22/04/2021
ONLINE TALK!
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu & Joanna Warsza: WHAT IF A JOURNEY….? Needs, Limits, Means of Making Art Under Pandemic. On Die Balkone, Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo and other situated projects
Monday, April 26th 2021
2pm - 4pm | (UTC+01:00)
The meeting link can be found on the HGB Website:
https://www.hgb-leipzig.de/hochschule/kalender/1079
Since 2020 have arrived times of challenge for humanity's unsustainable habits, patterns of living and producing on the planet. In this ongoing pandemic experience, the formats of content production in contemporary art have their share, especially in the large-scale exhibitions. While art and culture should remain on the life necessities agenda, our questions and claims as curators need to find a down-to-earth resonance with current needs, limits and means. After 'Die Balkone', a public art initiative in windows and balconies of Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, we welcomed the invitation by the very young Autostrada Biennial initiated by two artists and an educator in Kosovo, where we develop the methodology as art as incomplete conversation, as a recovery and as an unfinished infrastructure, which we will share with you. The onsite conversations with artists, writers, cultural producers, activists, politicians lead to the projects which serve as a response in the daily life and work, and match local needs with artists intuitions. We ask ourselves and you: what is a non-extractivist curating?
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is mentor and program co-leader in the Graduate School in University of the Arts in Berlin and a visiting professor for Art and Discourse in University of the Arts Braunschweig. In her multifaceted practice as curator, writer and educator, she researches intersectional forms and narratives of contemporary political subjectivities. Övül was one of the curators for the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz; curator/director for YAMA public screen in Istanbul; artistic director for the Sofia Contemporary 2013 ‘Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground’. She curated different programs for the 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; coordinated and organized different programs and events at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13).
Joanna Warsza is a Program Director of CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm, and an independent curator interested in how art functions politically and socially outside the white cubes. She was the Artistic Director of Public Art Munich 2018, curator of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, head of public programs for Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg and an associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale among many other projects. She is an editor of more than ten publications in the areas of public art, politics, performativity and feminist theory. Lately she co-edited with Michele Masucci and Maria Lind, Red Love, a Reader on Alexandra Kollontai (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020).
Övül and Joanna co-curate Die Balkone 2021, the 3rd Autostrada Biennale in July 2021, and the 12th Survival Kit in Riga in September 2021.
Image: Stine Marie Jacobsen: German as a Love Language. Die Balkone 2020, Berlin
