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NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano

NABA presents

THE UTOPIAN DISPLAY PLATFORM

Programme on contemporary curatorial activity
curated by
Marco Scotini e Maurizio Bortolotti

1st conference: Wednesday 25th January 2006
Round Table: Is the Show a Space of Dialogue?
with Anton Vidokle, Viktor Misiano and Charles Esche

<http://www.naba.it/utopiandisplay/>http://www.naba.it/utopiandisplay/


The Utopian Display – an annual international 
lecture series – opens its third edition with a 
new format: The Utopian Display Platform a 
programme composed of panel discussions, 
seminars, workshops and exhibitions. The series 
is organised by NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle 
Arti Milano and curated by Marco Scotini and 
Maurizio Bortolotti.

The programme has been developed within the NABA 
MA program in Visual Arts but is also open to the 
public and involve spaces outside the Academy, 
with the intention to start debate and 
comparison, in Italy and abroad, on the topic of 
display.

The series begins on Wednesday 25th January with 
the panel discussion Is the Show a Space of 
Dialogue? with Anton Vidokle, Viktor Misiano, 
Charles Esche, followed in February (13–16) with 
a workshop The Artist as Curator and the Curator 
as Artist with Jens Hoffmann, the end of March 
sees a further round table during MiArt: 
Independent Spaces and Models of Curatorship with 
Peter Lewis, Maria Lind, Raimundas Malasauskas, 
and concludes in May with Curating Degree Zero 
Archive an experimental model of display and an 
idea from curating.it an internet site dedicated 
to contemporary display issues developed by a 
group of young curators, and situated in the 
utopian display web site.

By using various tools of analysis, The Utopian 
Display Platform continues to reflect upon 
curatorial activity and its contemporary models 
of display, giving particular attention to the 
relation between artistic and social spheres.

The central themes are: in search of the 
non-alienating exhibition (to paraphrase Yvonne 
Reiner), the exhibition articulated in different 
geographies and periods, the exhibition for a 
wider public, the exhibition as an open space of 
transformation and production.

The Utopian Display Platform programme: the round 
table themes, the workshop attempting to envision 
a final model of display and an internet 
archiving venture of the most innovative 
curatorial proposals, aim to trace a potential 
map of contemporary curatorship.

Previous editions of The Utopian Display have 
hosted guests such as Carlos Basualdo, Hans 
Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Pier Luigi Tazzi, 
Catherine David, Hou Hanru, Jens Hoffmann, Roger 
M. Buergel, and Vasif Kortun.

Forthcoming projects will be formed in 
collaboration with private galleries and public 
institutions that will see the involvement of 
artists, theorists and curators, collective 
projects and other cultural forms, contributing 
to an open and continuous dialogue.

All the The Utopian Display Platform events (with 
the exception of the round table for the occasion 
of MiArt 2006) will be held in Spazio Elastico 
NABA, Via Darwin 20, Milan - 5.30pm - free 
entrance.

2006 DATES

25 January 2006 5.30pm – NABA
ROUND TABLE Is the Show a Space of Dialogue?
With Anton Vidokle, Viktor Misiano, Charles Esche

14-16 February 2006 – NABA
WORKSHOP :The Artist as Curator and the Curator as Artist
With Jens Hoffmann

30 March 2006 5.30pm - MIART fieramilanocity
ROUND TABLE: Independent Spaces and Models of Curatorship
With Peter Lewis, Maria Lind, Raimundas Malasauskas

30 May 2006 – NABA
EXHIBITION and CONFERENCE Archivio 
“Degreezerocurating”: An experimental model of 
the contemporary exhibition and curator archive, 
with the creation of curating.it, a website 
developed by a group of young curators (Daniele 
Balit, Cecilia Canziani and Benedetta di Loreto) 
on contemporary exhibition issues and situated in 
the utopian display web site.

<http://www.naba.it/utopiandisplay/>