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International Curatorial Workshop:
Curating on the Move – Taipei Biennale 2020
Martin Guinard, Taipei Biennale, TNUA Taipei, ZKM, Stephane Verlet Bottero, Hongjohn Lin, Ming Tiampo, Hadas Kedar, Katlin Erdodi, Students from TNUA, ZHdK, HongKong City University, University of Reading.
Whether as a free curator, artist, cultural producer of events or in an institutional position, curating has positioned itself worldwide as a powerful agent in social transformation processes, as it increased the awareness and understanding of social situations and demands, of conflicts and negotiations.
In our globalized cultural world, a strong knowledge of artists and cultural practitioners working in diverse geographical, cultural and social contexts is a central requirement, and therefore, a vibrant net of international practitioners as well as the knowledge and the experience to move in such an international situation is pre-condition in every contemporary curatorial practice. Successful curators as practitioners and researchers are those who are able to initiate, manage, communicate, and implement such projects. Consequently, it is important for universities worldwide teaching curatorial practice, to offer to their students the necessary skills to engage with an international network as well as with an international audience.
[…] This fosters trans-local and transcultural learning in real-life local contexts through a series of practice projects and knowledge production (workshops and conferences), which also reflect on positions and relations in the arts art in society as well as on social situations in the respective environment.
In these contexts, special attention has to be paid to context awareness, decolonization processes, working with complexity and inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches.
For this workshop, we will research on the geo-political and geo-historical
themes of the 2020 Taipei Biennale by the curators Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard-Terrin and look into Taipei’s well-known, and not so known artistic practices and its place in a globalized art world.
We also want to establish written contributions for an OnCurating Issue on the topic of Curating on the Move. This issue will be published at OnCurating.org and as a book on demand.