ABOUT AND AROUND CURATING: THRILL IN MOVEMENT, Mikser festival 28.05. –
02.06.2013
Planned format of the exhibition:
- Six teams were formed with a clear assignment to realise a new artistic
work, both autonomous and in correlation with others, developing a joint
and recognisable artistic concept.
- Key words: mobility, transit, change,
fluctuation, transport.
- Artworks general info: all works will be mobile – 5 teams will
have their works installed on mini trucks, while the 6th team
will set a fixed work (while having a clear element of movement).
- Each team consists of: an artist, a curator and a curatorial
associate/documentary. Their roles are clearly defined, by the requirements
of mutual communication and cooperation, as part of each specific team and
inter-team work. Having that in mind, the most important intention of this
team working is – responsibility. The focus is on: the transparency of
work (instead of mystification of the “creative process”), share culture
(instead of “author attitude”), participation and interaction with
audience (instead of distance, based on mutual ignorance).
- Roles: Artist and curator are in charge of
developing the idea and the best possible way of artistic production. The
artist presents the basic concept and technique, while the curator defines
the context, suggests the presentation and ways of communication;
together, they are creating a compact and argumented narrative. The
curatorial associate is in charge to track the creative process, like a
journalist, by text and photo posts, documenting the whole artistic
process. On daily bases, every associate will be publishing a blog post
(in both Serbian and English), tracking development and key challenges in
his/her own team, during preparatory period (till 27th May) and
during the festival (28th May – 2nd June). This
journalistic process starts next week.
- On artworks: all artworks (except for one, previously mentioned)
will be fixed on basis (trucks), but also mobile. Every day of Mikser
festival, About and around curating:
thrill in movement visual artistic programme will be installed on
different locations in Savamala district streets, while the mutual
communication of artworks will be pointed out as important element of the
exhibition setting.
- On exhibition setting: during the festival, each day the exhibition
will be installed at 17- 17.45h. Public guidanes will take place each day,
by one of six teams, in same announced time. The exhibition will be opened
from 28th May till 2nd June with working hours 18 –
04h.
- "Peripatetic programme": the accompanying programme will be consisted of
walking events, different from chamber and static format, usually
associated with this kind of activities. Several panel-discussions would
be held in closed space (Mikser House).
Directors
of visual artistic programme of Mikser festival 2013:
Andrej
Bereta and Srđan Tunić,
curators-art
historians,
authors
of the project Kustosiranje/ About and around curating
Belgrade,
09.05.2013
