artists who read Workshop in Summerhall This week I led an art writing workshop for the artists who read club in the collective space, extending my own personal practice through leading a workshop while also exploring the role of workshops as part of the programming for my ISCP. Whilst the workshop was focused on […]
a trimmed tree is no place for song birds Much of my time this week has been spent preparing the exhibition of CAP students Ellie and I are curating. As such, I have been reflecting on the urge/decision to include ephemera from these artists’ practices. The making visible of this artistic research (including sketches, material studies, […]
Call drawing by Marie Béney, from Bernard, Romane, et. al. “Now Imagine That We Are a Village” in Reckitt, Helena and Richter, Dorothee. eds. ‘Instituting Feminism.’ On Curating 52 (2021), pp 141-145. This week, I have been thinking about the emphasis on dialogue and community that is so central to the project — and […]
Publication as Practice Intersecting with this week’s lecture theme, a key focus of mine is to flesh out the publication as a curated object to temporally extend and conceptually expand upon the physical project. An initial concept is to publish conversations held between the artists in small zines that are highly distributable and to employ […]
Try to praise the mutilated world (wip title) My proposed curatorial project will involve an outdoor public art exhibition alongside programming including music performances, a panel discussion, a reading group, and publication. The project offers cross-cultural dialogues to explore the ways in which identity and culture in diasporic experience is enmeshed in the folklore, […]
APTART In further research into curatorial practices this week I came across the APTART “anti-shows” that were put on in the early 80s in Moscow.1 While these were in direct response to a political and art ecosystem that only provided exhibition opportunities for Social Realist works, this self-organizing group reflects the power of alternative exhibition […]
Ji Jū Collective This week we met to draft a mission statement and outline our curatorial ethics manifesto, a practice that highlighted the rich opportunities and difficulties of working in a collective. When faced with differing opinions, such as how we feel about AI usage or artists’ pay, it was at times difficult to reach […]
Following this week’s seminar, I have begun considering how I would define my curatorial ethics. I was really struck by Dr. Meng Shi-Chen’s conclusion in his essay “Ethics of Curating”, that the goal of an ethics of curating may be “to empathetically uncover the hidden knowledge swept under the carpet, making the invisible visible, without […]
This week I want to start getting the ball rolling on developing curatorial themes beyond just methods of engagement & curation — in that vein, a first idea is an exhibition in which all work has to be made within the ‘gallery space’ throughout the duration of the show, shifting the gallery into a shared studio […]
This has been a fun week of jumping right into the world of curating. One of the highlights of the readings for this week was Ana Bilbao’s essay on micro-curating and SVAOs. I have always had a bias towards the DIY and the freedom that being independent permits; while they admittedly appeal […]
