Curatorial / Knowledge

1. Knowledge & the Curatorial, Jean-Paul Martinon
2. Singularity, Irit Rogoff
3. Guest Lecture: Charles Esche

Further information about the sessions can be found below:

1. Knowledge & the Curatorial, Jean-Paul Martinon

In this session, we asked: what do we understand by visual knowledge and
specifically what do we understand by the knowledge imparted by the
curatorial? In order to answer this question, this session focused on a
text by William Carlos Williams. Through this reading, the curatorial
became understood as that which takes place on a stage set up, both
intentionally and un-intentionally by the curator and that the knowledge
that takes place on this stage is paradoxically that which disturbs the
stage itself.

This session explored a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the catalogue of
Lyotard‚s famous exhibition Les Immateriaux and his texts on
postmodernism. Far from assuming that globalisation has simply replaced
postmodernism, this session focused on the impact of the notion of
postmodernism in the context of exhibition practices. Ever since Lyotard‚s
exhibitions, viewers have become more than an eye, they are subjects who
move not within an ordered totality, but within chaos, and their moving
bodies undertake journeys that are no longer formative, but experiential.

2. Singularity, Irit Rogoff