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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>Research Seminar and Public Conference<BR>
</B>9-11 December 2012, Århus Kunstbygning, Denmark<BR>
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<B>Curatorial Ego <BR>
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Organised by Århus Kunstbygning Contemporary Art Centre<BR>
and Institute of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark<BR>
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Keynote speakers:<BR>
<B>Joasia Krysa</B>, Artistic Director Århus Kunstbygning, Visiting Associate Professor, Plymouth University, UK, dOCUMENTA (13) curatorial agent, and author of <I>Curating Immateriality</I> (New York: Autonomedia 2006)<BR>
<B>Chus Martinez</B>, chief curator dOCUMENTA (13), Associate Curator MACBA, Barcelona.<BR>
<B>Paul O'Neill</B>, independent curator, author of <I>Curating Subjects</I> (London: Open Editions, 2007), <I>The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)</I> (MIT Press 2012).<BR>
<B>Livia Paldi</B>, Director BAC – Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Visby, Sweden, dOCUMENTA (13) curatorial agent.<BR>
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/ with video contribution by <B>Lars Bang Larsen</B>, independent curator and researcher.<BR>
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While traditionally the practice of curating has been derived from museology and art history disciplines, the second half of the twentieth century has seen the rapid development of the curatorial field in its own right and a proliferation of curatorial practice (and curators) with a broader range of influences. <BR>
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The corresponding shift of emphasis from production to mediation of art - or what has been otherwise described as 'the curatorial turn' - has added a new degree of visibility for curators. At the same time, in particular since the 1960s artistic practices have drawn closer to everyday practices and encouraged active participation of audiences in meaning production (via post-structuralism, second-order cybernetics, etc). Yet despite the emphasis on 'relations' and the distributed knowledge, this has ultimately tended to enhance the reputation of the curator, who initiates and manages the open-ended experiments in the 'laboratory' of art, arranging not just artworks but artists and audiences too; an approach typified by the figure of the celebrity curator. With an increasingly competitive world of biennales, blockbuster exhibitions, and the global art market at one end of the spectrum, and experimentation with technologically mediated curatorial systems at the other, the issue of curatorial agency, subjectivity and authorship becomes even more pertinent. <BR>
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<B>Århus Kunstbygning</B> and <B>Institute of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University</B>, Denmark, host a public conference and a research workshop to examine the role of the curator in contemporary culture addressing the following questions:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How curatorial agency manifests itself in the shifting and expanded field of production?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How to balance artistic decision, institutional strategy and curatorial power?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How co-productive exhibition processes, and multiple agencies and actors can be represented in the final exhibition-form
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How algorithmic culture relates to curating? What are the new ways of thinking and conceptualising curatorial processes in relation to the performances of machines and automatisms derived from algorithms?<BR>
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The one day conference is free and open to public. The two day workshop is directed to PhD students and researchers. <BR>
Conference registration and workshop application deadline 15 November 2012<BR>
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For further information and how to register please see: <a href="http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk">http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk</a>, or, contact AKB Communications Office Birgitte Sonne Kristensen, P: +45 86 20 60 55, M: <a href="bk@aarhuskb.dk">bk@aarhuskb.dk</a>.<BR>
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