Curating in Context by Martin Sonderkamp

‘Curating in Context’ addresses the challenges of curating contemporary art beyond curatorial approaches inherited from the visual arts. Tanzfabrik Berlin, Lokomotiva Skopje, Stockholm University of the Arts, and the University of Zagreb co-organised the two-year EU funded Erasmus+ project. It aims to enhance curatorial training focused on social impact by engaging local, regional, and international stakeholders, including cultural organisations. The project uses strategies from the performing arts to develop educational resources for universities and ongoing training for cultural workers and citizens. It fosters critical reflection on socio-political and economic contexts and promotes curatorial methods that connect performing arts with activism and social movements. The project's meetings, public events, and resources will emphasise collaborative learning between politics and art valorisation.

LEARNING CONTEXTS: 22 - 23 OCT 2021, ZAGREB

FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENT

INTRODUCTION

The Final Multiplier Event was held from 22 - 23 October 2021 in Pogon Jedinstvo. The conference was visited by over 100 registered audiences who participated in the whole program. The program presented activities and the results achieved during the two-year project Curating in context through round tables, lectures and presentations after which the audience asked questions or commented on what was heard. On the second day of the conference Kristine Slettevold, Biljana Tanurovska, Nikolina Pristaš and Una Bauer presented the project outcomes and answered questions from the audience. The audience of the multiplier were teachers and researchers from University of Art and Design Linz, Justus Liebling Universitaet Giessen, Academy for Theatre, Film and Television Ljubljana, HZT – Universität der Künste Berlin, University of Amsterdam, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo and University of Roehampton who will be disseminating the outcomes of this project to their students and colleagues.

Due to pandemic reasons the space where the conference was held could not have more than 100 persons at the same time so we had to put the limit to 60 delegates plus the teachers and partners from the project. And due to this unusually big number of people gathering at this time we followed a very strict protocol of wearing masks in closed space, chairs separated one meter from one another and having free antigen tests at the entrances for everyone who didn’t have a COVID passport.

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PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR IN-DEPTH MATERIALS FROM EACH DAY.

FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENT - DAY 1

·POGON - ZAGREB CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT CULTURE AND YOUTH BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE

·PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE IN CROATIA - PRAXIS AND POTENTIAL

·MEDIATING THE MATERIALITY OF LEARNING: ON TRANSLATION, RADICAL INDISCIPLINE AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL CARE

FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENT - DAY 2

·PRESENTATION OF PROJECT OUTPUTS: COURSE "CURATORIAL PRACTICES AND CONTEXTS" + SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM + MA PROGRAM "PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT"

·WHAT INSTITUTIONS SHOULD DO

·DRAMATURGY AND POST-YUGOSLAV CONTEXT

·QUEER/CURATING IN CONTEXT

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