World of Art, School for curators and critics of contemporary art, Year 14
Series of public lectures on curatorial and institutional practice
Sonke Gau and Katharina Schlieben:
Work to do! Or Caught between two stools: Questioning Production Conditions
Lecture

Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6 p. m.
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

One of our questions is how to negotiate and to bring into the arena of curating the invisible, the marginalised, the immaterial, or the ephemeral. This is again connected to the political issue of representation: Who and what is represented and how does it come into the fore? How to define the means of representation, how to create and form methodologies of visual translations for ephemeral practices and long-term processes? A reflection on institutional framework conditions, namely of conditions under which research-based, participatory, socially-engaged and context-related art production takes place today in connection to funding criteria is of particular importance in relation to the question of representation. The funding situation and production conditions of the project series Work to do! Self-Organisation in precarious Working Conditions could be described as ‘Caught between two Stools’ and demands ‘more work to do!’.

Lecture will be held in English language.

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The lecture is a part of the joint project ATOM² (A je TO! uMetnost, phAntom TO Mindset),  in which we collaborate with the Postgraduate Curatorial studies of Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts (Zürich Art University).

Supported by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.

[Published January 1, 2012]