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Saturday, 20.02.2016

 

2016 / 201602 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
New Series:
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)

Alan Roth, Dimitrina Sevova
 

[English below]

Eine unregelmässige Veranstaltungsreihe mit Vorträgen und Gesprächen im Corner College 2016.

Kuratiert von Dimitrina Sevova in Zusammenarbeit mit Alan Roth

Organisiert von Corner College


The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) ist eine neue, unregelmässige Veranstaltungsreihe mit Vorträgen und Gesprächen, die die kuratorische Wende, Ausstellungspraktiken, die bisweilen die Vorstellung einer Ausstellung sprengen, von Künstler_innen performierte kuratorische Praktiken, sowie die performativen Möglichkeiten des Kuratorischen jenseits einer klarer Programmierung und eines museologischen Rahmens, kritisch hinterfragen. Sie fragt danach, wie die politischen und ästhetischen Möglichkeiten des Diskurses praktisch gemacht werden können, und sucht nach einem neuen Wortschatz, um darüber nachzusinnen, was aus der Sichtweise von Künstler_innen und deren Ausstellungspraktiken und kuratorischen Unterfangen eine Ausstellung sein könnte.

Im Zusammenspiel zwischen dem Wissen über eine Ausstellung und dem Wissen, das dieser Ausstellung entspringt mit ihrer Vielheit an "ontologisch vieldeutigen Dingen" (Elena Filipovic) und dem aktuellen Kontext, den diese hervorbringen, untersucht die Reihe vermittels wessen „die Ausstellung ein Medium ist“ (dies der Anspruch der Documenta 12), die kritische Praxis wie auch die materielle Ästhetik der Dauer. Damit gedenken wir das System konventioneller Annahmen darüber zu untergraben, was als Ausstellung gelten kann, und andere Möglichkeiten des Ausstellungsmachens als Medium und kuratorischer Methodologien zu finden. In der Reihe geht es ums Teilen von Formen des Wissens und der Erfahrung, die hochgradig subjektiv sind, und in dieser Hinsicht lässt sie sich auch als selbstgesteuerten Lernprozess auffassen.

Zwischen kritischer Analyse und der Auffassung kuratorischer Ontologien als erfinderisches Potenzial bringt die Reihe einen produktiven Raum für physische Begegnungen hervor, und richtet dabei ihr Augenmerk auf die Arbeitsbedingungen und den soziokulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Konnex der Ausstellungsproduktion und deren Räume, zwischen Künstler_in, Besucher_in, Kurator_in, Institution, Display, und dem Ausserhalb der Kunst als Institution – Beziehungen, die von Ästhetik und Politik, vom Unpersönlichen wie vom Individuellen motiviert sind. Wer ist heute Ausstellungsmacher_in? Wie hat die Künstler_in als Kurator_in die Display-Politik, das Ausstellungsmachen, Kunstpraktiken, und allgemeiner die Wahrnehmung von Kunst beeinflusst und verändert?


Das kuratorische Konzept in voller Länge (auf Englisch): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html



[Deutscher Text siehe oben]

A series of irregular events with presentations and conversations at Corner College 2016.

Curated by Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Alan Roth

Organized by Corner College


The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) is a new series of presentation and conversation-driven irregular events critically interrogating the curatorial turn, exhibition-making practices that sometimes go beyond the notion of the exhibition, the practices of curating performed by the artist, and the performative potentialities of the curatorial without a clear programming policy and museological framing. It questions how the political and aesthetic potentiality of the discourse can be made practical, searching for a new vocabulary reflecting on the idea of what an exhibition could be from the point of view of the artists and their current exhibition practices and curatorial endeavors.

Through the interplay between the knowledge about an exhibition and the knowledge emanating from that exhibition with its multitude of "ontologically ambiguous things" (Elena Filipovic) and the actual context they create, the series studies by what means "the exhibition is a medium" (thus the claim of Documenta 12), both the critical practice and material aesthetics of duration. With this we would like to undermine the system of conventional assumptions of what can still be called an exhibition, and find other potentialities of exhibition making as a medium and curatorial methodologies. The series is about sharing forms of knowledge and experience which are highly subjective, and with this argument the series can be understood as a self-directed learning process.

