Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region and Beyond

Symposium.

PASS is co-organizing with PUBLICS to expand the activities of The Centre for Curatorial Thinking in the second, in a series of four annual, interrelated, and cooperative symposia—spanning Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting, and Collaborating—and explores the importance of public discourse across the Nordic-Baltic region, and beyond. In this second symposium, titled Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond, we collectively reflect on the relationship between learning, curatorial thinking, exhibitionary practices, and discourses of the curatorial.

Since the establishment and expansion of curatorial courses in the early 1990s, we have seen many deliberations on different approaches to curatorial education, knowledge production, and on what forms of learning may have enduring impact for the practice of curating and its discourses and histories.

Positioning explicitly considers what specific modes of curatorial thinking-as-learning are taking place across the ever-expanding contemporary curatorial field and are enabled by its diverse educational provisions.

Positioning gathers past and present approaches, knowledges, and critiques within practices of the curatorial. In doing so, the symposium creates a space for dialogue between local and international contemporary art scenes and their practitioners to generate new opportunities for artists, curators and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond is organised by PUBLICS: in Helsinki & Espoo with Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts; in Malmö and Copenhagen with Malmö Konstmuseum, Simian and PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen; in Gothenburg & Stockholm with HDK-Valand and the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm), withCuratorLab, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm and with IASPIS.

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