Showing posts with label Mes56. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

booklet Dear Curator Curate Me/Yogyakarta

Download the Dear Curator Curate Me booklet here.
April/May 2014 Dear Curator Curate Me was organized in Yogyakarta in collaboration with Cemeti Art House and Ruang MES56. In Yogyakarta, three curators participated: Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh. The booklet is designed by Arthel Tagnipez and handmade by ASNARUPA.


Monday, May 19, 2014

Dear Curator Curate Me: postscript - questions raised during the roundtable discussion at Cemeti Art House

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The discussion on Dear Curator Curate Me (a travelling
--> project by the nomadic visual artist Kristoffer Ardeña) at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia, 19 May 2013, with curators Rizki Lazuardi and Chabib Duta Hapsoro, focused on the artist-curator relationships. The discussion at Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on the other hand, focused on the curatorial text. For Yogyakarta,  --> the following curators were invited: Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh.

Here are some of the questions that arose during the discussion at Cemeti Art House (5 April 2014):

1.     Why ask curators to include all the 15 videos?
2.     Why can’t curators select videos she or he wants to curate?
3.     Why can’t curators add more videos in the selection? Curators felt like they were given an assignment instead of a challenge.
4.     Is Kristoffer Ardeña acting as a meta-curator? How is Dear Curator Curate Me an artistic project?
5.     Are different models possible to express curatorial intentions? Is it possible to make a video as a curatorial discourse instead of writing a text?
6.     A researcher in the audience posed an interesting point on the dilemma and difficulties of gathering data from past exhibitions, if curators would opt to make non-text-based curatorial discourses, how would this facilitate research on these exhibitions in the future?
7.     What are the functions of texts within curatorial practices?
8.     What are the relationships between the curator and the artist(s)/artworks/exhibitions to the curatorial text? How to engage with artists and their art as a curator?
9.     Who reads curatorial essays? Who is our audience? Is there enough of a critical mass?
10.  What are the relationships between the curator and the public in relation to the curatorial text?
11.  Should curators write curatorial texts that are readily understandable by the general public?
12.  Is there such a thing as a curatorial art writing style?

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Dear Curator Curate Me - Yogyakarta: Cemeti Art House & MES56

Dear Curator Curate Me (https://www.facebook.com/dearcurator.curateme.3) is a traveling project by the nomadic visual artist Kristoffer Ardeña. Dear Curator Curate Me consists of 15 videos from different makers and each time this project is organized different curators are invited to write a curatorial essay on the same set of videos. This time around, the following curators were invited: Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh. Dear Curator Curate Me in Yogyakarta is organized in collaboration with Ruang MES56 (http://mes56.com/; public screening 28 March 2014) and Cemeti Art House (http://www.cemetiarthouse.com; roundtable discussion 5 April 2014 with Ark Gallery artistic director and independent curator Alia Swastika as discussant). Roma Arts coordinates Dear Curator Curate Me in Indonesia.

For the essays by Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh see here.