Curating New Centralities
| 27 28 29 | September 2010 | Recife
Fundação Joaquim Nabuco and Made in Mirrors organize a symposium entitled Curating New Centralities due to take place in Recife in the autumn of 2010.
The aim of the symposium is to reunite curators from all parts of the globe (with a special emphasis on the countries represented in the MIM project) with a desire to stage a follow-up of critical ideas, critical of modernity and pragmatically anti-utopian of Gerardo Mosquera’s 1994 anthology: Beyond the Fantastic Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America. According to a statement of Mosquera, „The global world is also, paradoxically, the world of differences“, a fact that Made in Mirrors wants to trigger in our minds and raise awareness for elements that bring us together and elements that turn us apart.
The reason why we chose to stage the symposium in a region that is rarely visited by international curators, is already a statement about the changes in the contemporary art scene. Recife is a very vibrant environment in the poorest region of Brazil. However, the city has been established as one of the most important cities for contemporary art. The next general curator of Sao Paulo Biennial, Moacir dos Anjos, is from Recife. In this context, the issues raised in the symposium find a real context of analysis, a live case study.
Some of the questions and issues by the symposium will be:
How to deal with local necessities and international premises?
Are curators from emerging countries contributing to a new history of art and parameters?
What kind of new cultural geography can we expect?
Is there a common, global ground in a curatorial approach?
Are Western institutes dead; are they dinosaurs?
How does cultural or contextual diversity influence the curating practice?
Should we talk about a program, an agenda or a space instead of an institution?
What is the new curatorial model?
