Phase
1a. Curatorial-Intensive was held from 11 - 14 June 2014. Lectures and workshops were conducted
by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna from Barcelona-based
independent curatorial office Latitudes and artist, curator and writer Heman
Chong on 11 and 13 June respectively, with a full-day local fieldtrip to
various art spaces on 12 June and a public symposium on 14 June.
The curatorial-intensive focused on practices that engage with the production of knowledge; multifarious, relational and participatory. While providing scopes for intents and slippages, the production of knowledge 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 therefore explored concepts of knowledge production in the realms of art, fiction, journalism, theory and other possibilities as well as introduced the participants to various modes of curatorial practice. Each facilitator lectured on a particular aspect of curatorial practice, sharing from each of their own experiences and particular modes of practice. The workshop sessions were an extension of lecture sessions.
Local field trips to the Singapore Art Museum, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore and the NUS Museum provided participants with exposure to curatorial practices in relation to the spaces of specific local institutions. Finally, a public symposium titled When Does an Exhibition Begin and End? was treated as an occasion for participants to reflect on the role of a symposium and its public within curatorial practice.
Lead Facilitators
Latitudes is an independent curatorial office initiated in April 2005 by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, that works in an international context from and in Barcelona, Spain. They initiate and develop contemporary art projects in association with institutions and collaborate with artists in productions encompassing a range of organisational forms and scales: genres of display and presentation; editorial practice and publication; forms of assembly, hosting and programming; as well as theoretical and interpretative contexts. Their starting point is to advocate the work of artists we believe to be critically relevant to our times. Ongoing research includes micro-historical practices; context-specific, narrative- or process-based art; expectations of public participation; the function of the duo; and how art and artefacts relate with obsolescence and cultural worth.
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 is currently working on a yearlong curatorial collaboration between Witte de With and Spring Workshop entitled Moderation(s). He previously co-facilitated Curating Lab 2012: Curatorial Intensive and Internship Programme, Curating Labs 2009 and co-curated the accompanying Curating Labs: 100 Objects (Remixed) exhibition.
The curatorial-intensive focused on practices that engage with the production of knowledge; multifarious, relational and participatory. While providing scopes for intents and slippages, the production of knowledge 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 therefore explored concepts of knowledge production in the realms of art, fiction, journalism, theory and other possibilities as well as introduced the participants to various modes of curatorial practice. Each facilitator lectured on a particular aspect of curatorial practice, sharing from each of their own experiences and particular modes of practice. The workshop sessions were an extension of lecture sessions.
Local field trips to the Singapore Art Museum, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore and the NUS Museum provided participants with exposure to curatorial practices in relation to the spaces of specific local institutions. Finally, a public symposium titled When Does an Exhibition Begin and End? was treated as an occasion for participants to reflect on the role of a symposium and its public within curatorial practice.
Lead Facilitators
Latitudes is an independent curatorial office initiated in April 2005 by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, that works in an international context from and in Barcelona, Spain. They initiate and develop contemporary art projects in association with institutions and collaborate with artists in productions encompassing a range of organisational forms and scales: genres of display and presentation; editorial practice and publication; forms of assembly, hosting and programming; as well as theoretical and interpretative contexts. Their starting point is to advocate the work of artists we believe to be critically relevant to our times. Ongoing research includes micro-historical practices; context-specific, narrative- or process-based art; expectations of public participation; the function of the duo; and how art and artefacts relate with obsolescence and cultural worth.
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 is currently working on a yearlong curatorial collaboration between Witte de With and Spring Workshop entitled Moderation(s). He previously co-facilitated Curating Lab 2012: Curatorial Intensive and Internship Programme, Curating Labs 2009 and co-curated the accompanying Curating Labs: 100 Objects (Remixed) exhibition.
Curatorial-Intensive | in photos
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the Curating Lab 2014 participants' Intensive journeys through Day 1 to 3 here:
