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How the workshops will be conducted/ How to Apply/Mode of Selection
M.A /M.Phil /Ph.D. level students or aspiring art professionals who have already worked on curatorial projects, young art writers/artists can apply for participation in the workshop.
The Next Workshop will be held at University of Jammu, Jammu Tawi, India, with a thematic focus on Art in the Context of Conflicts
The Concept Note: Art in the Context of Conflicts
The thematic focus of this workshop has some reference to the historical situation of Jammu and Kashmir and attempts to address some of the specificities of it. At the same time, it is not restricted to the historical situations of this particular location alone. Such a restriction produces the impression that Jammu and Kashmir is an exception and that other parts of the nation and the globe are conflict-free zones. On the contrary, conflicts are not exceptions; in fact, they are the norms of our lives. Keeping in mind this broader framework, this proposed workshop is an attempt to engage with the question of art, aesthetics and politics in the context of zones of conflicts. The world conflict is not necessarily used here to denote physical or material conflicts alone; and conflicts are not looked at as essentially a negative category.
Concurrent with this, the idea of curation is imagined here not merely as a curative act in the conventional or therapeutic sense. This workshop anticipates intense debates around the questions of artistic intervention, engagement and participations in the arena of politics. A renewed understanding regarding the relationship between artistic practices and politics (or artistic practices as politics and vice versa) and the implications of it in the sphere of curatorial practices is one of the central thematics of this workshop. In fact, intense engagements with the struggles of the people and communities for justice, equity and equality can broaden and alter the idea of curation in substantial manner. Similarly, such curatorial engagements further problematize the relationship between ethics, aesthetics and politics. This workshop would also attempt to re-visit some of the important events in the history of artistic and curatorial interventions across the world, in order to conceptualize newer frameworks of the relationship between art and politics. It seeks to address the question of whether art has the potential to engage a zone of conflict in a way that is different or sets it apart from politics
Dates: 6th to 11th February 2012.
Those who aspire to be selected for the workshop have to send-in a 150 to 300 word abstract/concept note/synopsis of a curatorial project s/he would like to conceptualize to artcurationworkshop@gmail.com along with a short in running text (i.e. of 300 words) and a long Curriculum Vitae/Bio-data and with postal address and phone numbers.
The concept note should be comprised of:
1) The rationale and contemporary relevance of the project, especially in the context of the thematic focus of the workshop.
2) The spatial dynamics of the project, which include where the curation is going to take place, what are the interventions one is expecting through this selection of space and an initial idea about the reorganization of space (all of these has to be elaborated further in the primary presentation of the project in the workshop).
3) It is not mandatory that every project should be directly linked with museum curation as such, on the contrary, proposals which problematize the existing museum curatorial practices outside the museum spaces, which deal with specific questions regarding the challenges of curating popular culture etc. are also equally welcomed.
The longer version of bio-data should include the following details:
1. Why do you think that the participation in the workshop and its thematic focus may enrich your project?
2. As learning and sharing experience, what are your expectations from this workshop?
3. If your proposal is derived out of an ongoing project then provide a brief report of the project. If it is a completely new project then provide a description about your specific interests regarding this particular project.
The Last date for receiving the concept note, long and short CV for the Jammu workshop:26th December, 2011. Send it to <artcurationworkshop@gmail.com>
Following completion of the screening of applications, the selected participants would be intimated through email by 4th January 2012.
All the presentations will be followed by discussions and will be interspersed with lecturers by resource persons.
On the basis of the feedback received, the participants will re-write their curatorial concept notes and make a second or even third presentation.
Further feedback process will be put in place through the website allowing learning from participants from other workshops, thereby leading from one workshop into the next. The website will be an important tool to allow this continuum.
Facilities
The selected participants will be provided with reading list or reading materials, travel (2nd A/C train fare, taxi/auto fare within the city), accommodation and local hospitality.
The following would be the components of the six day’s activity at the workshop:
(1) Presentation/lecture by one Resource Person each on all the six days, usually from 11.30 – 1. 00 pm. That includes discussion time for about half an hour.
(2) During the first two days of the workshop time will be devoted for discussing the conceptualizing of the thematic and the organizational/practical aspects of curatorial projects by the Participants. This will be done in three small groups each of which will have five Participants and two/three or more Resource Persons. On the second day the Resource Persons of the groups will be changed.
(3) There will be summing-up/reporting by each of the Resource Persons to the entire group at the end of each day (4 to 6 pm.) in the Open House.
(4) The third day will be for all the participants to briefly present/discuss their projects in the Open House. Feedback will follow each presentation.
(5) The forth day will be for discussing in smaller groups again the issues and questions raised in the third days Open House presentations/feedback. The Resource Persons and Group Members will be shuffled on the fourth day too.
(6) The fifth day will be for presenting the final version of the concept note by all the participants. Open discussions will follow each presentation.
(7) The sixth day will be for summing-up and feedback.
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