PLENARY DISCUSSION
Diskussionveranstaltung von VIDC und der Österreichischen UNESCO-Kommission:
Fünf Jahre nach der österreichischen Ratifikation des UNESCO-Übereinkommens ist es Zeit für eine Bestandsaufnahme. Was ist bisher geschehen – und was nicht? Welche Strategien und Methoden für Kulturkooperationen und Kulturaustausch werden für die Zukunft vorgeschlagen?
TeilnehmerInnen: Stefanie Carp, Norbert Ehrlich, Basma El Husseiny, Silvia Jura, Eva Nowotny, Clemens Mantl, Walter Posch, Norbert Riedl, Claudia Marion Stemberger.
KEYNOTE SPEECH
It's the job of the next generation of curators to see how performance works will be presented. – as acclaimed South African-born art historian RoseLee Goldberg puts it. And to continue Goldberg's claim: How might today's generation of curators present performance works from the southern hemisphere, respectively Africa?
CURATORIAL WORKSHOPS
As part of the effort to stimulate curatorial practice in South Africa, VANSA Westerncape in Cape Town is pleased to host curatorial workshops for young cultural producers. The curatorial workshops have been designed for early to mid-career visual-arts professionals working in South Africa. The project is specifically aimed at those who are interested in investigating the theory and practice of critical curating.
CURATORIAL WORKSHOPS
Participants: Maaike Bakker, Portia Malatjie, Nkosikhona Ngcobo, Monique Pelser, Murray Turpin, Ntando Xorile
Workshops facilitator: Claudia Marion Stemberger
CURATOR
In the context of global discourses of the present, proximity may be understood at most as a “relational category”. Subjects constantly negotiate closeness, since the latter always also includes distance. In addition to today’s information technologies, video art or performance art in particular are considered as artistic procedures that are seemingly able to overcome distance. But how do closeness and distance unfold in the present beyond spatial categories?
Live-art exhibiton curated by Claudia Marion Stemberger
CURATOR
Artists: Philippe Batka, Benjamin Eichhorn, Conny Habbel, Katharina Gruzei, Esther-Judith Hinz, Sven Johne, Eva Kot'átková, Zilla Leutenegger, Gerlinde Miesenböck, Monique Pelser, Safia Stodel, James Webb.
Curator: Claudia Marion Stemberger
PUBLIC TALK
Curatorship as a profession still is a relatively new specialization in the art world. But along with the increasing professionalization, the profile of the curator might not only define its resulting tasks, but also new hierarchies. While some curators seem to be aware of their powerful role and formulate a critical position within institutions, some curators still seem to reinforce a curator-as-superstar system. In this context, one might want to ask - what are the tasks of a curator?
Panelists: Riason Naidoo, Kathryn Smith and Claudia Marion Stemberger
CARTE BLANCHE
During my research project as curator-in-residence at the Bag Factory Artists' Studios in Johannesburg I investigate and present various forms of collaborative curatorship. As collective collaborations question hierarchies I offered FOTOGALERIE WIEN (Vienna, Austria) a 'Carte Blanche' for a video screening with artists that live in Austria. They work in a curatorial collective (artists and art historians) ever since their beginnings.
EXHIBITION WALK AND TALK
Join Philippe Batka, Benjamin Eichhorn, Conny Habbel and Claudia Marion Stemberger for a special tour of the Farewell to Longing exhibition at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich.
ARTIST'S TALK
Zilla Leutenegger will discuss her installation Library which is on view in the exhibition ANONYMOUS SCULPTURES. Video and form in contemporary art at Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol in Innsbruck, Austria.
CURATOR
Artists: Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tegan Bristow, Reshma Chhiba, Steven Cohen, Deadheat (Dorothee Kreutzfeldt & Bettina Malcomess), Hasan and Husain Essop, Gabrielle Goliath, Jessica Gregory & Zen Marie, Peter Van Heerden, Gerald Machona, Thando Mama, Nomusa Makhubu, Molemo Moiloa, Athi-Patra Ruga, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi, Minnette Vári, Amy-Jo Windt, Nelisiwe Xaba & Mocke J van Veuren.
Curator: Claudia Marion Stemberger
CURATOR-IN-RESIDENCE
The project Beyond Ethnic Marketing: Transcultural Strategies of Collaborative Curating aims to investigate and contextualise today's transcultural curatorial theories and tactics:
The objective is to develop a participatory platform in Johannesburg, South Africa that should scrutinize models of transcontinental curatorial discourses and collaborative curatorial practices that are equally informed of academic and artistic concepts.