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Tagung: Curating: Glittering Myth, Social Symptom, Revolutionary Force?

Tagungen und Symposien 15.11.2014

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, Schweiz

Curating as a glittering myth, curating as a social symptom, curating as a revolutionary force? This last aspect of art/curating has been the hidden driving force behind many research projects. An argument can be made on the basis of various theoretical approaches how art has an impact on social conditions, how it can achieve a political dimension after all. Jacques Ranciere argues that certain forms of art, namely the aesthetic regime of visibility, express “equivalence” or “equality”, and that this is true of postmodernism. This viewpoint can also be critiqued from a perspective which takes into consideration the power struggles in the art field.

Contemporary curating exists as a media conglomerate, the production of meaning is achieved through a combination of artworks, photographs, commentary, publications, design, gestures, music, film, press releases, websites and interviews. It is situated in a specific political and cultural context. To analyse these complex situations we need a variety of approaches, for every project the combination could alter, it makes a bricolage of methodical approaches necessary.

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