Notes from the 2020 Curatorial Workshop | 23-26 June 2020 |Bucharest Biennale.
Friday 26 June
The exhibition as a production of ‘public-ness’; the rhetorical framing of the ‘international’ and the ‘local’ in exhibitionary strategies; the exhibition as form of political ‘assembly’ or mobilisation; the performance of political reference and thematics within exhibition; and the spatial and geopolitical conjurings of biennales; these are just some of the ways in which contemporary art exhibitions have been linked to questions of the political imaginary. How might we begin to more precisely interrogate the relationships between the exhibition and the question of political imaginaries? What is at stake in the infrastructural politics of exhibition-making, and does this have any bearing on the question of the imaginary? What is at stake in the geopolitical imaginaries operative in various art world ‘internationalisms’ given the current climate of resurgent populist and ethno-nationalist authoritarianism? What does the rush to online presentation of exhibition manifest? What are the other non-art-exhibitionary logics at work in gathering and ‘showing’ of bodies before power?
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