In-between critical analysis and the consideration of curatorial ontologies as inventive potentiality, the series makes a productive space of physical encounters, focusing on the working conditions and socio-cultural and economic nexus of exhibition production and its spaces between artist, audience, curator, institution, display, and the outside of the art institution – relations simultaneously motivated by aesthetics and politics, by the impersonal and individual. Who is the exhibition maker today? How has the artist as the curator influenced and changed the politics of display, exhibition making, artist practices, and the perception of art at large?


Full text of the curatorial concept (in English): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html

Posted by Corner College Collective

Saturday, 20.02.2016
16:30h

 

2016 / 201602 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)
Bettina Carl
Clare Goodwin

Bettina Carl, Clare Goodwin
 

[English see below]

Corner College startet seine neue Veranstaltungsreihe The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In der ersten Veranstaltung lädt Corner College die Künstlerinnen Bettina Carl und Clare Goodwin ein, ihre kuratorische Praktiken vorzustellen und untereinander und mit dem Publikum zu diskutieren.


Left: Streuflüsse / Magnetic Leakage Fluxes / Disparatni Proudy, curated by CAPRI Berlin (Bettina Carl and Ina Bierstedt), June - August 2015, at The Brno House of Arts. Photo: Michaela Dvorakova. Right: The Museum of the Unwanted, an artist curated project by Clare Goodwin KunstMuseum Olten, 2015. Installation view. Photo courtesy of the artist.


Bettina Carl

"Ein paar Fragen sind für meine Arbeit immer entscheidend gewesen: der Akt des Werdens, der Versuch, möglichst präzise zu sein, und die Möglichkeit des Scheiterns. Ich mag Komplikationen. Wenn du dich mit vielem Verschiedenen beschäftigst, darunter Politik, Geschichte, Philosophie und auch Kunst, wirst du nicht gerade zur Vorzeige-Expertin werden (und wir alle müssen hin und wieder die Stromrechnung zahlen). Aber womöglich bist du am Ende dann Künstlerin geworden."

Der Schwerpunkt von Bettina Carls künstlerischer Praxis liegt auf Zeichnungen, Malerei und ortsbezogenen Installationen, in denen oft Text und dreidimensionale Objekte vorkommen. Unter ihren jüngsten Ausstellungen sind jene im Brno House of Art (CZ), Lucie Fontaine Milano (IT), und Helmhaus Zurich. Sie hat mehrere Stipendien und Residenzen gewonnen, und ihre Arbeiten wurden in diversen europäischen Kunsträumen ausgestellt. Seit über 15 Jahren ist Bettina Carl auch als Kuratorin und Autorin im Bereich der Kunst tätig. 2001 gründete sie die Künstlerinneninitiative CAPRI in Berlin mit, sie war Kuratorin am White Space in Zürich und hat als Gastkuratorin in internationalen Räumen und Institutionen Ausstellungen realisiert.


Clare Goodwin

Clare Goodwin ist Künstlerin und Kuratorin, geboren in Grossbritannien, lebt in Zürich. Nebst ihrer Studio-/Malerei-Praxis interessiert sich Goodwin für die Rolle der Künstler_in als Kurator_in - 'Kuratieren rund um die Praxis'. Als Mitbegründerin (mit Sandi Paucic) des K3 Project Space Zürich hat Goodwin auch viele Ausstellungen in der Schweiz und im Ausland initiiert. Ihr jüngstes als Künstlerin kuratiertes Projekt ist The Museum of the Unwanted im KunstMuseum Olten.



[Deutscher Text siehe oben]

Corner College is launching its new series of events The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In the first event, artists Bettina Carl and Clare Goodwin are invited to present their curatorial practices and discuss them between themselves and with the audience.

Bettina Carl

"A few issues have always been crucial to my work: the act of becoming, the quest for precision and the chance to fail. I like complications. Immersed in politics, history, philosophy, literature, and yes, art, too, you won't become the very model of an expert. (And we all have to pay the electricity bill now and again.) But eventually, you may become an artist."

