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Open Curating Studio Gasthaus Zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zhdk Open Curating Studio Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK A “democracy to come” is a promising horizon for any programme. To explain the concept, I would like to lay out different trajectories: on the one hand a short description of the formats I had in mind, and on the other hand a reflec- tion on pedagogical elements as understood from the perspective of the theory on ideol- ogical state apparatuses developed by Louis Althusser, which in my understanding could be re-interpreted in a differentiated way with Lacanian concepts of the screen/tableau. Both of these trajectories are intrinsically intertwined with a specific attitude in actual encounters. This attitude can be seen in the light of Derrida’s demand for a “university without conditions” … Ed. Dorothee Richter 1 2 Open Curating Studio Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse from January 2014 to March 2015 Ed. Dorothee Richter 3 Ed. Dorothee Richter Open Curating Studio Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse January 2014–March 2015 Events, Discussions, Screenings, Performances, Talks, Meetings directed by Dorothee Richter assistant curator: Mirjam Bayerdörfer and the Postgraduate Programme in Curating (www.curating.org) and the Webjournal www.on-curating.org Special thanks to All artists and speakers Stadt Kultur Zürich, Peter Haerle und Barbara Basting Stadtentwicklung Zürich, Anna Schindler Urs Egg /UNDEND Architektur Freitag bags Institute for Cultural Studies ZHdK, Sigrid Schade Research Platform for Curatorial and Cross Disciplinary Cultural Studies, Practice Based Doctoral Programme, University of Reading, Department of Art, Susanne Clausen, Alun Rowland Connecting Spaces, Patrick Müller and Dominique Lämmli Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), San Keller Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Beat Wyss, Sebastian Baden Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Elke Krasny Imprint Open Curating Studio Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse Publisher & Editor Dorothee Richter Proofreading Stephanie Carwin Graphic Design Ronald Kolb, Biotop 3000 Graphical Assistance Jurek Baumann A collaboration of Postgraduate Programme in Curating (www.curating.org) Centre for Further Education Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, Department of Cultural Analysis Zurich University of the Arts Webjournal OnCurating.org Connecting Spaces Hong Kong Zürich Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur www.curating.org ISBN: 978-1517311032 Contents TEXTS PROGRAMME 11 34 Barbara Basting 10 January 2014, 7pmt Vorwort (German) – Bärenstarke Bärengasse FILM COMPILATION Eichelmann, Faiers & Rust: 13 “Do you really want it so much? …’More!” Barbara Basting Foreword – Bärengasse – Strong as a Bear 36 10 January 2014, 7pm 15 FILM Sigrid Schade Oliver Ressler: Take the Square Interim Use or Experimental Fields of Giving to See 37 10 January 2014, 7pm 17 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE Roberto Nigro Raphael Gygax: Drama, Dance, Art Alienation, the Social Individual, and Communism. Marx in the 21st Century 38 17 January 2014, 7pm 25 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE Dorothee Richter Silvia Simoncelli: How is the city an issue for art? Thinking about Curatorial Education Milan, for example 39 21 January 2014, 10 am PRODUCTION Constructing an Exhibition Display with Architect Urs Egg 40 31 January 2014, 7pm EXHIBITION Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker and Vera Frenkel 7 42 62 21 February 2014, 7pm 11 April 2014, 7pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK/CURATORIAL THEORY Tom Trevor: Institutional Clinique–On Recuperation Sabine Gebhardt Fink: On Performance 43 63 21 February 2014, 9pm 16 April 2014, 6:30pm MEETING AND TALKING TALK Zurich artists meet with young curators Gabi Ngcobo: “I’ve got your back / Watch your back!’” 44 28 February 2014, 7pm 64 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE 23 April 2014, 7:30 pm Mirjam Varadinis: Zero Performance–The Fragile FILM PROGRAMME Beauty of Crisis Urban Research 45 66 07 March 2014, 7pm 24 April 2014, 7pm TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE PERFORMANCE Elke Krasny: On Epistemology and Historiography– Exercises with San Keller and students: Critical CuratorialFeminist Practice Das Museum is bad for Paradeplatz 46 69 13 March 2014, 6:30pm 25 April 2014, 6pm EXHIBITION EXHIBITION OPENING Is it (Y)ours? Lucas Herzig: Ich sprang nur über Gräbelein und fand kein einzig Schweizerlein 52 19 March 2014, 6:30pm 70 DISCUSSION 25 April 2014, 6:30 pm Being with / the Other TALK & FILM PROGRAMME Culture Loops Film Programme with artist Amir Yatziv 54 28 March 2014, 7pm 71 PERFORMANCE 26 April 2014, 8pm Ben Patterson: Dr. Ben’s Fluxus Medicine Show SLEEPOVER Sleep with a Curator 55 4 April 2014, 7pm 72 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE 28 April–8 May 2014 Marianne Burki: Curating as an Art Foundation? WORKSHOPS Preparing an Exhibitionby Connecting Spaces 56 10 April 2014, 5pm 73 BOOK LAUNCH/EXHIBITION 30 April 2014, 6pm Francisco Paco Carrascosa: Johnnie Walker EXHIBITION OPENING on the Beach What We See & Make Seen 8 76 88 9 May 2014, 6pm 14 June 2014, 4pm TALK/ARTISTIC PRACTICE LAUNCH & PARTY Georg Winter: Joint exercise in the field ZWEIKOMMASIEBEN Issue 9: Party and of psychotectonics Magazine Launch 77 89 9 May 2014, 7pm 20 June 2014, 7pm EXHIBITION OPENING EXHIBITION OPENING huber.huber: Land of Plenty The Painter of Modern Life: Frank Tang 79 90 9 May 2014, 11pm 12 July 2014, 7pm LATE DINNER EXHIBITION OPENING Sharing Pizza ART IN ACTION. Instead of Implementing Ideas: Make People Think! 