Curating on the move

Curating on the move

SITUATED KNOWLEDGES – Art and Curating on the Move

A hybrid parallel conference and workshop event of Shared Campus
at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (on-site)
and Migros Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich (online)
25–27 June 2021

Public talks, discussions: 25–27 June 2021, 10:00am–12:30pm CEST / 4:00–6:30pm HKT Workshops: 25–27 June 2021, 1:00–4:00pm CEST/ 7:00–10:00pm HKT
shared-campus.com/themes/cultures-histories-futures/curatorial-workshop/curating-on-the-move-situated-knowledges/

Led by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter (ZHdK), Dr. Cedric Maridet (HKBU)
Organisation: Ronald Kolb (ZHdK)

The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway is a central topic in her concept of feminist objectivity. In her much-cited essay “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” (1988), Haraway assumes that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. For this reason, the concept of Situated Knowledges incorporates the social location and contextual advantages of the researcher into the research process. Against an assumption of an apparently neutral and unmediated Knowledge of the (white, male) Western idea of science and its representation through overview visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of embodied knowledges by drawing on a description of the eye and “vision” (in the broad real and metaphorical sense). There is no such thing as unconditional observation, she argues, because every “acquisition of knowledge” takes place in a dynamic “apparatus of bodily production”.

With this in mind the conference invites artists, curators, educators, scholars and students from the Shared Campus partners and beyond to engage in this programme of public talks and discussions as well as participatory Zoom workshops. The workshops are open to all disciplines and graduate levels.

We are looking forward to engaging discussions of situated practices and transversal interchange!

A parallel conference and workshop event of Shared Campus
at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (on-site)
and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (online)

Led by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter (ZHdK), Dr. Cedric Maridet (HKBU)
Organisation: Ronald Kolb (ZHdK)
Curating on the Move is a travelling international curatorial workshop This conference is part of Shared Campus activities.

The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway is a central topic in her concept of feminist objectivity. In her much-cited essay “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” (1988), Haraway assumes that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. For this reason, the concept of Situated Knowledge incorporates the social location and contextual advantages of the researcher into the research process. Against an assumption of an apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through overview visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of embodied knowledges by drawing on a description of the eye and “vision” (in the broad real and metaphorical sense). There is no such thing as unconditional observation, she argues, because every “acquisition of knowledge” takes place in a dynamic “apparatus of bodily production”.

With this in mind the conference invites artists, curators, educators, and scholars from the Shared Campus partners and beyond to engage in this programme of public talks and discussions as well as participatory Zoom workshops.

Programme

Friday, June 25
Opening remarks 10:00am – 10:15am CEST / 4:00 – 4.10pm HKT
Once Upon a Place 10:15am –11:40pm CEST / 4:10–5:40pm HKT
Panel discussion with Lucy Steeds with John Tain
Situating the São Paulo Biennial 2020-21 12:00 – 12:40pm CEST / 6:00 – 6:40pm HKT
Round table discussion with Michael Asbury and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Five Workshops in parallel 1:00 – 4:00pm CEST / 7:00 – 10:00pm HKT
Workshop 1: Situated Knowledges, Situated Works (Bo Choy & Chloe Ting)
Workshop 2: Curatorial Pitch Karaoke (Gesyada Siregar & Angga Wijaya)
Workshop 3: Curing the Archive Fever: Filling the Gaps through Situatedness (Antonio Cataldo)
Workshop 4: Attunement with More-than-Human Worlds (Karmen Franinovic, Roman Kirschner)
Workshop 5: FoMO FREE RADIO (Nadim Abbas, Rose Li, Edward Sanderson, Lang Tu)

Saturday, June 26
Participatory talk with Jeanne van Heeswijk 10:00am –12:00pm CEST / 4:00 – 6:00pm HKT
Five Workshops in parallel 1:00 – 4:00pm CEST / 7:00 – 10:00pm HKT
Workshop 6: Round table discussion: Transposition (Ron Yakir, Li Xiaoqiao and Rose Li)

Workshop 7: Whisper game: practising attention through caring and pacing (Basia Sliwinska, Caroline Stevenson)
Workshop 8: Integrated and Immersive approaches in curatorial practices: Highlighting the Hong Kong art history (1980s-1990s) in the realm of the contemporary era. (Janet Fong, Choi Yan Chi, May Fung, and Lo Yin Shan)
Workshop 9: Scores – From Situated Knowledges to Shared Action (Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb)
Workshop 10: Transforming Situated Experience into Situated Knowledges (Katalin Erdődi)

Sunday, June 27
Situating the Gap with Angela Dimitrakaki 10:00 – 11:10am CEST / 4:00 –5:10pm HKT
Against Political Naturalism with Yuk Hui 11:20 – 12:30 am CEST / 5:20 – 6:30 pm HKT

Five Workshops in parallel 7:00 – 10:00pm HKT / 1:00 – 4:00pm CEST
Workshop 11: Cloth Knowledge: Sculpting with a Missing Corner (Debe Sham, Georgia Kennedy)
Workshop 12: Situated Knowledges and Multidirectional Memory (Noit Banai, Dani Gal)
Workshop 13: Emancipating Alexa (Maayan Sheleff, Ruth Patir)
Workshop 14: Digital Choreography (Be van Vark)
Workshop 15: Six Degrees of Separation: Curatorial Practice/Objects of Desire (Alison Green, Lee Weinberg)