Dorothee Richter with Damian Jurt, Irene Grillo, Maren Brauner
Postmodern Education.
Round and Round it Goes Where it Stops Nobody Nows
If the freelance curator inhabits a hybrid role, oscillating between different positions in a practice conditioned by impermanence, performativity and transitoriness, the critical potential of his or her practice lies in its freedom to continually reformulate the constellation of operations on the one hand and positions on the other. So the tactical use of the institutions by cultural producers and by engaged counterpublics, which has been in evidence since the early days of modernism is based in a double-agency that this activity demands- in working with and against an institution, which may be also the case for curatorial programs and the pedagogic challenges which are posed (in different ways) both to lecturers and participants.
With contributions about projects by alumni of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zurich. Damian Jurt: Curation of the Loge, Berne. Irene Grillo, Maren Brauner: Kunstpassanten.
Dorothee Richter is an art historian, author and curator. She is Director of the Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute Cultural Studies, Universtiy of Fine Arts, Zürich. She was a member of the research group Exhibtion Display, between 1999 and 2003 she was Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus in Bremen, Germany, where her curated program of projects, exhibitions, talks and symposiums have explored amongst others the issues of socially engaged practice, feminist positioning today and artistic collaboration. She has lectured at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, the University of Bremen, the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia course at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts Geneva and at the University in Lueneburg. She has collaborated with Barnaby Drabble on projects under the title Curating Degree Zero, from 1998 to 2009. In 2008 she initiated the web-journal www.on-curating.org.
www.curating.org
Postmodern Education.
Round and Round it Goes Where it Stops Nobody Nows
If the freelance curator inhabits a hybrid role, oscillating between different positions in a practice conditioned by impermanence, performativity and transitoriness, the critical potential of his or her practice lies in its freedom to continually reformulate the constellation of operations on the one hand and positions on the other. So the tactical use of the institutions by cultural producers and by engaged counterpublics, which has been in evidence since the early days of modernism is based in a double-agency that this activity demands- in working with and against an institution, which may be also the case for curatorial programs and the pedagogic challenges which are posed (in different ways) both to lecturers and participants.
With contributions about projects by alumni of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zurich. Damian Jurt: Curation of the Loge, Berne. Irene Grillo, Maren Brauner: Kunstpassanten.
Dorothee Richter is an art historian, author and curator. She is Director of the Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute Cultural Studies, Universtiy of Fine Arts, Zürich. She was a member of the research group Exhibtion Display, between 1999 and 2003 she was Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus in Bremen, Germany, where her curated program of projects, exhibitions, talks and symposiums have explored amongst others the issues of socially engaged practice, feminist positioning today and artistic collaboration. She has lectured at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, the University of Bremen, the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia course at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts Geneva and at the University in Lueneburg. She has collaborated with Barnaby Drabble on projects under the title Curating Degree Zero, from 1998 to 2009. In 2008 she initiated the web-journal www.on-curating.org.
www.curating.org
