Talks
Dorothee Richter & Ronald Kolb
Conference: Contemporary Art Biennials – Our Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergency
27 June 2020, 10.00 am
Introduction by Dorothee Richter & Ronald Kolb
Dorothee Richter is Professor in Contemporary Curating at the University of Reading, UK, and Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, CAS/MAS Curating, which she founded in 2005 at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland; She is director of the PhD in Practice in Curating Programme, a cooperation of the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Reading. Richter has worked extensively as a curator: she was initiator of Curating Degree Zero Archive, Curator at Kuenstlerhaus Bremen. She is Executive Editor of the web journal On-Curating.org.
Ronald Kolb is a researcher, designer, curator, and Co-Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zurich University of the Arts, and Editor at Large of the web journal On-Curating.org and honorary vice chairman of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. He studies at the PhD in Practice in Curating programme, University of Reading, Zurich University of the Arts.
www.curating.org/ronald-kolb
The conference is organised by Prof Dr Dorothee Richter (Head of PhD in Practice in Curating, University of Reading/ Zurich University of the Arts) and Ronald Kolb, Scientific researcher PhD in Practice in Curating.) Respondents to the speakers are PhD Candidates of the PhD in Practice in Curating (University of Reading/ Zurich University of the Arts) and students of the MAS in Curating.
The online conference is supported by Goethe Institut Bucharest, The Suisse Arts Council ProHelvetia, and Zurich University of the Arts.