SEMINAR – Suzana Milevska: Becoming-Curator vs. Becoming a Curator

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SEMINAR – Suzana Milevska (North Macedonia): Becoming-Curator vs. Becoming a Curator

Abstract: 

Topic Tags: Curating curatorial curator offspring curatorial agency

In recent times, curating has provided a point of cross-disciplinary interchange between several distinguished disciplines and professions that deal with art. The courses and university departments that initially taught curating as a subject mainly focused on its practice, but such a dichotomy no longer exists now that curating is taught as a subject or course in many different departments and universities, and the term itself is used in a much broader terms. This presentation will therefore address the question how the concept of curatorial relates to both the theory and practice of curating.

I want to argue that “curatorial” and “curatorial knowledge” have advanced into terms that encompass the condition in which philosophy, theory and epistemology are intertwined and produced a new discourse and culture that are not limited to understanding of curating as merely theory or practice. I will focus on the Deleuzian concept of “becoming” in the context of the self-differentiation and self-actualisation of an art curator. I particularly intend to discuss the conundrums that stem from the event(s) of “becoming-curator”. The main challenge is to unravel how a person knows what he or she knows as a curator, and how one reconciles the differences and contradictions between “being-curator,” “becoming a curator” and “becoming-curator.” I will also address some related empirical issues such are the problem of historicising curating while attempting to understand curatorial and the differences between the role of the independent curatorial practice and the institutional(ised) one.


  • The self as an offspring event, instead of an essence
  • Teaching, production, epistemology as events from which you become the offspring
  • Becoming curator as feminist becoming
  • Curating as practice and the curatorial as disturbance
  • Becoming subject/curator is not about creating new identities, more about expressing differences without overwriting them
  • Becoming curator as a way to destabilize, deconstruct and decolonize knowledge
  • Curatorial agency: embed in your practice and produce (art is agency)
  • Discussion terms related to: space, conflict, institutions, trauma, violence.
  • How does art history relate to theory and practice of curating?
  • How did the pandemic affect my curating?
  • What do space and institutions mean when we can’t be in them?
  • How do you access locality when it’s not there?


Document with Excerpts, references and quotations:
1. Introduction: Philosophical, epistemological and institutional definition: Jean Paul Martinon, The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
2. Philosophical ignition: Deleuze, Gilles/Guattari, Félix 1987, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. London: The Athlone Press, p. 291.
3. Feminist commentary on Deleuze based on: Colebrook, Claire (1999): “A Grammar of Becoming: Strategy, Subjectivism, and Style.” In Elizabeth Grosz (ed.): Becomings – Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
4. Personal becoming: Suzana Milevska, “With Special Thanks To: A Balkan Curator in First Person Feminine,“ Open Space Journal, 2013.

http://www.openspace-zkp.org/2013/en/journal.php?j=3&t=9

Suzana Milevska_abstract_becoming_readings.pdf

 

PRESENTATION from the Seminar by Suzana Milevska

Suzana Milevska Becoming-Curator Vs. Becoming A Curator last with images.pdf


Suzana Milevska is a theorist and curator of visual art and culture. From 2016 to 2019 Milevska was Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 project TRACES, Polytechnic University Milan, and she curated its final exhibition Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects. She was Endowed Professor for Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Art Vienna (2013 - 2015). She curated numerous international exhibitions such are The Renaming Machine (2008-2011), Roma Protocol, Austrian Parliament, Vienna, and Call the Witness, BAK Utrecht (2011). She initiated the project Call the Witness–Roma Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2010-2011). In 2015 she curated the exhibition Inside Out: Not So White Cube, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana (with Alenka Gregorič). She holds a PhD in visual cultures from Goldsmiths College London and she was Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. In 2012 she won Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. She published the books Gender Difference in the Balkans, 2010, The Renaming Machine: The Book, 2010, and On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency, SternbergPress, 2016.


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