Artists and Curators Talks with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragičevič

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 Artists and Curators Talks with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragičevič  

Topic Tags: Non-hierarchical collaboration curating curatorial disciplines

 

  • Non-hierarchical approach in collaboration: switching roles, distribution of powers
  • Laurie Anderson's advice on classifications: never call yourself by one name, open possibilities by calling yourself a multimedia artist
  • Curating as taking care and opening spaces
  • Space as a vulnerability that can be accessed and shared
  • The curatorial is not a position or roleplay, it’s a function that can rotate
  • Curating means – what are methods and platforms through which autonomy can exist?
  • How can you make sure that someone can tell their story, access their story and experience?
  • What is artistic knowledge and how do you produce something like that? What is the reaction/reception to the method?
  • How do we get out of ‘disciplines’? The idea of the non-disciplinary.
  • How can we resist the temptation to format what we want to show too early?

Jan Verwoert's text on 'Exhaustion and Exuberance: ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform"

http://whyiseverybodybeingsonice.deappel.nl/concrete/index.php/chapters/exhaustion-exhuberance/ways-defy-pressure-perform

Reference and link from Darko Dragičevič:  

jan verwoert ‘exhaustion and exuberance: ways to defy the pressure to perform’

http://whyiseverybodybeingsonice.deappel.nl/concrete/index.php/chapters/exhaustion-exhuberance/ways-defy-pressure-perform


Darko Dragičević is a Belgrade born, Berlin based visual and performance artist. He works on interdisciplinary projects and cross-media collaborations as the expanded practices within the fields of visual arts, performance, choreography and film. His most recent projects include choreographies I am now... infinity with J. Založnik (premiered in January 2020 in Kino Šiška Ljubljana), Tonträger with M. Sonderkamp (premiered in February 2019 at Open Spaces Tanzfabrik Berlin), site-specific interventions Failure as Practice (presented: November 2019 CoFestival Ljubljana, July 2019 Open Spaces Sommer Tanz Festival Berlin) and 2 books: Failure as Practice (published in March 2019 by Goethe-Institut Serbia) and The Readymades with J. Holten (re-issued in September 2019 by Broken Dimanche Press).  This year Dragičević is collaborating with Christina Ciupke, Jasna Layes Vinovrški, Siri Jøntvedt, Jasmina Založnik, Martin Sonderkamp, Zeina Hanna on different projects and he is an Artistic Director and Editor of the project Lie & Theft as Practice done in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in Belgrade. Dragičević teaches at institutions such as DOCH - School of Dance and Circus/Stockholm University of the Arts, ZZT Centre for Contemporary Dance/HfMT Cologne, Folkwang University Essen, Tanzquartier Vienna and Y-Institut/Hochschule der Künste Bern. He studied Film and Television Production at New York Film Academy in New York City and Visual Arts at The International College of Arts & Sciences in Milan where he earned a BA in Visual Communication and an MFA in Visual Arts.


Martin Sonderkamp is a dancer and choreographer and lives in Stockholm and Berlin. Since 1995 he has been creating choreographies and performances for stages, but also for museums and galleries in Europe, Russia, Asia and the USA. His interest in the ecologies of collective work is rooted in a transdisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice. It explores the interplay of different approaches, roles and methods in the fields of dance, visual arts and experimental music, drawing on the translation of performance scripts and choreographic scores using a variety of media, materials and formats. His ongoing collaboration with visual artistic Darko Dragicevic include Tonträger (2019), A Collective Body (2018), Sonic Extensions (2017) and Approximations (2015). Based on re-constructing Anna Halprin's City Dances, he was a collaborating choreographer in City Dances Cologne, DE (2016) directed by Stepahnie Tiersch. In 2012, with choreographer Vera Sander, he conceptualized and curated the alterable, participatory exhibition Social Movement at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, DE.


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