Director, Neil MacGregor and staff of the National Gallery with a model of the Sainsbury Wing interior, circa. 1985
Curation seemingly no longer indicates a position held but an action taken, where shops are curated, fashion collections are curated and content should be curated. It implies the selection of objects rather than the care of a community, the visible production of events as opposed to the invisible preservation of a collection. Moving image artworks, perhaps due to their temporal and experiential nature, share a particular affinity to this peculiar position, film curating often taking a more live and transitory, programming role. Yet as many artworks now occupy a number of different temporary visibilities, in terms of where they are shown and their constituent parts, both programming and exhibition making are problematised by their representative, as opposed to mainly preservative, responsibility to works. In short, the discriminating function of taste as both inclusive and exclusive. This series of six conversations with contemporary curators will begin to critically examine some of the conceptual and practical issues around curation through the specific conditions of moving image works. Each session will consist of a one hour conversation with screening followed by a one hour group discussion. In terms of professional practice, labour relations and the cost of display, digital, video and film formats, live screening, online domain and exhibition space, the core task will be to discuss, as practitioners, artists, curators, researchers and viewers, what you think needs to be shown, why it should be shown and the responsibility of making these things visible. Conversations with Pieternel Vermoortel, Mark Webber, Stuart Comer, James Richards, Marialaura Ghidini and Jamie Stevens. The course will be lead by writer and curator Gil Leung.
A Conversation about Distributed Forms, Moving Images and Filmic Conventions FormContent is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 by Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva and Pieternel Vermoortel in London’s East End. After five years of intense work with more than 35 exhibition inside and outside the UK, after a rich program of performances, events, publications and commissions, FormContent decided to close its space and work on a 15-month nomadic project titled ‘It’s moving from I to It’. FormContent is now directed by Francesco Pedraglio and Pieternel Vermoortel with Anca Rujoiu as curator. http://formcontent.org/about/
A Conversation about Little Stabs at Happiness, Shoot Shoot Shoot and Festival Programming Mark Webber is an independent curator of artists’ film and video, and a programme advisor to the BFI London Film Festival. Major projects to date include Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers’ Co-operative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966-76, Reverence: The Films of Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow) and Expanded Cinema: Film as Event, Spectacle and Performance. He is currently preparing several publications including Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos and Critical Mass: An Oral History of Avant-Garde Film. Together with Gregory Kurcewicz, B.R. Wallers and Zo Miller, Webber presented the music and film club Little Stabs at Happiness at the ICA from 1997 to 2000. He also plays guitar in the pop group Pulp.
A Conversation about Black Box, White Cube, Grey Space and Expanded Cinema Stuart Comer is the curator of Film at Tate Modern, London, UK. Comer oversees film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays, is co-curator for the opening program of The Tanks at Tate Modern, and organizes an extensive program of screenings, performances, and events. He is editor of Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing, 2009) and has contributed to several publications and numerous periodicals including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Mousse, Parkett, and Art Review.
A Conversation about Archives, Cinema Programmes, Video Editing and Emotion James Richards (born 1983, Cardiff) lives and works in London. Recent solo shows have been held at CCA Kitakyushu (2012) Chisenhale, London and RODEO, Istanbul (both 2011). He has also curated screenings for a number venues including Pleasuredome, Toronto, ICA, London, Serpentine Gallery, London and Light Industry, New York as well as collaborating with Dan Kidner and George Clark on the exhibition Infermental, Focal Point Gallery, Southend in 2010. Recent collaborative projects include An Echo Button, with Ed Atkins and Haroon Mirza for Performa 11 (2011) and DISAMBIGUATION with Steve Reinke, Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2010). He is shortlisted for the 2012 Jarman award and will be resident in Berlin with the DAAD in 2013.
A Conversation about Digital Presence, Moving Objects and Where the Work is Marialaura Ghidini is a curator, researcher and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is founder and director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com, a project devoted to promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media and exploring the creative and critical possibilities of the web as a language, medium and subject. She is co-curator at Grand Union, an artist-led project space and studios in Birmingham, for which she has organised the residency programme ‘Search Engine’ and a series of collaborative exhibitions and sound performances. Marialaura is currently a PhD researcher on an AHRC studentship with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) at the University of Sunderland, researching in the field of online curating with a specific interest in the theory and practice of artistic and curatorial work operating between the online and offline dimensions.Other curatorial projects include James Taylor Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and The Showroom Gallery.
A Conversation about Responsibility, Argument, Rhetoric and Funding Jamie Stevens is a curator based in London. He is the current Cubitt Curatorial Bursary Holder and was previously Exhibitions & Events Organiser at Chisenhale Gallery and is co-editor of publishing project Benedictions.
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