Cătălin Gheorghe

Tuesday early afternoon—Presentation

Farewell to Research. Welcome to Rescription.

‘A rescription is a writing back, an answering of a letter, and I am referring to a kind of reconsideration of the actual socio-political conditions in a format of exhibition. In trying to answer to the question of exhibition as poetics, genre, and apparatus, I will enunciate some ideas, among others, about a dystopic new exhibitionary turn, the promise of transpositions in xeno-spaces, and the implications of an exhibitionary bildung.’

Cătălin Gheorghe is a theoretician, curator and editor based in Iași, Romania. As Associate Professor, he teaches ‘Theories and Practices of Artistic Research’, ‘Curatorial Studies and Practices’, ‘Applicative Visual Studies’, and ‘Aesthetics of Visual Arts’ at “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iași. He is the editor of ‘Vector–critical research in context‘ publication series (since 2005) and the curator of ‘Vector-studio for art practices and debates’ (since 2007), which is a platform for critical research and art production based on the understanding of art as experimental journalism. Since 2004 he held a series of talks, based on critical research and curatorial practices, at art schools and institutions in Aarhus, Bucharest, Budapest, Kishinev, Cluj-Napoca, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iaşi, Innsbruck, Kassel, Kyiv, London, Madrid, Manchester, Malmö, Paris, Vaasa, Vienna, Zürich. As a curator he produced, also in collaboration, a series of projects for Periferic Biennial (Iaşi), Stadtturmgalerie (Innsbruck), documenta12magazine (Kassel), International Contemporary Art Center (Bucharest), Frieze Projects 2010 (London), Salzburger Kunstverein, Projects & Spaces (Viennartfair 2011), Preview Berlin 2011, Camera Plus. Biennial of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image in Iași (2016), French Institute in Romania, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest). 

Fields of interest: critical artistic research, curatorial critical practices, art as experimental journalism, contemporary art (political) theories, xeno-spaces, xeno-practices, trans(ex)positions, post-capitalism.