80 9 May 2014, midnight 96 FILM PROGRAMME 8 August 2014, Overwhelmingly Ordinary EXHIBITION Romancing the Context 81 16 May 2014, 7pm 98 TALK/ARTISTIC PRACTICE 8 August 2014, 7pm Meir Tati: Artistic Practice EXHIBITION Gaby Steiner: Public Home 82 21 May 2014, 7pm 100 DISCUSSION 8 August 2014,8 pm Land of Plenty–Land of Milk and Honey or Land LIVE MUSIC of Excess? Benjamin Brodbeck: Musical Performance Live! 83 101 23 May 2014, 6pm 6 September 2014, 7pm Talk and Project EXHIBITION OPENING Jyoti Mistry: Narrative, Memory and Site Burnout 85 104 24 May 2014, 2pm 3 October 2014, 7pm TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE Marc Glöde: Talk on Curatorial Practice Dorothee Richter: My Glam, Your Glam, Our Glam–A Crossreading of Curating and Fashion 86 30 May 2014, 7pm 105 EXHIBITION OPENING 10 October 2014, noon Master of Advanced Studies in Curating EXHIBITION OPENING What’s Cooking? A Re-Arrangement 9 76 130 17 October 2014, 7pm 19 December 2014, 7pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE Niko Ruffo and Nele Dechmann: Marina Coelho: KUNSTHALLE São Paulo – From Curating Off the Beaten Track Thesis to Practice 111 131 24 October 2014, 6pm 19 December 2014, 8pm EXHIBITION OPENING TALK / ARTISTIC PRACTICE Unsettling the Setting: Playing, Plying, Squatting, Baltensperger+Siepert: Contemporary Practice– Operating, Owning, Occupying–or rather? Unfolding Beyond the Art Space 119 132 1 November 2014, 2pm 21 December 2015, 10am ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION Interview Open Questions: Unsettling the Setting Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interview on Curatorial Practice 122 133 21 November 2014, 7pm 21 December 2014, 5pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE EVENT Anja Casser: Let’s Take Back Our Space. Gender Re-Birth Day: A Project by Michelangelo Pistoletto Politics and Curatorial Practice 134 123 9 January 2015, 4pm 21 November 2014, 7pm SYMPOSIUM PERFORMANCE The Globalization of Periphery Daniel Marti: Performance 136 124 16 January 2015, 7pm 7 December 2014, 7:30pm TALK / ARTISTIC PRATCISE EXHIBITON !Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art under Mass Surveillance A Is for Albatross 137 126 23 January 2015, 6pm 12 December 2014, 6:30pm EXHIBITION EXHIBITION CONTROL / SHIFT / PLUS The Third Paradise: Enlight the Future 139 128 20 February 2015, 6pm 12 December 2014, 7pm PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION A Performative Piece by Nicole Bachmann Shiyu Gao: Jam Tomorrow 140 129 20 February 2015, 7pm 12 December 2014, 7pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE Jelena Petrovic: The Living Archive Marina Grzinic: Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism 10 141 21 February 2015, 10am VIDEO PRODUCTION How We Live Now: Film Project with Students from Lucerne 143 27 February 2015, 7pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE Axel Langer: Discussing CONTROL / SHIFT / PLUS 144 6 March 2015, 7pm EXHIBITION Involvement Requires Perception: Eleven Ways to Get Involved with Art and Social Space 153 27 March 2015, 8pm ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION & PARTY (CLOSING NIGHT) On Off Spaces moderated by Pablo Müller. Lukas Kreuzer live!, DJs Paul Neumann, La Captaine, Yavuz Tunakan 154 29 March 2015, 10am Interview Lars Nittve: Interview onCuratorial Practice 11 Barbara Basting Bärenstarke Bärengasse Vor ungefähr zwanzig Jahren war ich zum ersten Mal sollte die Bärengasse dem von einer privaten Stiftung im Museum Bärengasse. Damals wurde das Haus mit betriebenen Money Museum als Museumsplattform seinem historischen bürgerlichen Wohnräumen als für das von dieser Stiftung verfolgte Anliegen dienen, Wohnmuseum vom Landesmuseum geführt. Eine der eine abendländische Geschichte des Geldes museal Hauptattraktionen war die Präsentation der legendären darzustellen. Doch das Money Museum orientierte sich «Sasha-Bäbi», der besonders sorgfältig gestalteten kurzfristig anders. Damit war die Präsidialabteilung Puppen der 1893 geborenen Bernerin Elsbeth Siegen- erneut mit der Frage konfrontiert, welche anderen thaler, die ich mit meiner kleinen Tochter anschauen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten sich kurzfristig bieten könnten. wollte. Der Besuch ist mir wohl auch deswegen so gut in Erinnerung, weil ich später nicht mehr in das Museum Sie prüfte für die Räume ein Ad-hoc-Konzept
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