Artist-curator Relations: Strategies for Creative Collaborations
Online course by Node Center with Gris García
Duration: Jan 20 – Feb 17, 2022
Fee: 174€
Max seats: 28
Enroll before: Jan 15, 2022
Live sessions: 2 hrs/week
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New forms of curating have emerged calling for new, deeper, collaborative and inclusive ways to work with and relate to artists. The art world is no longer about a top-down curatorial approach. It is about constellations created by artist-curator complicities. How can we get involved with each other? How to work together and foster long-term relationships? How to co-produce projects that reflect deep engagement and understanding of the artists’ work?
Through an array of creative games and techniques that are designed to improve communication skills and strengthen collaborations, this course aims to give you the tools to develop rich and meaningful artist-curator relations.
Program
Session 1: Introductions
- Introduction to the program and course overview.
- A brief introduction to the concept complicity
- The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.
Session 2: Artist-curator relations
- Different examples of how curators and artists work
- Diplomacy; ethics and professionalism
- Hospitality: the friendly parasite
- Boundaries and clear communication
- Expectations, obligations, control (or not) who makes what
- Good fences make good neighbors: Responsibilities & Fees
Session 3: Deep Listening
- The first approach
- Reviewing portfolios
- Listening skills to get involved
- The role of imagination in conversations
- Getting the most out of studio visits
Session 4: Making-with as a methodology
- Sympoiesis: a term developed by Donna Haraway, a word for worlding-with, in company
- How to un-hierarchize conversations
- Creating complicities to be in the same boat
- Finding a common language and making glossaries for a better understanding.
- Fostering long-lasting relationships
Session 5: Creative processes
- Creative collaboration: different strategies and possibilities
- Deepening artistic processes: Pedagogical methodologies for understanding of the artists’ work
- Chance and Serendipity as tools to create
- Oracles and games to provoke unexpected conversations and uncover hidden paths