Curatorial Workshop

Curatorial Workshop

Adam Art Gallery
Thursday 6 August 2009
4-6pm

Heather Galbraith, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Mercedes Vicente, Hamish Win
Chaired by Christina Barton and Laura Preston

This workshop on curatorial practice is intended for students of Art History and Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and Critical Studies, Massey University. It is also open to students from other programmes, as well as members of the public interested in the subject.

The aim of the discussion is to bring together a range of perspectives and approaches to the role of the curator, and provide insights into the practicalities, theoretical concerns and developing methodologies that inform curatorial practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand today.

The workshop will be structured as a two-hour forum. For the first half hour each of the participating curators will give an overview of their career trajectory and current philosophy. The workshop will then focus on a discussion based on four areas of concern, which reflect on the situation of curatorial practice in New Zealand including:

1.       The relationship of the curator to the institution
What are the pressures and parameters of working within an institutional framework? Is it possible to operate as a curator outside the institution?

2.      The nature of curatorial practice and its relation to artistic practice
What are the different research methods employed by the curator? How do these curators engage with artists’ ideas and developing practices? How do they see their activities reaffirm or subvert the ways in which the art market functions?

3.      The curator’s relationship to the audience
What is the curator’s responsibility to the audience? Is the role of the curator to be an advocate for the artist and/or mediator between artist, audience and institution? How does the curator relate to the expectation of developing new audiences?

4.       Curatorial practice in a New Zealand context
What are the conditions that inform working as a curator in New Zealand and how can we continue to foster the development of the practice within this region?

// REMINDER
NIGHT TALKS: Architecture and its latency
Paul James speaks at the Adam Art Gallery
TONIGHT Thursday 30 July 2009, 6pm

Paul James from the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington will discuss two questions raised by the exhibition project The Future is Unwritten.
How can artworks activate the latent cultural content of a site? And, how have the artists in this exhibition negotiated the legacy of institutional critique generated by conceptual artists and art theorists during the 1960’s and 70’s?

Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
Wellington 6140
www.adamartgallery.org.nz
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm
Free entry

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