Bettina Carl's artistic practice focuses on drawing, painting and site-specific installations, often incorporating texts and three-dimensional objects. Among her recent shows are exhibitions at the Brno House of Art (CZ), Lucie Fontaine Milano (IT), and Helmhaus Zurich. She won several grants and residencies and has exhibited widely across Europe. For more than 15 years now, Bettina Carl has also been active as a curator and writer in the art field. In 2001, she co-founded the artists' initiative CAPRI Berlin, she worked as a curator at White Space Zurich, and as a guest curator, she realised exhibition projects at international art spaces and institutions.


Clare Goodwin

Clare Goodwin is a British born Artist/Curator living in Zurich. Along with her studio/painting practice, Goodwin is interested in the role of the artist as curator - 'curating around practice'. As co-founder of K3 Project Space Zürich (with Sandi Paucic), Goodwin has initiated many exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. Her most recent artist curated project - The Museum of the Unwanted at KunstMuseum Olten.

Posted by Corner College Collective

Saturday, 09.04.2016
17:00h

 

2016 / 201604 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)
Margit Säde
Denise Bertschi

Denise Bertschi, Margit Säde, Stefan Wagner
 

[English see below]

Corner College führt seine Veranstaltungsreihe The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) fort.

In der zweiten Veranstaltung lädt Corner College die Künstlerinnen Margit Säde und Denise Bertschi ein, ihre kuratorische Praktiken vorzustellen und untereinander und mit dem Publikum zu diskutieren. Stefan Wagner ist von Corner College eingeladen, die Diskussion zu moderieren.


Left: Steve.skp by Margit Säde, DOings & kNOTs, 2015. Photo: Margit Säde. Center: exhibition view, PROTECTION ROOM; Denise Bertschi & Gitte Hendrikxs, Rosa Brux, Brussels, November 2014. Right: STREET view, #brusselslockdown, Denise Bertschi, Brussels, November 2014. Both photos: Denise Bertschi.



Das kuratorische Konzept der Veranstaltungsreihe von Dimitrina Sevova in Zusammenarbeit mit Alan Roth (auf Englisch): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html




[Deutscher Text siehe oben]

Corner College is continuing its series of events The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In the second event, artists Margit Säde and Denise Bertschi are invited to present their curatorial practices and discuss them between themselves and with the audience. Stefan Wagner is invited by Corner College to moderate the discussion.



Margit Säde

… Steve’s appearance didn’t give away any hints of his rebellious nature, which existed alongside his feelings of ambivalence and loss. This project had indeed challenged the way he looked at things and the part that he played in them. The process of this project had taught Steve that it’s impossible to follow somebody else’s instructions – it was simply impossible for him to follow a given formula. He was fed up, for real this time, he was fed up of doing things in the way that they were expected to be done and most of all he was fed up with taking himself so seriously. “How is it,” Steve wondered, that there’s hardly anything that can make us feel better about the way we do things?” One does what one is; one becomes what one does...

Excerpt from short story Steve.skp by Margit Säde, 2015

Taking her last exhibition project DOings & kNOTs as an example, Margit Säde will talk how she is performing and switching between the roles of a curator, a narrator, a DJ, an artist or an assistant/intern.
DOings & kNOTs ( I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong) taking place in Tallinn Art Hall, was an exhibition about the impossibility of following instructions, rules or given formula. The exhibition tried to look into what lies between a refusal and doing, a script and a live moment, a self-organisation and an institution — imagined ideas and actual situations.

Margit Säde is an independent curator and an artist based in Tallinn and Zurich. Her practice emphasises the self-initiated, collaborative and ongoing nature of art practice. Her curated projects include group DOings & kNOTs at Tallinn Art Hall, SOURCE AMNESIA at Oslo10, While Walking on the Secret Paths but also While Walking on Salads, And So On & So Forth (at CAME in Tallinn and kim? in Riga), If It’s Half Broke, Part Fix It (CAC, Vilnius) and listening sessions A Selfless Self in the Nightless Night; Disembodied Voices & Imaginary Friends (BAR, Barcelona and Corner College in Zurich) and Hear Me With Your Eyes (Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam).



Denise Bertschi

PROTECTION ROOM – an exhibition project unexpectedly happening during the Brussels lockdown

PROTECTION ROOM is an exhibition wherein five artists inhabit « ROSA BRUX », an independent art space in Brussels, which originally functioned as a flat. By chance this week fell together with the #brusselslockdown beginning on the 21 November 2015 due to information about possible terrorist attacks in the wake of the series of terrorist attacks in Paris just two weeks before.

