BUNKIER
SZTUKI Contemporary Art Gallery
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Polyphony
of Voices
Contemporary Curatorial Strategies and Practices / Artist-Curator /
Methods of Working with Artists
October 20-23, 2002
BUNKIER SZTUKI Contemporary Art Gallery
Poland, Kraków, pl. Szczepañski 3a
tel (+48/12) 422 40 21; 422 10 52
fax (+48/12) 422 83 08
http://www.bunkier.com.pl/po
lyphony
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Polyphony of Voices
Contemporary Curatorial Strategies and Practices / Artist-Curator /
Methods of Working with Artists - Conference
Where: BUNKIER SZTUKI Contemporary Art Gallery,
Poland, Kraków, pl. Szczepañski 3a, tel (+48/12) 422 40 21; 422 10
52; fax
(+48/12) 422 83 08 http://www.bunkier.com.pl/po
lyphony
When: October 20-23, 2002
Conference curator: Adam Budak - BUNKIER SZTUKI, Kraków
(budak@bunkier.com.pl)
Soren Andreasen, Azorro, Caroline Bachmann, Bart de Baere, Monika Bakke,
Stefan Banz, Aaron Betsky, Miros³aw Ba³ka, Waling Boers, Paula
Boettcher,
Monica Bonvicini, Iara Boubnova, Andrew Brighton, Mariola Brillowska,
Adam
Budak, Neil Cummings, Hubert Czerepok, Catherine David, Joshua Decter,
Christoph Doswald, Charles Esche, Bruce Ferguson, Andrea Fraser, Ewa
Gorz¹dek, Ryszard Górecki, Hou Hanru, Joerg Heiser, Matthias
Herrmann, Jan
Hoet, Grzegorz Klaman, Ryszard W. Kluszczyñski, Izabela Kowalczyk,
Wojciech Koz³owski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Piotr Krajewski, Michael
Kroeger,
Lars Bang Larsen, Marysia Lewandowska, Zbigniew Libera, Maria Lind,
Enrico
Lunghi, Beauvais Lyons, Chus Martinez, Suzanna Milevska, Bernd Milla,
Robert C. Morgan, Frances Morris, Maria Morzuch, Vanessa Joan Mueller,
Joanna Mytkowska, Warren Nies³uchowski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Brian
ODoherty, Olu Oguibe, Jerzy Onuch, Piotr Piotrowski, Pawel Polit,
Maria
Anna Potocka, Andrzej Przywara, Raster, Andrew Renton, Anda Rottenberg,
Robert Rumas, Piotr Rypson, Adam Rzepecki, Henrik Schrat, Nedko Solakov,
Christopher Sperandio, Barbara Steiner, Stach Szab³owski, Aneta
Szy³ak,
Adam Szymczyk, Christoph Tannert, Marta Tarabu³a, Marek Wasilewski,
Scott
Watson, Rein Wolfs, Hanka Wróblewska, Jan Verwoert
POLYPHONY OF VOICES is focused on the problematics of contemporary
curatorial practices and its artistic, social and political
implications.
It is a second (and larger in-scale) attempt at introducing these issues
to Polish audience and the contemporary art context after the session
entitled Four (instant) Voices. Gallery: Vivisection Of A
Discourse
which was held at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in January 2002 on the occasion
of the exhibition Four Rooms with contribution from
Elmgreen&Dragset,
Dominik Lejman, Piotr Lutyñski, Attila Menesi/Christoph Rauch and the
film
programme (including works of Marysia Lewandowska/Neil Cummings, Andrea
Fraser, Azorro Group, Christian Jankowski and Mariola Brillowska).
Whereas
the FOUR (instant) VOICES session (with participation from Renee Green,
Marysia Lewandowska and Jens Hoffmann) concentrated on the discourses
related to the very institution of museums or galleries and their
functioning mechanisms, the POLYPHONY OF VOICES conference aims to
approach the complexity of the relationship between artist and curator.
As its structural point of departure, this event wishes to refer to the
Bachtinian model of a polyphonic discourse in order to achieve the
Brechtian alienation effect through the role reversal and
subsequent
pattern shake: the primary organising principle of the conference
invites
artists to curate the curators. Curators, hence are transformed
into a
more ambigious and thus more obviously creative position. Adapting
such
a convention, the conferences performative aspect oscillates
somewhere
between Andrea Frasers May I Help You stylistics of guided tour
and
Fred Wilsons Mining the Museum attempts and objectives...
Questions
which arise from this negociated space include: What is the arena of
artist /curator co-existence? What is the division of labour? In such a
masquarade-like atmosphere of alerted attention to artist-versus-curator
roles, the conferences further primary aim is to juxtapose and
foreground
different strategies of curatorial practice, art criticism and functions
of the art institution (looking at German, French, British and American
models - from an art historical perspective through to sociological,
philosophical and purely curatorial positions...). What are the
formative
processes which contribute to our curatorial methods and tactics? How
does
one BECOME a curator? The phenomenon of curatorial practice as
both an
intellectual discourse and the priviledged position of the curator will
be
tested in this framework of discussion. The conference will address a
number of self-proclaimed descriptions, tags and schools (from the
moderator and translator through to the notion of a cultural
communicator, broker of cultural goods, visual anthropologist
and the
exhibition auteur - new arbiter of taste).
If according to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current
English, curator is an official in charge, what is then he/she
really
responsible for? What is the ethics of curatorial decisions if we accept
a
very process of curating as an identity-affirming experience? The
main
territories of the POLYPHONY OF VOICES conference may be structured into
the following sections: a) examining the received ideas (or much ado
about
nothing): borderland spaces and limited areas b) curators background
and
backstage/searching for departures c) roles and models/role models (do
we
need any ideology for it at all?): play of dominance and autonomy? d)
curating: moderating, translating or filtrating? e) curating: crossing
the
line of a public service (clearing up misunderstandings and confusions)
f)
case Studies: master (exhibition) bits & pieces / perfect marriages and
misalliances + special: everything you would like to know about the
curator but you are afraid to ask.
Sponsors and Partners:
American Center Foundation, The British Council, Goethe Institut Inter
Nationes, US Consulate General Krakow, PRO HELVETIA, Deutsche Bank,
Polish
Airlines LOT, ORBIS Hotel Cracovia, Jagellonian University Institute of
Arts History, Czas Kultury
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