Curatorial / Knowledge

Readings can be found by clicking the link below:
http://ck.kein.org/node/216

For more about Wyspa, check out:
http://www.wyspa.netstrefa.pl/index.php?&langu=2

A preliminary schedule for the sessions can be found below:

Thursday 21 June

11am-1pm: Viewing of exhibition "You won't feel a thing," visit of
Shipyard and Studios

You won't feel a thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia is
an exhibition curated by Aneta Szylak at the Wyspa Institute of Art, 2
June- 15 August 2007, with:
Pawel Althamer, Bogna Burska, Ursula Doebereiner, Lili Dujourie, Angelika
Fojtuch, Steffen Geisler, Lise Harlev, Ellen Harvey, Hiwa K., Agnieszka
Kalinowska, Grzegorz Klaman, Piotr Kopik, Jill Mercedes, Sebastian
Meschenmoser, Dominika Skutnik, Pawel Kruk, Dominik Lejman, Yvette Mattern,
Ivan Moudov, Anne Olofsson, Dominik Pabis, Susanne Weirich, Monika Weiss,
Artur Zmijewski. The exhibition is produced by Kunsthaus Dresden, Wyspa
Institute of Art and Adam Mickiewicz Institute and is co-financed by the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland within the framework of the
Polish-German Year 2005/2006.
http://www.wyspa.netstrefa.pl/

2pm-3.30pm: Aneta Szylak: Intro to Wyspa activities and the concept of
institution as fiction

3.30pm-5pm: Dr. Jan Sowa, sociologist, writer, and cultural producer,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Friday 22 June

11am-1pm: Curatorial - Revisited - JP

During our last session, a number of you asked if we could revisit the
notion of the curatorial. With this aim in mind, I will try to revisit
this notion for our session in Gdansk. We will ask if we all agree that
the curatorial represents the event of knowledge taking place on the stage
set up, both intentionally and un-intentionally by the curator and that
this knowledge, far from constituting a body of knowledge is paradoxically
that which disturbs the stage itself. For this session, I have chosen a
short text by Hubert Damisch: Moves – Playing Chess and Cards with the
Museum). If any of you have a text that informs this topic, please ask
Deepa to uploaded onto the web site.

2pm-5pm: Aneta Szylak: Swidzinski & Contextual Art

Jan Swidzinski is an artist and theorist.
http://www.spam.art.pl/html_strony/swidzinski/indexang.html

9pm: De Bali & Modelator Wireless Lan World Chat

Modelator exists as a place to talk about artistic milieu in 3city. Blog
is created by students of history of art at the University of Gdansk, who
are connected with Wyspa Institute of Art and Modelarnia. There is a lack
of public discussion about artistic milieu in 3city. Our ambition is to
change that situation, and to promote young artists who still study. We
invite everybody to critical discussion about events commented by us. We
observe art not only in Gdansk, but also in Sopot and Gdynia, and
unfortunately we are not satisfied. Where is art in Sopot and Gdynia?
Modelator’s staff: Roma Piotrowska, Ola Grzonkowska, Maks Bochenek. Our
homepage: www.modelator.blogspot.com

Saturday 23 June

11am-5pm: Irit - Public

We need to interrupt the sequence of 'action' to 'activism' for one
session and examine the notion of 'public' as it informs the shift from
the first to the second. Following the discussion we had at the last
seminar, we should open this up to input by everyone. I will put online
two texts on the notion of 'public' and I ask that you put forward any
materials you wish that inform your understanding of this concept. If you
have these materials in digitised form, then send them to Deepa and she
will upload them on the temporary website. Otherwise, please consult with
her.

Sunday 24 June

TBC