Archive 2018-19
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating Talk 9
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:15:00 BST
- End: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 19:00:00 BST
Bassam El Baroni is assistant professor in curating and mediating art at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland and visiting lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute MA programme, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, the Netherlands. He is the former director of Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 2005 - 2012, a now closed non-profit art space in Alexandria, Egypt and has curated or co-curated projects such as Manifesta 8 (Murcia, 2010); Eva International - Ireland’s Biennial (Limerick, 2014); HOME WORKS 7 (Beirut, 2015).
Adam Szymczyk was Artistic Director of Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017. In 1997, he co-founded the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw. He was Director at Kunsthalle Basel from 2004 to 2014. In 2008, he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, When Things Cast No Shadow. He is a Member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Member of the Advisory Committee of Kontakt. Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation in Vienna. In 2011, he received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.
Chair: CHRIS McCORMACKis a writer and associate editor of Art Monthly. He was commissioning editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel) and has contributed numerous essays and texts for catalogues, including James Richards’s Requests and Antisongs, Richard Healy’s Lubricants and Literature and the MIT/Whitechapel anthology Moving Image. Alongside his research into vocal development published as part of the Welsh Pavilion in Venice 2017, Voce di testa, he curated the exhibition and edited the book Anarchic sexual desires of plain unmarried schoolteachers.