PROTECTION ROOM explores nuances of transparency and opacity and the thin line between the private and the public – question if this line still exists. During a week, five artists respond to different aspects and tactics of ‚hiding‘ and ‚covering over‘ („Protection“) – making reference to hyper-visible control of public spaces and the relationship between the body and architecture. PROTECTION ROOM asks how to claim our „right to opacity“ (Edouard Glissant) and in what way opacity can function as protection in a world of super-exposure. It detects the obscure and confinement of transparency and will function as a opaque view on the subject matter that can be linked to the public-space, private-self and over-exposed world.
Today, ‚public space‘ is democratized, we accept and submit permission for use of our private-selves without a second thought. One can question of movement between a ‚public‘ and a ‚public‘ is all that is left and how the feeling of security can be guarded, without giving in to systems of hyper-control.

Under the circumstances of the #brusselslockdown the exhibition project’s title PROTECTION ROOM got into new spheres of relevance and the question around the ‚public‘ and the ‚private‘ carried a new heaviness, also questioning the role of a ‚flat‘ as a safe place? The gallery space, which was our private living space for a week allowed subtle touching points between the working process of the artists – intertwining proximity and distance and eventually ending in a public moment, the opening which also stood under the shadow of this special political moment in time.

The project is initiated by artist Denise Bertschi. It wanted to test the slippery state between curatorial practice, artistic collaborative production and the role of friendship.

Participating artists:
Denise Bertschi
Doris Boerman
Gitte Hendrikxs
Sophie Reble &
Martina-Sofie Wildberger

http://www.rosabrux.org



Curatorial concept of the series of events by Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Alan Roth: http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html

The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) is a series of presentation and conversation-driven irregular events critically interrogating the curatorial turn, exhibition-making practices that sometimes go beyond the notion of the exhibition, the practices of curating performed by the artist, and the performative potentialities of the curatorial without a clear programming policy and museological framing. It questions how the political and aesthetic potentiality of the discourse can be made practical, searching for a new vocabulary reflecting on the idea of what an exhibition could be from the point of view of the artists and their current exhibition practices and curatorial endeavors.

Posted by Corner College Collective

Saturday, 18.06.2016
15:00h

 

2016 / 201606 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)
Saman Anabel Sarabi
Alex Wissel

Saman Anabel Sarabi, Alex Wissel
 

[English see below]

Corner College führt seine Veranstaltungsreihe The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) fort.

In der dritten Veranstaltung lädt Corner College die Künstler_innen Saman Anabel Sarabi und Alex Wissel ein, ihre kuratorische Praktiken vorzustellen und untereinander und mit dem Publikum zu diskutieren.


Left: WORMS Künstler_innengruppe, Worms 3008: timetravel to an un-named park, 2015. Photo: Tim Zulauf. Right: Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel, Rheingold. Filmstill.



Das kuratorische Konzept der Veranstaltungsreihe von Dimitrina Sevova in Zusammenarbeit mit Alan Roth (auf Englisch): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html




[Deutscher Text siehe oben]

Corner College is continuing its series of events The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In the third event, artists Saman Anabel Sarabi and Alex Wissel are invited to present their curatorial practices and discuss them between themselves and with the audience.



15:00h Picnic and discourse: Saman Anabel Sarabi, in collaboration with Stefan Wegmüller, and Alex Wissel will present their work through presentations, card games and an informal reading of their shared letters
18:00h Discussion between the artist-curators and the audience, moderated by Dimitrina Sevova
20:00h Screening of Alex Wissel's movie Single (Regie: Jan Bonny und Alex Wissel)

Copies of the artist-curators' collected material with and around their 'letters' will be available in the space.



