- Curatorial Practice -

Friday 4th March 2011 - 7pm

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Lecture by Oliver Kielmayer

Curatorial work between action and reflection

Oliver Kielmayer presents samples of his curatorial work as a result of problematic preconditions. With a very practical attitude, a selection of projects is described from a problem solving point of view; this authentic genesis of curatorial work is then confronted with the needs of curatorial discourse. The aim is to show the essential ambivalence that is crucial for successful curatorial work: It is always based on the thorough analysis of a given situation but must then be followed by a theoretical reflection.

Oliver Kielmayer is currently the director of Kunsthalle Winterthur.

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White Space // Office for Curating / Art / Theory
Programming: Dorothee Richter, Siri Peyer
Militärstrasse 76
(Zugang über Kanonengasse neben Restaurant Hot Pasta)
CH - 8004 Zürich
www.whitespace.ch

Curatorial Practice is a series of talks organised in cooperation with
Postgraduate Program in Curating
Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
www.curating.org

good cop bad cop present:

featuring special guest Mike Pearson

Chapter arts centre, market road, canton, Cardiff

Saturday 26th February, 2011, 8.00pm, £10 / £8 / £6

In the early 20th century William Haggar, a travelling entertainer from Essex settled in Wales and unwittingly helped to transform live entertainment into the ‘cultural industries'.

With their unique brand of ‘propositional performance', good cop bad cop draw on reports of Haggar's long lost films to evoke an era of artistic and commercial experimentation.

At a time when films could be advertised by length in feet, a Burry Port shipwreck could pass as newsreel of the Titanic and assaulting the police could pass as a comic act.

Things could have turned out very differently.....

for furhter information about Phantom Ride, GoodCopBad Cop, Mike Pearson . . .READ MORE

- Curatorial Practice -

Friday 25 February 2011 - 7pm

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Lecture by Yilmaz Dziewior

What are the current needs?
Possible differences between Kunstverein (art club) and Kunsthalle (exhibition hall)

In his talk Yilmaz Dziewior will examine different modes and formats of curating in relation to the needs of current cultural production. During his directorship at the Kunstverein in Hamburg he worked not only with visual artists like Andrea Fraser, Cildo Meireles and Haegue Yang but also with architects and people from theatre and music. He will discuss earlier projects of his and some of his plans for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, where he is the director since October 2009. Also in Bregenz he will continue to examine the relation of visual art to other cultural and social fields.

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The Fourth Conversation Kitchen takes place on 17 February from seven o'clock. Live performances by Robin Deacon (UK) and Ulla Hvejsel (DK). With presentations by Open Dialogues (UK) and Christian Falsnaes (US / AT).

Plus workshop with Mary Patterson the weekend after - 19th/20th of February.

For documentation of earlier events check Youtube

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reproductions
sharon kivland
guest: benjamin swaim
10.2.11 - 11.3.11
opening 10.2.11 - 5pm

in collaboration with french institute in bratislava

sharon kivland will exhibit recent works that draw on her archive of
magazines, prints, publicity leaflets or objects, and advertising from
different eras. kivland employs the movement and displacement of ideas,
words, images, and objects. connections are woven in series, using strategies
of appearances, disguise, impersonation, vulgar copying, subtle dialogues,
intimate suggestion, and a lack of historical fixity.

for further information & gallery news . . . READ MORE

and/or check the website: amt_project

Diego Castro, Protest, 2009, pencil drawing on A4 paper

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Boaz Arad & Miki Kratsman, Ariella Azoulay, Diego Castro, Francesco Finizio,
Thomas Galler, Roee Rosen, Anna Witt, Hannes Zebedin
Collection of Rudi Maier: „So geht Revolution" - Advertising & Revolt

5 February - 26 February 2011
Opening: Friday 4 February - 6pm
Opening hours: We: 3 - 6pm / Fri, Sat: 2 - 6pm

For furter information about contents, venue etc . . . READ MORE

check also : the  project blog

and lern more about White Space

- Curatorial Theory - Friday 24. September 2010. - 7pm

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Lecture by Marcus Steinweg:

Curating Incommensurability
Art is the opening up toward incommensurability. Its aim is forever to render the incommensurable commensurable, to lend form to the formless; and that makes art a paradoxical praxis. The resistance art offers to the commensurable has nothing to do with escapism. Rather, it seeks to define the relation to reality (to what already exists) with greater precision by being resistant to it, an act that helps the subject make contact with what marks reality's boundary and its inconsistency. The demystification of the world has led to the mystification of the demystified reality. Enlightenment has engendered its own obscurantism. Facts are the new religion. Facts are essentially consistent and reliable. That is the meaning of the word and its function: to ensure familiarity. The opening toward the incommensurable, by contrast, is an opening toward unfamiliarity as a value of the world, an opening toward its inconsistency, which encompasses its contingency and its becoming, its invisibility and its slippage, its indisponibility and its insignificance.

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