Curatorial / Knowledge

1. The Curatorial & Epistemology, Jean-Paul Martinon
2. Ethics and the Curatorial, Jean-Paul Martinon
3. Field Work, Irit Rogoff
4. Presentations: Jenny Doussan and Roberto Cavallini

All readings for seminar 3 can be found on the following link:
http://ck.kein.org/taxonomy/term/3

Further information about the sessions can be found below:

1. The Curatorial & Epistemology, Jean-Paul Martinon

Through a reading of one of Descartes‚s key texts, this session explored
the relationship between the curatorial and the field of study known as
epistemology. This reading established a few notions: that the curatorial
can be the object of scientific enquiry, but cannot be the locus of
scientific enquiry. The curatorial cannot make a distinction between sense
impression and mental inspection or judgement and finally that the realm
of the curatorial necessarily conflates the empirical, the
phenomenological, and the analytical. However, unlike epistemology, the
curatorial is steeped in common experience. It is purely structured by the
contemporary encounter.

2. Ethics and the Curatorial, Jean-Paul Martinon

This session attempted to address the following question: How do curators
think the ethical today? In order to answer this question, this session
focused on extracts of two texts by Emmanuel Levinas and Alain Badiou. The
aim of this reading was not to castigate a profession, propose ethical
curatorial alternatives or a code of conduct for curators, or to return to
identity politics. The aim was to simply consolidate our sense of ethics
in relation to the curatorial and thus to avoid the unavoidable
re-appropriation of the audience to the same: i.e. the westernized, free,
and emancipated curator.

3. Field Work, Irit Rogoff

Readings for seminar 3 can be found on the following link:
http://ck.kein.org/taxonomy/term/3