During Sept 4th – Sept 10th 2017, Konstepidemin is arranging a residency for five international curators:  Aliaxey Talstou (Belarus), Jacquelyn Davis (USA), Giselle Seung Hee. Lee (South Korea), Anna Jensen (Finland) and Rowan Geddis (England).

During a few intense days, Konstepidemin will create a meeting place where the participating curators will put their individual work as a curator into perspective and come together to reflect upon the role and expression of the curator. The residency is hosted during the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) and GIBCA Extended.

During the residency two seminars are open to the public:

BREAKFAST SEMINAR – CURATOR TALKS
Tuesday September 5th 10.00- 14.00
Konstepidemin, house 10
Konstepidemin welcomes you to an open seminar with our five International Residency Curators during GIBCA, the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. The seminar includes presentations of their curatorial work and reflections upon the curatorial role. During the seminar a complimentary breakfast/brunch will be served. The seminar is held in English. Find out more / RSVP to attend

SEMINAR: THE CURATOR’S PRACTICE
Thursday September 7th 17.00-19.00 
Konstepidemin, house 10
Konstepidemin welcomes you to an open seminar with intenational curators, in which the curatorial role is the main topic. Considering Art’s ever changing focus, what are the most significant areas of conflict for the curator?

While considering the external social and political pressures within society, how can the curatorial practice be developed and be stimulating to both the art scene and society at large? This year’s GIBCA’s theme (secularity) will also be discussed in connection to the seminar. Additional areas of focus may also be introduced by the participating residency curators. The seminar is held in English. Find out more/ RSVP to attend

PARTICIPATING CURATORS

Jacquelyn Davis (USA)
Stockholm based art critic, curator and writer Jacquelyn Davis will present her sentiments on art criticism – as it aspires to remain lucrative – as well as her curatorial/publishing platform valeveil and emergent platforms (e.g., Non Finito, The Lottery). She is influenced by DIY methods, political theory, avant-garde literature and Oulipian constraint. Her projects are often intuitive, call-response experiments which integrate technology and question the efficacy of cross-cultural interdisciplinarity. www.instrumentandoccupation.se

Rowan Geddis’ (UK)
Rowan Geddis’ curatorial practice centers around questions concerning the potential of the performative – situationally, relationally and in a process-focused mode: a live thinking through activity. These issues are explored through the staging of innovative exhibition formats, event-based activity and diverse live works, where a consonant and analogous relationship between display and performance can be tested. Within these scenarios, exhibition making ‘in and of itself’ is not his primary concern, but rather the examination of the mechanics of artistic-process and its relation to an audience.

Anna Jensen (Finland)
Anna Jensen is a curator, researcher, artist, art critic and a feminist based in Helsinki, Finland. Jensen currently works as a doctoral candidate in Aalto University’s project Pori Live – a multidisciplinary project combining artistic approaches and artistic research to urban planning. Her Phd is about the concept of unheimlich (uncanny) in contemporary art and urban space. Jensen is a part of the curator collective Porin kulttuurisäätö. Together with Eliisa Suvanto they have also created the Space Invaders concept that yearly takes over empty and abandoned spaces, creates short duration multidisciplinary projects and thereby takes part in the conversation about public space and existing power relations. In the residency at Konstepidemin, Anna Jensen will present some of her projects and further on explore possibilities for thinking curating as consciously political method of research and how to renew the practice of producing and exhibiting art and knowledge in a nonhierarchical way.

Giselle Lee (South Korea)
Giselle Lee is an independent curator, artist and is a PhD candidate in Hong-Ik School of Architecture in Seoul, South Korea. She will present her work: Sensing Maps Project. It is a series of projects that deals with a variety of human senses in a city.  It focuses on how people can find unaware senses of human through exploring a city. This idea of the project started with the notion that we live in a visualization-dominated society. By taking a multi-sensory approach in exploring spaces Giselle Lee intends to awaken more senses, make the spaces in the city more meaningful and open up for a discussion on how to create a new perception of spaces.

Aliaxey Talstou, (Belarus)
Aliaxey Talstou is a curator, artist, writer and musician from Minsk. In Talstou’s presentation he will talk about socially and politically engaged art in Belarus today and about the position of curator of this area who can be seen as an activist and an agent of social transformation. A brief introduction into the context will be followed by description of three exhibitions that were organized in 2016 in Minsk, Brest and Moscow. Two of them have discussed the issues of xenophobia and patriarchal tradition as well as forced migration in Eastern Europe, the third was an attempt to overlook political agenda in contemporary art of Belarus after 2010.

Schedule September 4th-10th

Contact:
Linda Tedsdotter (artist, curator) tedsdotter@gmail.com
Liv Stoltz (Intendent Göteborgs Konsthall) liv.stoltz@gmail.com