Kunsthalle Fridericianum and Postgraduate Program in Curating, zhdk Zürich, are hosting the symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? on Friday, 26 and Saturday, 27 March, 2010.
The two-day symposium intends to put the possibilities, opportunities as well
as the limitations of current critical curating up for discussion based on the presentation of exemplary projects, curatorial programmes, theoretical analyses and artists talks. The symposium will focus on art institutions, exhibition formats and exhibition paradigms. It will include presentations and discussions and additionally serve as a communicative platform enabling curators, students, scholars and artists to engage
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Programme
Friday 26 March 2010
11.00 Accreditation
12.00 Welcome Rein Wolfs / Dorothee Richter, Introduction
12.30 Oliver Marchart, The Politics of Biennialisation
13.30 Dorothee Richter with Damian Jurt, Irene Grillo, Maren Brauner
Postmodern Education. Round and Round it Goes Where it
Stops Nobody Knows
14.30 Visit Thomas Zipp's exhibition (WHITE REFORMATION CO-OP)
MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO at Kunsthalle Fridericianum
& lunch
16.00 Maria Lind, Contemporary Art and its Institutional Dilemmas
17.00 San Keller, Pre-, Pre-, Pre-, Preview / Rein Wolfs
18.00 Break
18.30 Carina Plath, From Curatorial Studies over Kunstverein to
Sculpture Projects and Museum. Curatorship between Liberties,
Conditions and Conservation.
19.30 Panel 1, Curatorial Appeal:
Yael Eylat Van-Essen (Curatorial Studies Program, School of Arts
and Technology in Tel-Aviv), Critical Curating
Marysia Lewandowska, Renée Padt (Konstfack Stockholm),
Museum Futures: Distributed, DVD, 2008
Lisa Le Feuvre (Goldsmith College, London), Bureaucracy and
Despair
Olga Fernández López (Royal College of Art, London), Just What
is it That Makes ‘Curating’ so Different, so Appealing?
Sissel Lillebostad (Creative Curating, Bergen, Norway), Who is
the Audience?
Tim Brennan (University of Sunderland, MA Curating),
Curator: Medium
With participants from different curatorial programmes:
Curatorial Programme De Appel, Amsterdam, École du Magasin,
Grenoble and Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zurich a.o.
Moderation: Beryl Graham
Saturday 27 March 2010
9.30 Welcome Rein Wolfs / Dorothee Richter, Introduction
10.00 Helmut Draxler, Ecstasy in Mediation
11.00 Axel Wieder, Institutions and Crisis
12.00 Giovanni Carmine / Hassan Khan, Possible Encounters
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Stella Rollig, Legitimating
15.00 Stih & Schnock, Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes
16.00 Break
16.30 Søren Grammel, A Series of Acts and Spaces
17.30 Panel 2, Educational Critique: How to Swot Curating
Isin Onol invites to talk about curatorial study programmes:
Hyunjoo Byeon, Lisa Boström, Övül Durmusoglu, Alhena Katsof,
Natalie Hope O'Donnell, Alessandra Sandrolini, Andrea Roca,
Adnan Yildiz with participants from different curatorial
programmes: Curatorial Programme De Appel, Amsterdam and
Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zurich.
Key themes: Franchising the curatorial study programmes,
curatorial production in the nomadic era, critical and collective
curating, educational institutions designed for curating.
Moderation: Maja Ciric, Isin Onol
18.30 Comments & Conclusions
Location: documenta-Halle, Du-Ry-Straße, Kassel
Accreditation under symposium(at)fridericianum-kassel.de until 17 March 2010
Fee for drinks and snacks incl admission to Kunsthalle Fridericianum:
1 day: 15 Euro, students 10 Euro, free of charge with annual ticket
2 days: 25 Euro, students 15 Euro, free of charge with annual ticket
In cooperation with Postgraduate Program in Curating
