Part II of the Public Seminar
Of(f) Our Times: The Aftermath of the Ephemeral and other Curatorial
Anachronics

Friday, January 27, 2017, 10.30 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. at Kunsthøgskolen i
Oslo

With contributions by Natalie Hope O’Donnell, Lara Khaldi, Sarah
Pierce, Lucy Steeds, Anne Szefer-Karlsen and Jelena Vesić.

Concept:
Rike Frank, Curator and Associate Professor of Exhibition Studies, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Beatrice von Bismarck, Professor for Art History, Visual Culture and Cultures of the Curatorial, Academy of Arts Leipzig

In a series of lectures, presentations, screenings and discussions
"Of(f) Our Times: The Aftermath of the Ephemeral and other Curatorial
Anachronics" critically reflects on the concept of “exhibition history”.
It starts from an understanding of exhibiting as a practice connected
to broader social, economic and political developments while
constituting a medium that generates situational and non-situational
forms of knowledge. In this light, “exhibition history” has to go
beyond techniques of historical analysis and revision. Instead "Of(f)
Our Times" is interested in an understanding that runs counter to the
current canonization and academization of the historical writing on and
referencing of exhibitions. It aims to approach the debates on ‘re-‘,
historiography and historicity from a perspective that acknowledges and
demonstrates the specific qualities of the exhibition as a medium and
its reverberations in and entanglement with other narrative forms (such
as writing, film, performance …) and cultural memories. In dialogue
with artists, curators, and writers the conference thus sets out to
explore modes and methods of curatorial relating, through which the
actualization is rather done “with” exhibitions than “about”
exhibitions.

The seminar aims to address questions such as: How do historical
exhibitions participate in contemporary cultural discourses? How can
‘exhibition history’ as a methodology open up into the present and
future? What are the underlying concepts of history, historiography,
and historicity? And how do they relate to concepts of actualization,
presence, presentism and future? How (and why) can a historical
exhibition get actualized? What role do the material qualities of an
exhibition play in relation to the discursive ones? And what are the
characteristics (and short-comings) of the research and writings on
"exhibition history" so far?

Program

10.30 – 11.00 Introduction
Rike Frank, Curator and Associate Professor of Exhibition Studies,
Kunstakademiet, Oslo
Beatrice von Bismarck, Professor for Art History, Visual Culture and
Cultures of the Curatorial, Academy of Arts Leipzig

11.00 – 11.45 The Community of the Exhibition
Sarah Pierce, Artist

11.45 – 12.30 Visiting ‘an Exhibit’ Anew
Lucy Steeds, Senior Research Fellow for Afterall at Central Saint
Martins (CSM)

Lunch

14.00 – 14.45
Lara Khaldi, Independent Palestinian Curator, currently teaching at the
International Academy of Art, Palestine, Ramallah and at Dar Al-Kalima
University College of Arts and Culture, Bethlehem; Interlocutor for the
upcoming Sharjah Biennial 13 project in Ramallah.

14.45 – 15.30
Jelena Vesić, Independent curator, writer, editor, and lecturer,
explores relations between art and ideology in the field of
geopolitical art history writing, focusing on experimental art and
exhibition practices of the 1960s and 1970s in former Yugoslavia and
Eastern Europe; Haus der Kunst Munich Goethe Fellow.

Coffee

16.00 – 16.30 A Memoir of an Exhibition
Anne Szefer-Karlsen, Curator, writer and editor, and currently
Associate Professor for MA Curatorial Practice, University of Bergen

16.30 - 17.00 Keeping time: ‘Prosjekt i Gamlebyen’ (PiG) and
‘Munchmuseet on the Move’
Natalie Hope O’Donnell, Curator, and currently the curator of
Munchmuseet on the Move (2016–2019)

17.00 – 17.45 Panel Discussion with all participants

18.00–19.00 Book Launch
Launch of the publication Spaces for Art in Oslo: Prosjekt i Gamlebyen
– PiG (1994), published by the Munch Museum and designed by Eller med a
& Eriksen/Brown. A complimentary copy will be available to those
attending the launch.


Abstracts online from December 20, 2016:
http://www.khio.no/events/154

Participation in the conference is free. Due to limited seating, we
kindly ask for registration until January 16, 2017. Please email to:
Sofie.Amalie.Andersenkhio.no