Diana Dulgheru.
Online and at the Goethe-Institut (video conference) and open air streaming. The conference can be accessed via Zoom from everywhere. You can use your phone to access the live stream once registered.
The conference is organised by Dorothee Richter and Ronald Kolb alongside the 9th Bucharest Biennale directed by Henk Slager
The online conference is supported by Goethe-Institut, The Suisse Arts Council ProHelvetia, and Zurich University of the Arts.
