20th and 21st of March 2015 Migros Museum
Curating everything (Curating as symptom)
Dorothee
Richter in cooperation with Alena Nawrotzki
/ Migros Museum Gegenwartskunst
Cooperation partners: Research Platform for
Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural Studies, Practice-Based Doctoral
Programme, University of Reading, Fine Art Department of Art and
Postgraduate Programme in Curating, www.curating.org ICS, ZHdK
The ironic title “Curating Everything” proposes already to read the activity of Curating as a social symptom. We presume that the contemporary urge for a curatorial position has an imaginary side: the wish to gain authorship and agency as an illusionary closure in an overall unsteady and precarious labour situation for cultural producers.
Undoubtedly CURATING is a new discursive formation, as defined by Michel Foucault, which has rapidly developed since the 1970s. This new profession has as its main tasks the production, the distribution and the reception of cultural meta structures through the combination of cultural products like art works, publications, film or performance programmes, sound projects, digital media or projects in public space, a single project often consists of a
media-conglomerate. Also it instituted a now hierarchical formation, when taking over the creative side of organising projects and shows from the self-organisation of artists’ communities in the 60s.
In this conference we put an emphasis on the interrelation of CURATING as a meta-discourse and a cultural production with post-Fordist societies. We would like to discuss curating in relation to changes in image production, to changes of experiences of distance and modes of perception, changes in the conception of subjectivity and communities, changes in ways of circulations of images and changes in digital and material infrastructures. We would like to
question curating in respect to topics of race, class and gender.
What can we propose as a critical attitude in curating achieved through ruptures, gaps,inconsistency, failures and dissent? All speakers share an interest in political agendas in artistic and curatorial practices.
Exhibition
at ZHdK opening Friday evening curated by Elke Krasny
Suzanne
Lacy’s International Dinner Party in feminist curatorial thought
Susanne
Lacy
Red Min(e)d
Queering
Yerevan
Aktion
Arkiv
radical
practices of collective care