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INSTRUCTOR: Misal Adnan Yıldız with Guests
PROGRAM: Art & Curatorial Practice
CREDIT(S): 2
DATE: Sundays, August 16, 23, 30, September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4
TIME: 11 AM - 1:30 PM ET
DESCRIPTION: Is it possible to define curatorial practice today without extending its horizons through rethinking the educational, institutional and also the paracuratorial? How will the brief history of curating evolve into future? Do current forms of mediation and negotiation in the art world really function for diverse audiences? Bringing the recent roles attributed to “the curator” such as an activist, comrade or educator, this Survey Seminar engages critical methodologies from leading curatorial research and practices. Firstly as a mental space for thinking through and together with artistic practices, curating is not only a dramaturgical setting in the sense of a spatial and conceptual staging of artworks and their interconnectedness, but also a series of audience-engaged, discursive processes aimed to connect to the larger real of social. As A series of conversations, the Seminar will focus on the questions of curating and exhibition making as an extended field for new publics. Moderated by Misal Adnan Yıldız, it will connect significant collaborations, networks and projects with shared commonalities of ethics, community, collectivity and political agenda in the field.
August 16: Prologue by Misal Adnan Yıldız
August 23: Maria Lind
August 30: Mohammad Salemy
September 6: Çağla İlk
September 13: Fulya Erdemci
September 20: Binna Choi
September 27: Agustín Pérez Rubio
October 4: Epilogue by Misal Adnan Yıldız
Image: Performance by A.S.S. Collective, “Co, 1. Act 2018” for the Mutterzunge Launch at Babylon, Berlin Photo: Ingo Arend. Misal Adnan Yıldız’s Mutterzunge was one of the winner proposals for Curate Award 2013 co-organised by QAM and Fondazione Prada proposing to revisit Berlin based author Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s legendary book with the same title in her city.
In the fifth session, we explore how different strands of Sellarsian school proposed to rehabilitate the legacy of German Idealism in the wake of new naturalist and functionalist approaches to the philosophy of mind. Looking at works by Jay Rosenberg, Richard Rorty, John McDowell,Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance, and Sebastian Rodl we will see how this tradition attempted not only an approximation to several canonical figures commonly associated with the Continental tradition but also thought of an integral philosophical practice which would include the concerns of both traditions.
Extending on this trajectory, in the sixth session, we look at the contrast in contemporary approaches to Hegelian scholarship and the valences of the dialectical method today: the Pittsburgh Hegelian school on the side of the analytic tradition, and the Lacanian-Slovenian school on the side of the Continental tradition.
In the seventh session, we delve into contemporary ontologies of world-building and systematic philosophy in both traditions, contrasting the modal realist metaphysics proposed by Nelson Goodman in Of Mind and Other Matters to the transcendental phenomenology of worlds proposed by Alain Badiou in Logics of Worlds.
Finally, in the eighth session, we briefly survey some prominent contemporary attempts to destratify the difference between the continental and analytic schools altogether, bringing a holistic approach that would synthesize the methods and insights of both traditions at once. We show how this contemporary approach challenges the myopia of specialization characteristic of the analytic tradition, while refusing the relativistic and skeptical tendencies associated with much of the Continental tradition, attending in particular to certain works by Fernando Zalamea, Lorenz Puntel, Ray Brassier and Reza Negarestani.
Image: Wassily Kandinsky, Circles in a Circle, 1923
