In this seminar students from all semesters and disciplines were introduced to central discussions traversing the concept of the curatorial. We explored the thinking about the relationship between curating and the curatorial, notions of the thing, questions of space, and the creation of knowledge on site, as well as the roles that transdisciplinarity, transculturality, situatedness, and the public moment play in the construction of the field of the curatorial as producer in-between theory and practice. This seminar was intended for all of those who had an exhibition, publication or presentation project in mind, were planning one or were already involved in conceptualizing and realizing one. Beyond reading and discussing texts, we conducted two external visits and devoted time to individual projects.
Readings and Sources
- Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski (eds.) (2012): Curating / Curatorial – A Conversation between Irit Rogoff and Beatrice von Bismarck, in: Cultures of the Curatorial
- Irit Rogoff (2006): Smuggling – An Embodied Criticality
- Maria Lind (2012): Introduction, in: Performing the Curatorial
- Arjun Appadurai (2006): The Thing Itself, in: Public Culture
- Dorothee Richter (2020): (NON-)THINGS or Why Nostalgia for the Thing is Always Reactionary, in: Issue #09 Herri, English translation by Judith Rosenthal
- Dorothee Richter (2016): (Un)Dinge, oder warum die Sehnsucht nach dem Ding immer reaktionär ist, in: Interdisziplinäres Ausstellen, eds. Sabine Fauland, Österreichischer Museumsbund, Vienna (slightly modified version for Herri)
- Walter D. Mignolo (2013): RE:EMERGING, DECENTRING AND DELINKING Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing, in: Ibraaz 005
- Mignolo, W. (2011): Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing. On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience, transversal 01/12: unsettling knowledges. Eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
- Pierre Bourdieu (1989): Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. in: Dünne, Jörg / Günzel, Stephan (Hg.) (2006): Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, p. 354
- Raqs Media Collective (2010): On Curatorial Responsibility, in: The Biennial Reader, ed. Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Øvstebø, p. 276–292
- Henri Lefebvre (1974): Die Produktion des Raums, in: Dünne, Jörg/ Günzel, Stephan (Hrsg.), Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften (2006), p. 330.
- Alana Lockward (2013): Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics, in: Decolonial AestheSis, in: Social Text online
Excursions
- Ré-imaginer le passé, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
- Radical Playgrounds, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (Parking area)