Theory and Practise in curating, a seminar with invited international guests. Urgent issues and social spaces in art.
For the practice of a curator, an essential question is related to the position of the curator as placed inside the existing division of art. The freelance curator that emerged in the late 1950’s, like Harald Szeemann and Seth Siegelaub, were quite aware of the gap described by Marcel Duchamp – the creative act. Duchamp claims that the work of art is not the sole making of the artist. The artist just delivers the raw material. The audience is playing the part of the finishing creator, the maker of the end result. A work of art therefore exists only in relation with a public and in public.
The creative act serves here as a hypothesis – which has to be tested. And artists and curators, in a mutual relationship where the border between these professions gets merged, do the testing. Curators play (in this ideal functions) the role of the mediator, putting the hypothesis in contact with an audience, which then function as the responder, maybe even as a testing ground for critical self-awareness. In this model the curator take part in the production line of art – on the same side of the creative gap as artists. They – as collaborative curators – are not the judgers of art anymore. They will also be working in a state of doubt and insecurity, where the exhibitions as such are depending upon the transformation from raw art (testing ground) to a completed work being performed by an audience.
The issues questioned in this seminar are located around the curator and her/his role as negotiator and mediator between the art/artist and society. Included in this query is the matter of responsibility: For whom is the curator responsible when political and other forces lay their heavy hand on projects in the public space, and censorship becomes the device? Or when the art/artist becomes squeezed between different, more or less powerful, articulations and desires?
Arbeidsform:
Seminar og work shop
Krav til forkunnskaper:
Opptatt ved Kuratorutdanningen
Kurset starter 23.11.2009 / Uke 48, og varer til 27.11.2009 / Uke 48
Sted: more info later
Tilbyder: Kuratorutdanningen
Målgruppe: Kuratorutdanningen
Årstrinn: Kuratorutdanningen
Antall plasser: 10
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