Period: 11-14 June 2014
Lead Facilitators: Heman
Chong and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana
Cánepa Luna)
The curatorial-intensive will focus on
practices that engage with the production of knowledge; one that is
multifarious, relational and participatory. While providing scopes for intents
and slippages, it is often opened to interpretative articulations and
re-articulations, subjected to varying contexts of exhibition making and the
very audiences that perform and shapes it production. Lectures and workshops
led by Heman Chong and Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna) in this intensive
will explore concepts of knowledge production in the realms of art, fiction,
journalism, theory and other possibilities.
Day 1: Lecture and
Workshop by Latitudes
Day 2: Visits to
Singapore Art Museum, Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore & NUS Museum
Day 3: Lecture and
Workshop by Heman Chong
Day 4: Round-up &
Public Symposium
As part of Curating Lab 2014’s curatorial-intensive,
the public symposium “When Does an Exhibition Begin and End?” will bring together curators and
artists working in Singapore to discuss their recent and ongoing projects.
Addressing the format of the exhibition in terms of duration and process, the
symposium will consist of two complimentary sessions that will reflect on the
exhibition's capacity to articulate its own making and incorporate its own
history. In the same way that the Internet has untethered television from fixed
schedules and newspapers from print deadlines, the symposium will further
ponder on how the exhibition and today's art institutions are undergoing
similar transformations.
Within the context of Curating
Lab 2014, “When Does an Exhibition Begin and End?” will be treated as an occasion to reflect on the role of a
symposium and its public within curatorial practice. It will count on the
engagement of Curating Lab participants who will be live-tweeting proceedings,
mapping concepts of the discussions, and devising an approach to documenting
and reporting the day for those not physically present.
The symposium will be
convened and moderated by Heman Chong and Latitudes.
Phase 1b: Overseas Field
Trip – Hong Kong
Period: 16-20 June 2014
Lead Facilitators: Heman
Chong and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana
Cánepa Luna)
Immediately following the
curatorial-intensive, an overseas field trip to Hong Kong aims to expose
participants to international curatorial practices and situate their curatorial
processes within the region. Participants will visit spaces such as Spring
Workshop (http://www.springworkshop.org/), Asia Art Archive (http://www.aaa.org.hk/)
and Para Site (http://www.para-site.org.hk/).
Phase 2: Institutional
Internship + Exhibition Research & Planning
Period of Internship:
July – Dec 2014
Period of Full-Time Industry
Immersion: 30 June – 25 July 2014
Institutions: NUS Museum,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, National Arts Council - Venice Biennale
Secretariat
This six-month
institutional internship includes a mandatory full-time industry immersion for
4 weeks with an institution of their choice (pending final assignment by the
selection panel) to provide them with an overview of the daily activities of a
contemporary art institution or practice. After the immersion, each group of participants
will continue to work with their institutions on a mutually-agreed basis to
continue research assignments and projects initiated earlier.
Research for the final
exhibition project will begin during the internship period and each group of
participants will function as a curatorial collective. Each group will be
provided with a starting point related to the institution that they are
attached to. As a cohort, participants will attend monthly crit sessions with
mentors and facilitators to discuss their progress and the various facets of
exhibition-making.
The public Curatorial Roundtable talk series will launch
in August to continue providing participants with insights into curatorial
practice and networking opportunities.
Phase 3: Final Exhibition
Project
Period: January 2015
Duration: 3 weeks
Venue: NUS Museum
As a culmination to the
programme, the final exhibition project is a showcase of the participants’
curatorial projects to the public. Each internship group will function as a
curatorial collective and will be provided with an exhibition project budget.
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