[spectre] Curating Archive in Berlin [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> From: Barnaby Drabble & Dorothee Richter 
> <office at curatingdegreezero.org>
>
> Sparwasser HQ
> Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
> presents
>
> September  7. - October 3.
> Curating Degree Zero Archive
>
> An Archive, Touring Exhibition and Web-Resource exploring the field of 
> Critical Curating
>
> in Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin,
> Open hours: Wed-Fri 4-7pm, Sat 2-6pm
> or by appointment: text (or call) 0179 6705859
>
> You are invited to the opening on Tuesday the 6th from 7pm-11pm
>
> Public evening events
> see:  http://www.sparwasserhq.de/Index/HTMLsep5/program.htm (come back 
> for updates)
>
> Concept: Dorothee Richter and Barnaby Drabble
>
> Re-interpreted by Lise Nellemann for Sparwasser HQ Berlin
>
> The Archive is part of the ongoing project Curating Degree Zero, 
> co-founded by curators Dorothee Richter and Barnaby Drabble in 1998 
> and set out to present and discuss curatorial ideas and experiments.
>
> Curating Degree Zero Archive is a touring exhibition, which presents 
> critical positions in the field of curating. It contains material 
> (catalogues, articles, videos, CD's, images and web sites) in relation 
> to the practice of over 80 curators, artist-curators, new media 
> curators and curatorial collaborations. Since 2003 it has toured to 9 
> different European cities and will be in Berlin in September 2005.
>
> The Archive expands as it tours, docking onto the networks of hosting 
> venues and adapting to those areas of critical practice particular to 
> each new context. In such a way the choice deliberately avoids being 
> seen as a survey driven by the tastes of the organisers. Instead the 
> development of the list of participating curators is based on the 
> logic of networks, friendships and circles of shared interest and 
> discussion.
>
> Likewise the concept of 'critical' curating is not a unified one. It 
> is subject to historical change, just as the discursive formation of 
> the visual arts is subject to constant transformation.
>
> The web-site www.curatingdegreezero.org is an interface both for 
> exhibition visitors and people accessing the project via the Internet. 
> For those in the exhibition itself it acts as an indexing tool for 
> defining which materials are of interest and where these materials can 
> be found, it also extends the real space into the virtual, linking to 
> the web sites of the participating curators.
>
> Re-interpretation:
> In Sparwasser HQ the archive will be accessible as a normal library, 
> alphabetic and logical, and offer areas for reading publications as 
> well as digital documentations.
> Over 10 evening public events the use of the archive will be 
> performed. on each of the evening events two curators/ artist-curators 
> /artists will present their favorite curated projects from the 
> archive.
>
> The talks will take place between September 7. - 27. September. No 
> events during the Art Forum Berlin (September-28. - October 3.) but 
> the archive will be open every day 4-7 and also by appointment:
> telephone 0179-6705859.
>
> The exhibition is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin.

> Curating Degree Zero Archive
> An archive, touring exhibition and web-resource 
> exploring critical and experimental approaches 
> to curating contemporary art.
>
> Barnaby Drabble & Dorothee Richter
>
> e: office at curatingdegreezero.org
> web: www.curatingdegreezero.org