events
Lina Džuverović
Minna Henriksson
Sezgin Boynik
Katarzyna Kosmala
Maria Hlavajova
Rael Artel
Ásmundur Ásmundsson
Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
Blind Spots (Mother Tongue):
Nana Adusei-Poku
Eddie Chambers
Loulou Cherinet
Power Ekroth
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| | Post-graduate students of SGSAH HEIs, please contact CEFs if you would like support for your travel to these symposia ("in the form of public transport at economy/advance fares" - SGSAH). CEFs can be contacted at (Leigh French) L.French1@student.gsa.ac.uk Symposia are open to the public and "free but ticketed", available from the CCA box office.
| Background There are sixteen Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across Scotland - the Members of the SGSAH are listed here: http://www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/ The SGSAH Cohort Development Fund scheme allows the SGSAH Panels to support training initiatives directed towards supporting the disciplinary & interdisciplinary training needs of doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities. The Fund aims to support SGSAH staff, students & institutions to work collaboratively to develop & improve doctoral training across Scotland. SGSAH Panels may prioritise certain activities for the academic year, strategic priorities for Panel B - (inc.) Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Cultural Policy (Policy, Arts Management & Creative Industries - has identified, amongst other, the following priority:‘Archive': Researching with artefacts & collections in an era of open access & digital humanities.
http://www.sgsah.ac.uk/cohortdevelopmentfunding/panelcriteria/
The cohort for Blind Spots consists of staff/students from: The Glasgow School of Art; Edinburgh College of Art, UoE; Grays School of Art, RGU; University of Stirling.
Other participating organisations include: Mother Tongue, Variant, Framework Scotland, CCA, Queen Margaret University, University of the West of Scotland.
| Blind Spots : Exploring Themes of Race and National Identity in Archives of Visual Art through Curating Blind Spots is a short series of symposia exploring how the construction and use of archives has been approached by curators and artists in order to address exclusions, inequalities, grand narratives and myth-making in contemporary visual art – particularly focusing on the Nordic region and former East and Baltic states as they relate to Scotland. The symposia SGSAH training objective is to explore in dialogue with practice-led and curating students the different archival processes at play across Scotland; to simultaneously point towards archives' construction and use (institutionally as well as in arts practices) whilst also encouraging consideration of what has not been archived, what has been lost, omitted, unimagined. The internationalisation of economies of contemporary art – including curating, as seen in the growth of biennales, for example – renders external engagement in curatorial education essential, and, by being partnered with the discussion series Curating Europes’ Futures and its organising capacities, Blind Spots brings relevant curators, arts practitioners and theorists to Scotland to discuss their work, many of them presenting in Scotland for the first time. Premised on partnership working, Blind Spots is a collaboration with Curating Europes' Futures, public discussions taking place at CCA, Glasgow. Through this collaboration the practice-led aspect of the arts is teamed with the practicality of working with physical archives and archival processes. Blind Spots aims to explore in public dialogue amongst a varied PhD student cohort and peer networks the different archival processes at play across Scotland. As such, the symposia direct attention to curatorial and artistic interventions into archives to be understood as modes of relational practice; the transition between present condition and past artefact as significant for interpreting the archive for art history(s); how the creation and maintenance of archives are inflected through e.g. national interests and place-making, and in doing so emphasising projects that seek to address exclusions, inequalities, grand narratives and myth-making. With experiences of working with visual arts archives in Scotland, exploring the specific focus of race and national identity, as they relate to archives, is timely and addresses a major gap in curatorial studies and art criticism and their education in Scotland. Blind Spots explores approaches to how SGSAH HEI students may (critically) investigate these absences as a way to traverse well-rehearsed narratives of Scotland’s recent art history.
| | | Symposium 1. Tuesday 24 March 2015
Maria Hlavajova & Rael Artel | 18:00 | CCA, Clubroom The first seminar will focus on the former East and Baltic states in terms of geographies, with the curators Rael Artel and Maria Hlavajova discussing the ways in which their projects - such as ‘Public Preparation’ and ‘FORMER WEST’ (respectively) - have focused on issues of national identity, post-communist and post-colonial thought and the rethinking global histories, specifically through the lens of visual art and archival practices. | | Symposium 2. Tuesday 14 April 2015 Yaiza Hernández Velázquez | 18:00 | CCA, Cinema The aim of this discussion is to instigate retrospective readings of “new institutionalism” and how these relate to our thinking around current curatorial practice. For a while, at least, the term “new institutionalism” functioned to refer to putatively “progressive” institutions which, as was often stated, had internalised the institutional critique of previous generations. This talk interrogates the politics of new institutionalism, and indeed, whether the critical stance that seemed to define it was ever operative at more than a thematic level. The case is made that new institutional models are indeed necessary for the continuing vitality of contemporary art but that they will have to go further than merely sheltering or showcasing radical positions. | | go to CCA >> | Symposium 3. Saturday 27 June 2015 Mother Tongue presents Blind Spots | 13:00 | CCA, Cinema | Glasgow Exploring Themes of Race in Archives of Visual Art through Curating with
Nana Adusei-Poku, Eddie Chambers, Loulou Cherinet, Power Ekroth This half-day event will focus on curatorial and artistic interventions into different kinds of archives; asking how the creation or maintenance of archives reflect national interests and place-making; with a particular emphasis on projects that have sought to address racial inequalities, exclusions, grand narratives and myth-making in the visual arts. Focusing on the Nordic region in particular, discussion will explore manifestations of 'whiteness' in northern 'artistic cities', examining any parallels between e.g. Stockholm, Oslo, Glasgow in discussing how Black artists' work is positioned alongside their multiracial heritage. The event is preceded by a film screening of Ruben Östlund’s ‘Play’ (2011, Sweden). Translated excerpts of writer Oivvio Polite’s ‘White Like Me: Selected Texts on Racism’ (Danger Bay Press, Stockholm, 2007) have been translated into English specifically for this event, and will be freely distributed for all audience members. | | |