Saman Anabel Sarabi

Mein Name ist Josephine. Ich bin Sängerin und komme aus einer Kurzgeschichte, in der ich mich nicht mehr wohlgefühlt habe und deswegen aus dem Buch heraus in andere Bücher, Situationen, Gespräche, Zustände, Wälder, Städte, Parks und Konstellationen reise. Dort, wo ich jetzt bin ragen hohe lauschige Bäume in die Höhe, zwei grosse Wiesenabschnitte werden abwechselnd durch labyrinthische Pflastersteinwege und dichte Böschungen miteinander verknüpft - hinter den Bäumen eine vierspurige Strasse und eine grosse Kreuzung, auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite riesige Villen.
Ich halte mich seit einiger Zeit hier auf und habe bemerkt, die Menschen hier teilen ihre Zeit extrem akkurat ein und leben darin als wäre es anders nicht möglich: es gibt Sekunden, Minuten, Stunden, Monate, Jahre, Holozäne und Antropozäne. (...) An den Wegrändern und Wiesenabschnitten entlang laufend, habe ich die Douglasie getroffen. Hier treffen wir uns nun regelmässig zum Schreiben, Sprechen und Lesen mit dem Nashorn aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Bern, einem Fragebogen von Almut Rembges, der verirrten Seele von Vivienne von Wattenwyl, Marthe Gosteli’s Burgermedaille und durchforsten die unzähligen Dokumente des Stadtplanungsamts Berns, ein paar Ausgaben der Lehrerinnenzeitschrift aus der Gostellistiftung sowie das Buch von Katrin Rieder 'Netzwerke des Konservatismus, Berner Burgergemeinde und Patriziat im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert' ... Lucie Kolb schreibt mit...


(aus: Worms 3008: timetravel to an un-named park with Josephine-Joseph the singer-mouse, a carrier bag full of resurrected l's and nd's, powerfull plants, turning subjects, historical papers and future ghosts, individuals and collectives - all needy for connection, they seem to have an urgent feeling for front politics but without the vanguard party and the free market feminists)

Eine Zeitreise am 19. Juni 2016 führt uns in Corner College in Zürich...



Alex Wissel

Kunst ist keine Pfeiffe

Wer bin ich? Wer sind wir? Wer spielt uns und wen spielen wir?

The moment where representation turns into participation is my main interest and I´m trying to reach it by thinking and working about marketing, appropriation and display decisions. My work has a lot to do with theater in everyday life and how architecture, social roles and a specific atmosphere can be used to influence people habits.


Single
Regie: Jan Bonny und Alex Wissel. Mit Alex Wissel, 70 min, D 2015

„Single“ spielt sowohl auf den Beziehungs-Status des jungen Künstlers Alex Wissels, der sich im gleichnamigen Film selbst spielt, als auch auf den von ihm gegründeten Single Club an. Nachdem seine Freundin ihn verlässt, sucht Wissel in der Rolle des Nachtclubbetreibers neue Bestätigung. In den Kellerräumen des albanischen Lokals “Bistro Agi” unweit des Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhofs findet er den geeigneten Ort. Von Juni 2011 bis Juni 2012 inszenierten Künstlerinnen hier experimentelle Parties und Performances, die sich unter Mitwirkung des Publikums entfalteten. Dank der völligen Verausgabung aller Beteiligten wurde der Raum dafür ein jedes Mal neu gestaltet. Viele nutzten die Veranstaltungen für die Gründung von Kunst- und Musikprojekten. So gesehen war der Club eine einzigartige Bühne für das Erproben unterschiedlicher Formate und Katalysator für neue Bands und Kollektive.

Der Film Single, von Alex Wissel und Jan Bonny, handelt einerseits von der kurzen Ära des Clubs, der als alternatives Modell von öffentlichem Raum und partizipativer „Sozialskulptur” konzipiert war. Andererseits erzählt er die fiktive Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der die permanente Selbst-Inszenierung irgendwann nicht mehr von der Realität unterscheiden kann. Der Film kann auch als Fortführung des Ortes mit anderen Mitteln gesehen werden.

Mit u.a. Lars Eidinger, Rita McBride, Peter Doig, Agipet Iljazi, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Magdalena Kita und Sibel Kekilli.


“Single” refers both to the relationship status of the young artist Alex Wissel, who plays himself in the eponymous movie, as well to the “Single Club” founded by him. After his girlfriend left him, Wissel seeks new recognition in the role of a nightlife impresario. In the basement of the Albanian gambling bar “Bistro Agi” near Dusseldorf’s main train station he finds a suitable place. From June 2011 to June 2012, artists, with the participation of the audience, throw experimental parties and performances. Thanks to the commitment of everybody involved, to the point of exhaustion, on every club night the basement had a completely new look. The events were used by many to form new art collaborations and music projects. From this perspective, the club was a unique stage for experiments in new formats and a catalyst for new bands and collectives.

