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Curatorial Events and Dialogues

The research consists of a series of curatorial events and dialogues with related publications, and is constituted around the question of how today’s artistic materials enact a specific understanding of knowledge, which remains accumulative and ‘outside’ of naming. The curated events were: ‘Strategies of Delegation’ (book: ‘The Surface/The Project’); ‘Another Album’ (20th March 2009); ‘an InviTe For mAking OrnAmentS’ (9th October 2009); ‘RESIDUAL versus EXCESS’ (27th November 2009); ‘DREAM READINGS between OLIVIA PLENDER and UNNAR ORN’ (4TH November 2009); ‘In Conjunction with’ (1st May 2009); and ‘Film: juxtapositions’ (12trh December 2009). The project invests alternative forms of shared cultural production and dissemination (trialogues, seminar and counter-seminar, and minute-events). Curating is considered both a way of delegating and of constituting a context in which concepts are processed as open material in a particular spatial setting. The curatorial programme aimed at establishing a micropolitics, cultural transactions and ‘ephemeral knowledge’ operating outside mainstream art economies. The publication ‘E:vent’ also brought into play questions of archive and the ‘residual’ of a project. The significance of this investigation lies in affirming the complex and unresolved relation between ‘art’ and ‘knowledge’, and explores how this duality becomes particularly apparent in the alternative art context. Considering recent debates on art research and knowledge production in visual arts (Sarat Maharaj, Irit Rogoff), the project’s acknowledgement of artistic knowledge explicitly links such debates with the shifting status of alternative art spaces. Related curatorial projects include co-editing the books 'A Brief History of Curating New Media Art - Conversations with Curators' and 'A Brief History of Working with New Media Art - Conversations with Artists’ (The Green Box, Berlin 2010).