Curating Workshops

Hello Everyone,

My name is Paddy (also known as Woodrow) Kernohan and Susan has asked my to lead some Curating Workshops with you: the first tomorrow afternoon (18th Feb) and the next on Wednesday 4th March.

In relation to tomorrow's Workshop I have pasted below links to a couple of polar essays as background reading in relation to exhibition/curating history.

Robert Smithson's polemic 'Cultural Confinement' written in the volatile, reactionary climate surrounding Documenta 5 (1972) when Harald Szeemann was the curator (the first of the independent curators):

http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/cultural.htm

And

'Politics of Installation' (2008) by Boris Groys (philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and artist) whose video-essays were exhibited at Cubitt last year (May-June):

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/31

These two pieces sit at either end of the before/after curating timeline and act as oppositional introductions to some of the debates surrounding the role of the curator.

Hope you enjoy!

If any of you want further links to examples of debate around curating etc /seconds is very good resource, and great online journal:

http://www.slashseconds.org/

And after tomorrow's Workshop I'll post some more specific links etc in relation to our discussions, and Le Violon D’Ingres, Under the Table, Work and Play.

Look forward to meeting you tomorrow.
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For some background information on me - I graduated from CFAP in 2003, am currently a Director of Permanent Gallery (http://www.permanentgallery.com/), a Director of Brighton Photo Fringe (http://www.photofringe.org/), Exhibition Curator at The Regency Town House (http://www.rth.org.uk/), and am undertaking a research degree at the Royal College of Art.