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Lecture Series 2010: Contemporary Curatorial Practices #2
Internationally-active artists and curators, as well as dynamic display formats, are currently characteristics of the latest in artistic productions; but what effects do these new exhibition formats produce?
This is the question Platform3 will raise in the second part of its lecture series Contemporary Curatorial Practices throughout the year 2010. This programme has been conceived in cooperation with ifa-galleries Stuttgart and Berlin. Our guests are international curators and artist collectives working in Turkey, France, South Africa and Romania. Their lectures will cover curatorial approaches and present actual exhibition projects with regards to the respective on-site working conditions. Contemporary Curatorial Practices offers Munich -based cultural workers and people interested in the arts to experience curatorial visions firsthand.
Lectures take place at Platform3, Munich: Free admission.
OUR PAST LECTURES:
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March 24, 2010, 7 pm, Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey)
In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart.
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April 7, 2010, 7 pm, Campement Urbain: Sylvie Blocher and Francois Daune (France)
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May 5, 2010, 7 pm, Gabi Ngcobo (Southafrica)
In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart. -
May 26, 2010, 7pm, Cosmin Costinaş (Rumania / Netherlands)
In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart.
OUR PAST LECTURES:
March 24, 2010, 7 pm
Övül Durmuşoğlu (Turkey)
Can the issue of difference be a more mass-produced item than a Starbucks latte in our times?
Interested in how difference-minded thinking can end up in invisible separations, Övül Durmuşoğlu will open up the background ideas, notions and images of her coming project Another Country at ifa-gallery Stuttgart.
Istanbul based, Durmuşoğlu conducted the EXOCiTi series of talks and (street) performances and coordinated Radikal Art: Face to Face billboard project for Radikal newspaper. She has been awarded the Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize for young curators (2008) for her project Data Recovery. Durmusoglu is currently a guest in Akademie Schloss Solitude and collaborates with IFA Stuttgart for the exhibition Another Country.
April 7, 2010, 7 pm: "Wasted time" in the process of Campement Urbain
Campement Urbain: Sylvie Blocher and Francois Daune (France)
Founded in 1999 by visual artist Sylvie Blocher, Campement Urbain is an interdisciplinary collective that sets up its logic according to each project's specificity. Advocating "non-specialised" ways of approaching public space, Campement Urbain invents temporary initiatives in places such as Sevran (France) or Tiradentes (Sao Paolo, Brasilien). Its participatory projects have been exhibited at 2003 Venice Biennial and at Centre Pompidou, Paris. Currently, Campement Urbain implements the project The Panthers of the Future - The Future of the Panthers in Penrith, Australia.
May 19, 2010, 7 pm
Gabi Ngcobo (Southafrica)
"Please Remove Your Shoes"
“Please Remove Your Shoes,” a series of lectures by Gabi Ngcobo will shed light into issues of migrations, traversing large and small territories, local and global in attempts to map out, from a South Africa perspective, artistic and curatorial trends that have emerged in the last few years. The lectures will also focus on her collaborative practice and curatorial strategies she has experimented with both in South Africa and elsewhere.
Gabi Ngcobo is an independent curator, writer and artist from Durban, South Africa. She has worked as Assistant Curator at the South African National Gallery and co-curated Cape Africa Platform’s CAPE 07 exhibition where she also worked as Head of Research and was instrumental in initiating Cape’s Young Curator’s Programme. Other exhibitions include Olvida quen soy/ Erase me from who I am co-curated with Elvira Dyangani Ose, Khwezi Gule and Tracy Murinik for CAAM, Canary Islands, Las Palmas 2006, Titled/Untitled, a curatorial collaboration with Cape Town collective Gugulective and Scratching the Surface Vol.1 a “manje-manje projects” initiative at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town. Recently she co-curated rope-a-dope: to win a losing war with Sohrab Mohebbi at Cabinet, New York city. She is the co-founder of collaborative platform manje-manje projects (m-mp) and co-founded “Third Eye” a collective of artists operating in Durban between 2000 -2005.
Ngcobo is currently completing a masters program at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.
In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart.
Cosmin Costinaş (Rumania / Netherlands)
Cosmin Costinaş will discuss the issues surrounding the realization of two of his curatorial projects, Like an Attali Report, but different: On fiction and political imagination at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, in the summer of 2008 and After the Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography in given places at Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in late 2009. Costinaş will look at theintellectualand contextual premises behind the projects, at the questions and dilemmas that came along during the work, as well as at the curatorial methodology employed.
Cosmin Costinaş is a curator and writer currently working at BAK - Basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (NL). He recently curated the exhibition Surplus Value by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor, and co-edited the first monograph on the artists’ work. Co-editor of several magazines and advisory board member for PATTERNS of ERSTE Foundation, Costinaş worked for venues like Kadist Foundation (Paris), Documenta 12 (Kassel) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam).
In cooperation with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., ifa-Galerie Stuttgart.
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