“Salon Discussion: ‘You Talkin’ to me? Why art is turning to education,’” The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, →.
Among others; A.C.A.D.E.M.Y Hamburg, Antwerp, Eindhoven, 2006-7, “Summit – Non Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture,” 2007, “Faculties of Architecture, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale,” 2008. The Ph.D. program “Curatorial/Knowledge” at Goldsmiths College, London University, co-directed with Jean-Paul Martinon.
Mårten Spångberg, “Researching Research, Some reflections on the current status of research in performing arts,” International Festival, →.
Initiated by Angelika Nollert, then at the Siemens Art Fund, A.C.A.D.E.M.Y was a collective project between Hamburg Kunstverein, MuKHA Antwerp, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, London University. It took place in three cities throughout 2006 and was accompanied by a book published by Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst and edited by A. Nollert and I. Rogoff et al., →.
The project was organized by a collective – Irit Rogoff (London), Florian Schneider (Munich), Nora Sternfeld (Vienna), Susanne Lang (Berlin), Nicolas Siepen (Berlin), Kodwo Eshun (London) – and in collaboration with the HAU theatres, Unitednationsplaza, Bootlab, and the Bundeskulturstifung, all in Berlin.
I say all this with a certain awkwardness, in light of my own involvement with so many of these initiatives. Exhibitions, self-organized forums within the art world, numerous conversation platforms: all shared the belief that turning to “education” as an operating model would allow us to reinvigorate the spaces of display as sites of genuine transformation.
I refer to the discussion forum “100 days – 100 guests” at Documenta X (1997, curated by Catherine David), which hosted 100 talks during the exhibition, and to the four Documenta discussion platforms across the globe prior to the opening of Documenta XI (2002, curated by Okwui Enwezor et al.). See Documenta XI, exhibition catalogue (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Kantz, 2002).
Another key example is unitednationsplaza, a project in Berlin in 2006-2007 (the exhibition as art school), now continued in New York as nightschool and in this reincarnation connected to Mårten Spångberg’s project of “Evening Classes” at the YourSpace.com section of A.C.A.D.E.M.Y exhibition.
Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech, ed. Joseph Pearson (New York: Semiotext(e), 2001).
Fearless Speech, 19-20
Fearless Speech, 170