This year’s Public Program of the Curatorial School focuses on collectives. On the weekend of 22-23 November we welcome representatives from three different collectives to discuss varying aspects of their artistic and curatorial practice touching upon diverse issues as anxiety and normativity, broadcasting and positive destruction, slow-down and friendship. However, collectives may be way more omnipresent as we imagine, once we think of them not only as a form of organization, but a method, logic, composition and cooperation to be found both in nature and across social fields. In a certain way, we have always been “collective”. In his talk, Grégory Castéra will introduce us to the both complex and visionary world of what a “collective” could be while encountering collective methods and values being assimilated and reinvented by engineering, management, marketing, and by most contemporary political ideologies. The guiding question, as Castéra puts it, will be: How the present and future collective practices can foster better social understandings, encourage new forms of solidarity and improve living conditions for everyone?
Program:
COLLECTIVELY
with Grégory Castéra
ANXIETY EPIDEMIC
with Barbora Kleinhamplová (The Institute of Anxiety)
POSITIVE TENSION (ON CURATING)
with Apparatus 22
ON GIFTS, BROADCASTING, POSITIVE DESTRUCTION AND BLANK AUGURI
with Apparatus 22
FROM FRIENDSHIP TO COLLECTIVE, INSTITUTION AND BACK
with Peter Sit & Apart Collective
