SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT

  About the International Summer School “Curating in Context” 2021 The Lokomotiva team is pleased to announce the start of the second edition of the Summer School “Curating in Context” that offers critical reflection on diverse socio-political and economic contexts, as well as the possibility to develop curatorial methods to rethink the practices of contemporary (performing) arts in relation to activism, self-organization, and critical thinking. Thematically, “Curating in Context” is related to the question of the curatorial and its extended understanding, which goes beyond black or white box presentation and representation politics. The school analyzes the environment in which art is produced and disseminated, and it focuses on the creation of knowledge and opportunities for practitioners who want to pursue their career as curators in the field of performing arts and interdisciplinary approaches. Curating in Context criticall...

Abstracts on different sessions of the summer school programme, reading titles related to seminar topics, lectures, workshops and other presentations.    LECTURE: Idiot Bliss: Charles Ray’s Plank Piece I-II (1973)/  by Dominic Johnson , Head of the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London Abstract: Charles Ray’s Plank Piece I-II (1973) stages a critical encounter between sculpture, performance art, and photography. The work is exhibited widely, but the precise means by which Plank Piece I-II makes – or forecloses – meaning has never been adequately accounted for. For Ray in the 1970s, the works ‘ha[d] no meaning — or rather their meaning is dynamic,’ and when he made such claims, “my friends laughed at me and said, “You idiot, it looks like the aftermath of a car wreck or a Goya print”.’ In an experiment in art writing, I pursue Ray’s ‘idiotic’ invocations, reading Plank Piece I-II in relation to car crashes, images of torture, the then-recent American War in...

/македонски подолу/   INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL “CURATING IN CONTEXT” 2021/Online 29.08.2021-04.09.2021   OPEN CALL   Curating in Context offers critical reflection on diverse socio-political and economic contexts, as well as a possibility to develop curatorial methods to rethink the practices of contemporary (performing) arts in relation to activism, self-organization and critical thinking. Thematically, Curating in Context is related to the question of the curatorial and its extended understanding which goes beyond black or white box presentation and representation politics. The school analyzes the environment in which art is produced and disseminated, and it focuses on creation of knowledge and opportunities for practitioners who want to pursue their career as curators in the field of performing arts and interdisciplinary. Curating in Context critically reflects on the perspectives of producing, advocating, initiating diverse models of presentin...