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Lehrende: Rahel Spöhrer
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar / Übung
Orga-Einheit: Communication & Cultural Management
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Kur. Praxis
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Hinweis: In Ihrer Prüfungsordnung können abweichende Credits festgelegt sein.
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 35
Inhalte:
The power of whiteness rests in its ability to deny its existence
Candice Breitz
How do artistic practices and forms engage with racism and extremism against the backdrop of the rise of new right-wing movements and governments? What artistic strategies are used to address and challenge discriminatory and violent structures and racist aesthetic regimes within art institutions and beyond? To what ends do these fail or become appropriated by neoliberal structures or regressive forces? What aesthetic means do artists use to intervene in asymmetrical power structures without reproducing the violent relations they contain? And how can curatorial practice itself be understood and exercised as an anti-racist practice that aims to decolonize its institutions?
This year's curatorial practice course explores these questions by developing an experimental symposium between art, academia, and activist engagement in collaboration with the zeppelin universities artsprogram.
The starting point for the conception of the symposium is the video work Whiteface (2022) by artist Candice Breitz, which will be shown in the university's exhibition space as part of the artprogram's annual theme being wrong. The work explores the conditions of whiteness, focusing on the vocabulary that gives ground to ideologies of white supremacy, while illuminating contemporary struggles of identity politics, and forms of immunization against anti-racist struggle.
Participants will work in small curatorial groups and thematically explore conditions of whiteness, as well as structural racism and extremism within art institutions and beyond. They will think critically about the politics of representation and consider how artistic practices and artworks address these issues and intervene in aesthetic and other regimes. By exploring experimental ways of assembling, hosting, and facilitating in the format of a symposium, participants will actively engage with how anti-racist and decolonial forms of exhibition making can be understood and applied in practice.
For a more in-depth study of the topic, participants are encouraged to attend the study group "White Sight - Black Looks", which is offered as a "Zusatz".
Lernziele:
In this course, students receive an introduction to experimental practices of curating. They learn to pursue and address content-related questions in curatorial formats. In the co-development of their own curatorial projects, the participants learn the basic techniques of curating: from the content-related engagement with a topic, to the conception, to the acquisition of funds, to the organization, implementation, and hosting of a curatorial event.
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
The examination of the course "Curatorial Practice" consists of curating (conception, presentation, installation and deinstallation) an event within the framework of a student led screening and installation series in the context of the exhibition Radical Dreaming in the White Box of Zeppelin University.
REMARK:
This course is linked to the theoretical part of the module by Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg. It is mandatory to take both courses "Theory & History of Curating" and "Curatorial Practice" as a module. Exceptions for international students!
Literatur:
Bayer, N., Kazeem-Kaminski, B. & Sternfeld, N. (2017). Kuratieren als antirassistische Praxis. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
Ndikung, B. S. B. (2023). Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating. MIT Press.
What, H. &. F. W. (2014). Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe.
Hooks, B. (2014). Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge
Mirzoeff, N. (2023). White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness. MIT Press.
DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
Ahmed, S. (2007). A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist Theory, 8(2), 149–168.
Lloyd, D. (2018). Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics. Fordham Univ Press.
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