CuratorLab presents a two-day online program ”An Archaeology of a Profession. Conversations with ground-breaking senior curators”.
4 September | Valerie Smith, Mary Jane Jacob
moderated by Joanna Warsza
5 September | Elisabet Haglund, Carlos Capelán, Jan-Erik Lundström
moderated by Maria Lind
The event will be livestreamed on CuratorLab Facebook page.
CuratorLab embarks on a year-long project tracing the professional archaeology of some of the senior ground-breaking curators. We will dig into a number of instrumental exhibitions and other projects, which on the one hand introduced decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches in Sweden, and on the other hand anti-monumental curating in the public realm in Europe and the US. The projects will lead us to practitioners who have made a mark on both art and curating of their time, and still remain less known. This year research will lead us to making a book and an exhibition honoring their legacy.
CuratorLab is a one-year international curatorial course at Konstfack University of Arts, Stockholm, under the program direction of Joanna Warsza and guest lecturer Maria Lind. We are expanding the ideas of curating and the curatorial beyond the exhibition format, exploring radical approaches to engagement, debating pertinent issues of our times, having collective fun, and practicing horizontal learning, also with the help of curatorial assistant Vasco Forconi.