The movie Single by Alex Wissel and Jan Bonny is partly about the short era of the club, which was conceived as an alternative model of public space and a participative social sculpture. Partly it is the fictive story of a young man who loses contact with reality due to permanent self-staging. One could also see the movie as the continuation of the place by other means.

With, among others, Lars Eidinger, Rita McBride, Peter Doig, Agipet Iljazi, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Magdalena Kita and Sibel Kekilli.




Curatorial concept of the series of events by Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Alan Roth: http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html

The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) is a series of presentation and conversation-driven irregular events critically interrogating the curatorial turn, exhibition-making practices that sometimes go beyond the notion of the exhibition, the practices of curating performed by the artist, and the performative potentialities of the curatorial without a clear programming policy and museological framing. It questions how the political and aesthetic potentiality of the discourse can be made practical, searching for a new vocabulary reflecting on the idea of what an exhibition could be from the point of view of the artists and their current exhibition practices and curatorial endeavors.


We would like to thank the Präsidialdepartement Basel-Stadt, Kulturabteilung for their supporting the participation of Künstler_innengruppe WORMS / Saman Anabel Sarabi and Stefan Wegmüller in this event, and in the ongoing exhibition, New Buenos Aires.


Posted by Corner College Collective

Saturday, 30.07.2016
17:00h

 

2016 / 201607 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)
Livio Baumgartner
Pascal Häusermann
Karol Radziszewski

Livio Baumgartner, Pascal Häusermann, Karol Radziszewski, Robert Steinberger
 

[English see below]

Corner College führt seine Veranstaltungsreihe The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) fort.

In der vierten Veranstaltung lädt Corner College die Künstler Livio Baumgartner, Pascal Häusermann und Karol Radziszewski ein, ihre kuratorische Praktiken vorzustellen und untereinander und mit dem Publikum zu diskutieren. Die Diskussion wird moderiert von Robert Steinberger.


Left: Livio Baumgartner, All The Things You Are (settled), 2014. Kollaboration mit Peter Baumgartner. Verschiedene Materialien, Grösse variabel. Ausstellungsansicht: Cantonale Bern Jura, Kunstmuseum Thun, 2014. Middle: Trouble Boy. Archives and Collections of Steven Shearer, Martin Stricker, Marky Edelmann, Supernaught. Exhibition at Corner College, 31.1. – 9.2. 2014. Curated by Pascal Häusermann. Right: Karol Radziszewski, Queer Archives Institute, exhibition at Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016. Photo: Everton Ballardin.


Das kuratorische Konzept der Veranstaltungsreihe von Dimitrina Sevova in Zusammenarbeit mit Alan Roth (auf Englisch): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html


[Deutsch siehe oben]

Corner College is continuing its series of events The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In the fourth event, artists Livio Baumgartner, Pascal Häusermann and Karol Radziszewski are invited to present their curatorial practices and discuss them between themselves and with the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Robert Steinberger.

Curatorial concept of the series of events by Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Alan Roth: http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html



Livio Baumgartner


Ausstellungsansicht: VITRINE 03, 22.12.2013 – 12.01.2014. Die Diele, Sihlhallenstrasse 4, 8004 Zürich.


Detailliertere Legende zum Bild // Extended caption for the picture:

Die Diele, Vitrine 03 mit «KÜNSTLERKERZEN» VON:
Martin Blum
Rene Fahrni
Franziska Baumgartner
Martin Charmosta
Costa Vece
Vanessa Billy
Nino Baumgartner
huber.huber
Sarina - Sandino Scheidegger
Cyril Plangg
Jan Hostettler
Ariane Koch
Andreas Heusser
Sebastian Mundwiler
Julia Hoentzsch
U.V.M.



All The Things You Are (settled), 2014. Kollaboration mit Peter Baumgartner. Verschiedene Materialien, Grösse variabel. Ausstellungsansicht: Cantonale Bern Jura, Kunstmuseum Thun, 2014.


