Curatorial Practice in Context 2022

/english/ 29.08. Monday 11.00 – 12.15 →   Introduction and context presentation/ Brief introduction on the course presentation of the SKH, OPEN course, and presentation of the participants by Tove Salmgren and Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski Bio: Tove Salmgren  works as a dancer, choreographer, curator, and educator. Since 2016 she leads, together with the artist Kajsa Wadhia, Köttinspektionen Dans, an artist-driven platform and place for experimental dance and choreography in Uppsala, Sweden. As a choreographer, she explores shifted perspectives and reality, often through tiny interventions, based on the interest in negotiating what art (and non-art) can do and be a place for the emancipatory unknown. Tove has over the last decade been part of various artistic collaborations, such as “The Blob” (initiated by Anna Efraimsson), a curatorial persona exercising and practicing an institutional critique of art, knowledge and beyond, the curatorial collaboration “We happen things” (...

/македонски подолу/ Curating in Context The two-year-long Erasmus+ project co-organized between two NGOs (Tanzfabrik Berlin and Lokomotiva Skopje), and two Higher Education Institutions (Stockholm University of the Arts and the University of Zagreb) was developed in order to respond to the challenges that the growing influence of the concepts of curating and curatorial pose in the contemporary art field, beyond the sphere of visual arts. The project focuses on creating knowledge and opportunities for students, practitioners, curators, scholars, and cultural workers to critically reflect and address different socio-political and economic contexts, and develop curatorial methods to rethink the practices of performing arts in relation to activism, social movements, and self-organization. During the two years, the project will result in a series of meetings, public events, and various resources that will thematize collaborative learning approaches through curating between politics and poli...