Speaker: Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Curatorship has been rapidly evolving since the 2000s and the origin of the word possesses two meanings: a custodian and the act of curing. The understanding saying that curatorship has replaced the artist lately is a phenomenon debated extensively. But is the curator also an agent of cure? Looking beyond the scope of these questions, curating displays parallelisms with the fundamental principles and structural features of contemporary art. Furthermore, curating is an act that involves extremely radical interventions to the historical problems of art, to the reality and the uniqueness of the work of art, and in this aspect it is nurtured profoundly by social theory. After dissecting, dismantling and de-constructing the given and existing reality of the art work it re-constructs it through an operation of transference. Re-construction is a process fundamentally different from re-production that has been formerly debated at length.
The seminar will examine these processes in detail and through a reading and scrutinization intensively delved in social theory and philosophy of art.
I. Curatorship as a Practice of Questioning
1. Contemporary art, contemporaneity, and politics as a stance
2. Sources of curating: grand exhibitions and evolution
3. Curatorship as question and answer: a realm of resistance
4. Curating as intervention
II. Curatorship as a Practice of Re-construction
1. The work of art, uniqueness, and interpretation
2. The milliard-faceted, divergent work of art
3. Re-constructing: beyond interpretation/hermeneutics
4. In search of a new artist: curatorship as an existentialist practice
Contemporary art, contemporaneity, and politics as a stance
Akbank Sanat Youtube
1 October 2020|18:00
Sources of curating: grand exhibitions and evolution
Akbank Sanat Youtube
8 October 2020|17:00
Curatorship as question and answer: a realm of resistance
Akbank Sanat Youtube
15 October 2020|17:00
Curating as intervention
Akbank Sanat Youtube
22 October 2020|17:00
The work of art, uniqueness, and interpretation
Akbank Sanat Youtube
5 November 2020|17:00
The milliard-faceted, divergent work of art
Akbank Sanat Youtube
12 November 2020|17:00
Re-constructing: beyond interpretation/hermeneutics
Akbank Sanat Youtube
19 November 2020|17:00
In search of a new artist: curatorship as an existentialist practice
Akbank Sanat Youtube
26 November 2020|17:00
Curatorship Practices: A Realm of De-construction and Re-constructing
October 2020 - November 2020