Livio Baumgartner (1982 Bern) studierte Fotografie und Bildende Kunst in Zürich und Bern. Während in den Fotogramm-Arbeiten die klassischen Bildelemente von Linie und Raum zu einer neuen Interpretation gelangen, wird in den installativen und konzeptuellen Arbeiten der Frage nachgegangen, wann und wie ein Werk zur Kunst wird. Die subtile Ironie hinter diesen Kunstprojekten überführt den scheinbar banalen und alltäglichen Gegenstand in einen ästhetischen Kontext. Neben seiner künstlerischen Tätigkeit kuratiert der gebürtige Berner seit 2009 Ausstellungen verschiedenster Künstler_innen im Zürcher Off-Space «Die Diele». Zudem interessiert ihn immer wieder die kollektive Umsetzung künstlerischer Lösungen in Projektbezogenen Ausstellungen wie «No Territorial Pissing» (2010, Bern), «Shine on You Crazy Diamond» (2012, Zürich, mit Nele Dechmann und Nicola Ruffo) oder «Oh wie schön ist Panama – im Spannungsfeld zwischen Mola und Moral» (2016, Zürich, mit Andreas Heusser).
http://www.liviobaumgartner.ch/
http://www.diediele.ch/


Pascal Häusermann


Trouble Boy. Archives and Collections of Steven Shearer, Martin Stricker, Marky Edelmann, Supernaught. Exhibition at Corner College, 31.1. – 9.2. 2014. Curated by Pascal Häusermann.


"Das Thema der Männlichkeit ist eine Konstante sowohl in meiner künstlerischen Praxis wie auch in den kuratorischen Arbeiten.

"Trouble Boy", 2014 im Corner College gezeigt, untersuchte Aggressivität und Selbstinszenierung im Kult des Heavy Metal und bezeichnete eine Stagnation des Rollenmodells Mann. In Gegenüberstellung dazu steht meine derzeitige Arbeit des Erkundens von urbanem Lebensraum. "Walking in Paris along a Mosaik", "Walking an Oriental Line" und "Ascending and Descending in São Paulo" sind filmische Arbeiten, in welchen Kontrollschemen der Orientierung aufgegeben und neu erfunden werden. Eventuell handelt es sich dabei um ein Gegenmodell zur hegemonialen Männlichkeit oder aber auch um die Neuerfindung des Flaneurs."
http://pascalhaeusermann.ch/


Karol Radziszewski


Queer Archives Institute, exhibition at Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016. Photo: Everton Ballardin.


Taking his latest project "Queer Archives Institute" (QAI) as an example, Karol Radziszewski will talk how he is switching between the roles of an artist, an archivist, a collector and a curator. He will present the different forms the QAI takes - from an exhibition to a temporary office, a publication, a performance, a lecture. He will discuss also how he is considering running a para-institution as a political statement.

The "Queer Archives Institute" is a non-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to research, collection, digitalisation, presentation, exhibition, analysis and artistic interpretation of queer archives, with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in November 2015 by Karol Radziszewski, the QAI is a long term project open to transnational collaboration with artists, activists and academic researchers.
http://queerarchivesinstitute.org/

Posted by Corner College Collective

Saturday, 03.09.2016
17:00h

 

2016 / 201609 / The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
The Artist as The Curator as The Artist
(The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?)
peekaboo! (Lisa Biedlingmaier & Bernadette Wolbring)
Erica van Loon

peekaboo! (Lisa Biedlingmaier & Bernadette Wolbring), Erica van Loon
 

[English see below]

Corner College führt seine Veranstaltungsreihe The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?) fort.

In der fünften Veranstaltung lädt Corner College das Künstlerinnen-Kuratorinnen-Duo peekaboo!, bestehend aus Lisa Biedlingmaier und Bernadette Wolbring, sowie die Künstlerin Erica van Loon ein, ihre kuratorische Praktiken vorzustellen und untereinander und mit dem Publikum zu diskutieren.

Das kuratorische Konzept der Veranstaltungsreihe von Dimitrina Sevova in Zusammenarbeit mit Alan Roth (auf Englisch): http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html


[Deutsch siehe oben]

Corner College is continuing its series of events The Artist as The Curator as The Artist (The Art of Curating or How about a Paracuratorial Turn?).

