Seminar 3 // 18 January 2007 // London

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