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Instructors: Massimiliano Mollona; Rahel Spöhrer
Event type:
Seminar / exercise
Org-unit: Communication & Cultural Management
Displayed in timetable as:
Kur. Praxis
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 24
Course content:
MOVING IMAGES | RADICAL ASSEMBLIES
Introduction to curating as commoning
What makes a thought, an act, a position, a movement radical? When does an image, a video, an artwork turn into a militant position? How can we understand the relation between imagination, radicalization, political movements, violent escalation, and social change? Can curatorial practices thoughtfully engage with the term as well as with artistic and activist practices connected to it? Can the curatorial practice itself turn into a radical offer?
Following the annual theme of the arts program "Radical Dreaming", this year's curatorial practice course turns to the notion of the radical (from Latin radicalis, "the root or belonging to the root, having roots") and invites the participants to curate and unfold radical imaginaries in all their ambivalences in a series of curated screenings and installations at Zeppelin University's White Box.
The first part of the course will trace the power of images and imaginative mindscapes through readings, screenings and shared discussions as a foundation for curatorial work. Participants will especially engage with images and video works that have been made in proximity to activist practices, are themselves militant, act in conjunction with social movements and reflect as well as share the struggle for radical change in times of planetary crisis.
The input from guest lecturer Massimiliano Mollona on “Cinema as Assembly”will address ways of reconnecting the moving image with the histories, agencies and voices of the people, objects and social relations that have been erased from mainstream forms of representation and values. In shared conversations with the filmmaker, anthropologist and curator we will think about how to turn the exhibition space into an assembly for shared political thinking and action. The course aims to approach curating itself as a radical practice creating multiple encounters between people and images driven by the desire to generate a space of radically decolonial and antipatriarchal imagination and dreaming.
The readings, research and discussions will enable the participants to develop and organize their own curatorial project, which explores how and under what conditions imagination and dreams can become catalysts for political action, while paying attention to the danger of neocolonial image making and the violence of radicalization in times of affective polarization and war - that is always also a war of images.
In the second part of the course the students will curate a series of events that are centered around the political potential of the (moving) image and create a space for sensory experience, careful exchange, collective thinking, and activist organizing. To do that the participants will build groups around the themes of anti-capitalist, feminist, queer, postcolonial, anti-ableist activism and filmmaking and discuss how to approach these struggles, how to bring them into an exhibition space and foster conversartions around these burning issues.
How can curatorial practices create assemblies that allow us to imagine mutual and cooperative life-forms, that is, concrete alternatives to the current regime of patriarchal and racial capitalism.
Educational objective:
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.
Further information about the exams:
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.
The presentation will take place on Friday, December 2nd, 2022.
Mandatory literature:
Kelley, Robin D. G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Campt, Tina. A Black Gaze. Artists Changing How We See. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. 2021.
Massimiliano Mollona, Cinema as Assembly, unpublished manuscript, 2022
Marwa Arsanios, The Production of the Utopian Image, published in the Internationale Online, in May 2020.
https://www.internationaleonline.org/research/politics_of_life_and_death/130_the_production_of_the_utopian_image/
T. J. Demos. Beyond the World's End. Artys of living at the Crossing. Duke University Press. 2020.
Modulbeschreibung:
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!
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