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Curatorial Workshop
| 23-26 June 2020 |
Bucharest Biennale

research exhibition?

The curatorial workshop “handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth” (Tuesday 23-Friday 26 June 2020) will be realised online as part of the Bucharest Biennale 9 “Farewell to Research.”

This four-day workshop invites several programmes and centres of curatorial study, research and education to explore the contemporary art exhibition as both (i) an object of study and (ii) as a site, an agent and a mode of knowledge/knowing/not-knowing/enquiry in its own right. The workshop is structured so that each day focuses on a specific axis of enquiry.

farewell to research

“Farewell to Research” is the 9th iteration of the Bucharest Biennale, and is curated by Henk Slager. The concerns of the overall programme are glossed in the following manner:

“In a manner similar to how Paul Feyerabend once questioned the dominance of rational knowledge in Farewell to Reason … will in turn question the dominant trend of academicized research that has reigned now for at least ten years. Could a farewell to such research produce novel forms of articulation while proceeding from the perspective of visual art? Could we formulate a proposition based on a recomposition of three conceptual spaces (creative practice, artistic thinking, curatorial strategies) that intersect when artistic research takes place? These thoughts will underline the curatorial narrative of the 9th Bucharest Biennale, where an experimental, process-based trajectory will be developed, consisting of a series of keynote presentations, research labs, performative events, curatorial research seminars, symposiums, and publications.” Further discussion here.