In the fifth event, artists das Künstlerinnen-Kuratorinnen-Duo peekaboo!, consisting of Lisa Biedlingmaier and Bernadette Wolbring, as well as artist Erica van Loon are invited to present their curatorial practices and discuss them between themselves and with the audience.

Curatorial concept of the series of events by Dimitrina Sevova in collaboration with Alan Roth: http://materials.corner-college.com/2016/201602/201502-the-artist-as-the-curator-new-series.html



peekaboo! (Lisa Biedlingmaier & Bernadette Wolbring)




Welche Stellung nimmt man als KünstlerIn im urbanen Raum, der fortwährend von Gentrifizierung bedroht wird, ein? Dieser Raum, der immer auch ein politischer und sozialer Raum ist? Lässt man sich als KünstlerIn für die Aussenwirkung Anderer instrumentalisieren? Beteiligt man sich durch künstlerisches Handeln aktiv an politischen Prozessen?
Neben diesen Fragestellungen, die die Künstlerinnen Lisa Biedlingmaier und Bernadette Wolbring dazu gebracht haben ihre künstlerische Arbeit mit kuratorischen Formaten zu erweitern, werden Erfahrungen über das Arbeiten in Kollektiven und über Synergien, die sich zwischen künstlerischer und kuratorischer Praxis ergeben, ausgetauscht.

Das Künstler-Kuratorinnen-Team peekaboo!, bestehend aus Lisa Biedlingmaier und Bernadette Wolbring, hat sich zusammengetan um gleich einer Band, die an verschiedenen Orten Konzerte spielt, in verschiedenen (Kunst)räumen aufzutreten – in Form von Publikationen, Screenings und Ausstellungen. Da beide in jeweils zwei Ländern leben (Stuttgart / Zürich und Stuttgart / Stockholm), bieten sich dafür internationale Kooperationen an.
2014 bis 2016 lud das Künstler/Kuratoren-duo zu einer Reihe von drei internationalen Gruppenausstellungen ein, in der Absicht einen am Rande des Städtebauprojekts Stuttgart 21 stattfindenden Gentrifizierungsprozess zu thematisieren. 2016 stellte peekaboo! ihre bisherige Tätigkeit im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart im Rahmen des Post-Graduate Program in Curating der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste vor.



Erica van Loon


Installation view of the Breakfast Show, including one of the video works in the exhibition: It’s possibly the only way that I can walk through myself by Rosie Heinrich.


With her recent work, Erica van Loon reflects on the physical interconnection between the human body and that of the earth, but also searches for ways to relate to their less tangible inner worlds, that we access almost exclusively by the mind; like processes inside our planet or the human (sub)conscious.
She often works with repetitive actions or visual and auditory rhythms, that she sees as an instrument for creating a state of mind that intensifies our sensory perception, and with that, our ability to connect with what is outside and inside of us.

In June 2016 Van Loon took this ambition to sharpen the sensory perception, as a starting point for curating the Breakfast Show at project space PuntWG in Amsterdam.

Breakfast literally means ‘breaking the fast’ of the night. During night-time our attention turns inward and almost all input from the outside is paused. We temporarily shift to another state of mind.
Most of the time, an encounter with an artwork is preceded by a multitude of sensory, emotional and intellectual interactions. What happens if an exhibition is the first thing we are exposed to after waking up, when we have had little sensory activity and almost no interactions with our surroundings.
By moving the usual timeframe in which we look at art, the viewer has a slightly altered state of consciousness. Does this result in a different susceptibility, a different reflection on the works? Does it affect how we perceive the succeeding reality of a day?
The shown video works by Charlotte Dumas, Priscila Fernandes, Rosie Heinrich, Erica van Loon and Timmy van Zoelen each in their own way, could be connected to the above questions. At the same time they allowed for a broader reading, leaving scope for one’s own interpretation and for discussion at the breakfast table.
As the exhibition was only open in the early morning, from sunrise (around 5.20 AM), visitors were invited to see the video works before engaging in other activities. And indeed people took the effort to get up early; some of them even arrived earlier than the curator (or was she a performing artist?) who was racing the sun to get to the exhibition space every morning. Where she served breakfast, which stimulated visitors to reflect in dialogue.

During The Artist as The Curator as The Artist on 4 September, Erica van Loon will reflect on these mornings and how she links them to her artistic practice.

Posted by Corner College Collective