[oberlist] Summer Seminars for Art Curators, Yerevan. 7th Edition

[Angela Harutyunyan]

 Call for 7-th Summer Seminars for Art Curators 2013

*To Perform And To Curate: Between Two Practices of Constitution
*

* *August 12-18th, 2013  Yerevan, Armenia

We are delighted to announce the next edition of the Seminars’ Program
organised in collaboration with Eastern European Performing Arts
Platform<http://www.eepap.org/>
.

The curatorial practice in today’s understanding has evolved within the
discipline of visual arts throughout the twentieth century. Thus far it has
expanded from exhibition making practices to incorporate design of art
educational initiatives and organization of archives and libraries. But
curating has also expanded to previously unreached disciplinary domains to
the extent that in 2000s one can speak of curating poetry, music and
performing arts as a whole.

The roots of these expansions can be sought not simply in the
ever-increasing pressure to synchronize creative industries with the
development of information technologies which result in the demand for
proliferation of administrative and managerial mediation between art and
its audiences. One could claim that the expansion of curatorial work to
include other spheres of creative practice is also due to a performativity
embedded in curatorial work since the curator constantly deals with
institutions, audiences and artists and mediates between them. Thus, the
curator works within and (re)produces certain social and cultural
constructs while often resisting those constructs and proposing new modes
of relationality. Ultimately, curating is a constitutive practice that
participates in the construction of artistic and receptive subjects.  The
curator neither fully identifies with the creative practice of the artist,
nor with the publics. Instead, she occupies a discrete, but shifting place
between the artist and the audience while performing the tasks of
mediation, translation and representation with tools and methods that she
implicitly or explicitly employs for the re-constitutions of subjectivities.

Given the growing examples of curating performative practices
internationally, the 7th edition of the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in
2013 invites applicants to join the organizers in exploring the double
notion of performativity, on the example of curatorial practices: curating
as a constitutive practice that deals with desires, identities,
subjectivities as well as curating performance art—a practice that has
emerged and institutionalized in the sphere of multidisciplinary art only
recently. We would like to investigate the intersections of the two modes
of performativity and some of the possible emancipatory implications of
such intersections.  The Summer Seminars invites art theoreticians, artists
and curators of various artistic disciplines to discuss different
performative practices both inside and outside of the boundaries of art
institutions. The program combines lectures with seminar discussions and
performative events.

The Seminars are free of charge. The participants are expected to cover
their own travel and accommodation costs. To apply, please send your
application that includes a CV, a statement of interest and a writing
sample to Harutyun Alpeyan to the following address *h-alpetyan at ica.am* by
April 30th, 2013.
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