phase 1. Curatorial-Intensive

 PROGRAMME         

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Dates

30 July - 6 August 2012
(6 working days)

Concept

As an introduction to curatorial practice, the Curatorial-Intensive will consist of lectures, tutorials, and exhibition visits. Participants are to recognize fluidity of curatorial perspectives, informed by the dynamics between curators, artists, objects, institutions and their contexts. The workshop will emphasize discussions and dialogue, where tutorials will be complemented by journal writing and presentations.

Learning Objectives

Lectures conducted during the curatorial intensive will cover aspects of contemporary curating, where relevant, referenced to projects completed by the lecturers and their conceptual frameworks. Participants are expected to complete related readings assigned, and to actively participate in discussions during tutorials. Aspects of contemporary curating are as follows:

• (Re)Working the Canon: Curators and Institutions
• Positions and Repositionings: Writing Asia
• Art/Politics/Activism: Curating with a Cause?
• Artist/Curator: Collaborations and Resistance

Lead Facilitators

          Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the     

          University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003 and Curator of the  
          Vargas Museum in Manila. He is Adjunct Curator at the National Art Gallery, Singapore. 
          He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000-
          2003 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008.

          Heman Chong is an artist, curator and writer. His art practice involves an investigation  
          into the philosophies, reasons and methods of individuals and communities imagining 
          the future. Charged with a conceptual drive, this research is then adapted into objects, 
          images, installations, situations or texts. He participated in the 2nd Singapore Biennale   
          (2008), Busan Biennale (2004) and represented Singapore at the 50th Venice Biennale 
          (2003). He previously co‐facilitated Curating Labs 2009 and co‐curated the 
          accompanying Curating Labs: 100 Objects (Remixed) exhibition  

Workshop Invited Speakers

          Cosmin Costinas is the Executive Director of Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong) and its   

          first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art. He was formerly a Curator at BAK, basis voor  

          actuele kunst (Utrecht) and an advisory board member of Patterns/Erste Foundation   

          (Vienna). He co‐curated the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial and was the editor of documenta 

          12 Magazines from 2005‐2007. He has taught and lectured at various universities and art      academies in Europe and China.

          Pauline J. Yao is an independent curator and scholar based in Beijing and Hong Kong.    

          Previously, Yao co‐founded the Arrow Factory in Beijing, and was a co‐curator of the 

          Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi‐City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2009.

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