The Political Structure of the Exhibition
Public conference
The Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History
Every exhibition implies a situational difference. It presupposes a transposition, an act of putting something outside of itself in accordance with the Latin "ex-ponere". This act is to be understood in spatial as much as in temporal terms, moving the exhibited into a new, (still) unfamiliar context which itself is not only constituted by other exhibits but by all the participating elements - people, objects, spaces, discourses. Assuming that such a constellation is dynamically formed all of its participants appear in instable relationships, which have to be constantly redefined. Within them meaning, roles, position and status are shaped and modified. The talk focuses on the political structure located here and traces its relation to other political aspects of a presentational situation, such as the topic of a show, the content transported by the exhibited objects, the attitudes and gestures, which motivated them. Central to the talk will be the question of the potential social relevance of curatorial practice.
Organized by Barbara Clausen (Art History Department UQAM) and The Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History, the Goethe Institute Montreal, Hexagram and VOX .
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Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig/ Berlin) teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Art History, Visual Culture and Cultures of the Curatorial. 1989 - 1993 Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main curator 20th Century art. 1993 - 1999 Lüneburg University, co-founder and -director of the project-space „Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg“. 2000 co-founder of the project-space „/D/O/C/K-Projektbereich“. 2009 initiator of the MA-program "Cultures of the Curatorial". Her current research interests are The curatorial; modes of cultural production connecting theory and practice; effects of neo-liberalism and globalization on the cultural field; and postmodern concepts of the „artist“.
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