ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning)
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning)
As the world slowly returns to in-person interactions, we want to cultivate what the turbulences of 2020 have made urgently evident: our interconnectedness.
It is a crucial time to come together and promote insightful conversations to support each other as practitioners, and rethink curatorship communally.
That is why Call for Curators inaugurates ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning), a new series of conversations on curatorial practices, livestreaming once a month on Tuesdays at 6.30pm (Berlin time) on our Facebook and YouTube channels.
ALT+SHIFT+COMM brings together a wide spectrum of practitioners to discuss the multiple understandings and possibilities of curating. The series focuses on practices that foster diverse forms of knowledge and critical thinking by focusing on collaboration and cultivating non-hierarchical and non-normative approaches to curatorship. The conversations also address curating as a practice that, by being part of a systems of knowledge production, can spark change in the social, political, and financial infrastructures that allow contemporary art to exist.
Through these conversations we aim to nurture ideas, resources, and solidarity, while reaching across the affective and the intellectual. We want to generate a space of meaningful discourse and consider the responsibilities of curating by focusing on how we do things, rather than just on what we do.
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) is a statement of intent, more than a title. Let’s alter the conversation, shift ground, and commune with each other.
To share your suggestions, write to us at talks@staging.callforcurators.com
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning)
is a series curated by Ilaria Conti
As an independent curator, Ilaria Conti focuses on research-based practices engaging with decolonial epistemologies and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, and civic agency.
Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she served as Exhibitions and Programs Director at CIMA New York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions.
Curated projects include: Pensiero Plurale (2021), Rethinking Nature (2021), Prove di R(i)esistenza (2020), Making Space: Art & Generative Communal Practices (2020), Labor/Art/Auratic Conditions (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence (2017), 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016).
