About and around curating #32: Donald Russell

Wednesday 10^th December 2014 at 18h, Artisphere (artist in residence gallery), Arlington, VA, USA

Tea talk & About and around curating #32

Tea talk is part of an accompanying program of LIVE/LIFE exhibition which explores the life cycle of silk bugs through art. The artist Elsabe Dixon is organizing every month from October 2014 till February 2015 series of Tea talks – conversations with audience and professionals from different fields such as art, ecology, agronomy, etc. The goal of these talks is to understand the exhibition as a space of encounters and merging practices, as well as possibilities to network perspectives.

Moderator: Elsabe Dixon, visual artist, professor at George Mason University.

Participants: Donald Russell, Karmen Wong, Sue Wrbican, Bill Mitchell and Srđan Tunić.

About and around curating #32 was held together with Tea talk, and also as an independent interview.

Guest: Donald Russell

Photographer, founder of Provisions library and university curator at George Mason University.

Foto: Elsabe Dixon and Srdjan Tunic.

About Provisions library:

Provisions investigates the relationship between art and social change through research, production, and education. From its library home in George Mason University’s School of Art in Fairfax, Virginia and at sites throughout the District, Provisions produces and supports projects in the US Capitol Region and across the globe.

Provisions’ art and culture research explores models for a more inclusive, equitable, and connected society.

Provisions partners with organizations, individuals, and institutions to develop and amplify contemporary narratives across cultures, support grassroots modes of action, and provide open access to knowledge and understanding of social change in its artistic and creative dimensions. The library, public programming, and research opportunities host artistic, intellectual, and activist endeavors that explore the educational and social promise of contemporary culture.

Local, national, and international projects include exhibitions, public art, residencies, screenings, workshops, lectures, and publications. Participants include artists, activists, academics, students, professionals from a variety of disciplines, and everyday people.

About and around curating / Kustosiranje is an educational and a research programme which deals with curatorial practice, the technologies of preparation and realisation of independent exhibition projects, education and support to proactive attitude of young and future art curator. The target groups are final-year(s) students and graduates of Arts universities (art history, visual and applied arts, architecture, dramatic arts, etc), professionals from the fields of arts and culture (curators, artists, managers and entrepreneurs).

Project authors: Andrej Bereta and Srđan Tunić, curators, art historians

Lithuania: Conference at Faculty of humanities in Kaunas, students' lectures and workshops

By call from professor Dr. Raminta Pučėtaitė, from Faculty of humanities in Kaunas, University of Vilnius (Lithuania), About and around curating was presented at the international scientific conference Creative urban development: Culture, Business, Community, with a topic Curating environment with dedicated creative force.

Day later, a short two-day version of our course (lectures and workshops) was held for students of Art management at the same faculty. 

link

About and around curating #31: Ars Kozara in The museum of contemporary art in Banja Luka

MSURS FB

Tač.Ka FB

7. Ars Kozara

7th Ars Kozara 2014

As a part of our regional activities, this year's Ars Kozara was originally designed from a curatorial point of view, as a collaborative activity between the artistic and the curatorial team. However, due to various cuts, it was reduced down to its basics. Our role was just a curatorial one, taking care of the concept and production of artistic works on mountain Kozara, as part of an residency art laboratory.

This year's organizers were Nemanja Čađo (project manager), Andrej Bereta (curator of 7th Ars Kozara), Dragan Inđić (artistic production and logistics), Charlotte Whelan (curatorial associate) and Biljana Banović (coordinator of project activities).

Participants of 7th Ars Kozara were artists from Zagreb, Belgrade, Krupanj, Banja Luka, Maslovar, Užice and Prijedor: Goran Čupić, Aleksa Gajić, Miodrag Jović, Davor Paponja, Aleksandra Kukoljac, Bojan Matović Fligler, Melita Matović Fligler, Irena Mirković, Bojana Radenović, Vladimir Sekulić, Ivana Živković, Tanja Marić, Danka Terzić and Suzana Vulović, were selected on international open call by Art association Tač.ka from Prijedor.

International cooperation: Trans Cultural Dialogues in Berlin

As participants of several independent projects from CIN (Cultural Innovators Network, Goethe Institute), we are developing activities in cooperation with several partners from the Mediterranean (Euro-Mena). A series of working meetings was organized with members of projects Artivists4Change and Trans Cultural Dialogues. As such, TCD (Trans Cultural Dialogues) platform was developed as an open space for mutual exchange of ideas and creative narratives within contemporary arts and culture. The trip to Berlin was important to enable in person work with colleagues from Italy, Greece, Algeria, Spain, Macedonia, Tunis and Germany, in order to finalize plans for an unique art multimedia set of events, similar to biennial, being held in different cities every time. The first edition is called DJART, which stands as an acronym which connects geographical location (Algiers), neighborhood concept and arts.

We are happy to announce that DJART will take place in November 2014 in Algiers, after reaching material and technical support, in the times when fundraising for these kind of international/continental cooperations in arts and culture are hard to sustain. More on DJART and TCD: http://transculturaldialogues.net/

Foto: Hichem Merouche & Andrej Bereta