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OnCurating Issues 03 & 04 Out Now!

OnCurating 03: 'Curating Film'

OnCurating 04: 'The Political Potential of Curatorial Practise'

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Web-Journal focusing on questions around 
curatorial practice and theory

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OnCURATING ISSUE 03: Curating Film

Seven interviews address the question as to what 
constitutes and characterizes each respective 
style of curatorial work with the moving picture. 
How can the specific spatial situation in the 
cinema be conceived as a space which evokes 
meaning in a special way, and what is the nature 
of the narrative break brought about by showing 
films in exhibition galleries? What are the 
specific ideological structures which distinguish 
these spaces?

'Curating Film' presents interviews with curators 
who work primarily with the format of film and/or 
video. These interviews were all conducted in May 
2009 during the Oberhausen International Short 
Film Festival.

Interwievs with:
Ian White / Katerina Gregos / Gridthiya Gaweewong 
and David Teh / Mark Webber / Sheryl Mousley / 
Alice Koegel (in German) / Alexander Horwath (in 
German)

Concept, edit and interviews: Siri Peyer
Published by Dorothee Richter, Postgraduate 
Program in Curating, Institute Cultural Studies, 
Zürich University of the Arts
Supported by Postgraduate Program in Curating, 
<http://www.curating.org/>www.curating.org, ICS, 
University of the Arts, Zürich, ZHDK and Office 
for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)


OnCURATING ISSUE 04: The Political Potential of Curatorial Practise

Within the last few years, a displacement of 
power has taken place within the field of 
contemporary art. As the exhibition has come to 
be regarded as an utterance in its own right, 
authorial power is no longer considered the 
property of the artist alone, but as also 
belonging to the curator. As a consequence, an 
increasing number of contemporary 
exhibition-makers are utilizing their newfound 
power for political purposes, aiming to change 
societal structures through art.

Of course, political exhibitions can hardly be 
considered a new phenomenon. But the way today's 
curators express their political concern 
certainly is. Making use of processual means such 
as education, organized discussions, 
interventions, collaborative working methods and 
text production, they turn the curatorial 
strategies into meaningful and politically 
charged forms in their own right. But what is the 
critical potential of this new kind of curatorial 
practise? And is it at all in the power of the 
curator to change the world?

These questions will be approached in issue 04 of 
ON-CURATING.ORG through comprehensive interviews 
with curator and forthcoming artistic director of 
Documenta 13 Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Turin, 
Italy); curator, artist and writer Paul O'Neill 
(London, England); curator and critic Simon 
Sheikh (Berlin, Germany) and art historian Mary 
Anne Staniszewski (New York, USA).

Concept, edit and interviews: Gerd Elise Mørland and Heidi Bale Amundsen
Published by Dorothee Richter, Postgraduate 
Program in Curating, Institute Cultural Studies, 
Zürich University of the Arts
Supported by Postgraduate Program in Curating, 
<http://www.curating.org/>www.curating.org, ICS, 
University of the Arts, Zürich, ZHDK and Office 
for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)