Archive 2019-20
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating Talk 11
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:30:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:00:00 GMT
Ekaterina Degot (Director and Chief Curator Steirischer Herbst, Austria) is a Russian art historian, curator, researcher and writer focusing on aesthetic and sociopolitical issues in Russia and Eastern Europe from the 19th century to the post-Soviet era. She began her five-year tenure as Director and Chief Curator of Steirischer Herbst in 2018. From 2014 to 2017 Degot was Artistic Director of the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne. Among other shows, she curated the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial in Yekaterinburg (2010, with Cosmin Costinas and David Riff) and headed the first Bergen Assembly with David Riff (2013). Degot lives in Graz.
Bas Vroegefounded Paradox (NL) in 1993 and has been the organisation’s director since then. Paradox produces photography related projects (exhibitions, books, films, websites) driven by a social agenda. Among the projects realised are: Go No Go (on migration in Europe, 2003, with Ad van Denderen), The Last Days of Shishmaref (on global warming with Jan Louter and Dana Lixenberg, 2008), ANGRY(on radicalisation of youth, 2011), Via PanAm (on migration in the Americas with Kadir van Lohuizen, 2013), the movie 9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo(on the war in Syria with Issa Touma in 2015) and Welkom Today (on South Africa after apartheid with Ad van Denderen and Lebohang Tlali and writer Margalith Kleijwegt in 2019). Prior to this Vroegewas director of Perspektief, Centre for Photography, Rotterdam (1981-1993), and the Fotografie Biënnale, Rotterdam (1988-1992). He lectures curatorial practice on the MA in Film & Photographic Studies at the University of Leiden.
Chair: Dr Harry Weeks is Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University. He specialises in the politics of contemporary art production and socially engaged practices. He recently co-edited a special issue of Third Text titled ‘Anti-Fascism/Art/Theory’, and is currently working on a long-term project examining the relationships between labour in the art field and the platform economy.