13 Jun 2011

Out now: ON-CURATING.ORG ISSUE 08:

Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? PART 1

The symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique?, organised by the Kunsthalle Fridericianum and the Zurich Postgraduate Program in Curating (Institute for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts) was opened with the provocative question in how far it is possible to exercise institutional critique by curating exhibitions.

'Institutional critique' is a term designating artistic practices and positions such as those of Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Andrea Fraser and Hans Haacke. The question is: how can a practice that intends to radically show the conditionality of art, its financial entanglements, and its function as a means of distinction be related to institutions and curators' activities therein? Is this not a contradiction in terms? The aim of the symposium was to explore these contradictions as well as the possibilities and limitations of critical curatorial practice.

Contributions by
Dorothee Richter, Rein Wolfs, Oliver Marchart, Irene Grillo and Maren Brauner, Stih&Schnock, Maria Lind, Søren Grammel, Olga Fernández
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Edited by Dorothee Richter and Rein Wolfs

Publisher: Dorothee Richter
Web and Graphic Design Concept: Michel Fernández
Graphic Design Eight Issue: Megan Hall
Eight Issue: Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? Part 1
Translation: Benjamin Marius Schmid
Proof Reading: Siri Peyer

Supported by Kunsthalle Fridericianum www.fridericianum-kassel.de
and the Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts


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Application period:
1st April - 30th June 2011 (Date of postage)