[-empyre-] Welcome to Naeem Mohaiemen: Re: Welcome to Week 2 on empyre: Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally

[Renate Ferro]

My sincere apologies go out to Naeem Mohaiemen who also will be our
guest during Week 2.  Thanks to Naeem for giving me a nudge.  I
incorrectly assumed he was on Week 3.  Thanks Naeem and welcome to
Week 2.  Renate

Naeem Mohaiemen (BD)
Naeem Mohaiemen uses essays, photography, and film to explore
histories of the international left, hyphenated migrant identities,
and utopia-dystopia slippage. His work as part of Visible Collective
was a series of database sculptures, event timelines, and public
seminars which traveled internationally, including the Whitney
Biennial of American Art (in Wrong Gallery) and L'Institut de Islam,
Paris. Since 2006, he has been working on The Young Man Was, a
research project about the 1970s ultra-left. Publications include
Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism,
Collectives in Atomised Time (w/ Doug Ashford, Idensitat Press) and
System Error: war is a force that gives us meaning (w/ Lorenzo Fusi,
Silvana). Essays include " Islamic Roots of HipHop" (Sound Unbound,
MIT Press), "Everybody Wants To Be Singapore" (Carlos Motta: The Good
Life, Art in General), "Asterix and the Big Fight " (Playing by the
rules, Apex Art Journal), and "Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot" (Nobody
Passes: rejecting the rules of gender and conformity, Seal Press).




On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Renate Ferro <rtf9 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Welcome to Week 2 on empyre: Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally
>
> Thank you Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick for launching our first
> week of discussion on Rethinking Curatorial Options, Globally.  Thank
> you for sharing your
> curatorial project Nightsense at Toronto's Nuit Blanche as well as the
> premiere issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies. Most of the
> discussion prompted
> by Jennifer and Jim this past week has revolved around their interests
> in the simultaneous tasks of their curatorial practices where
> criticality and ludic playful participation coexist. Fisher and
> Drobnick expressed a desire to work with artists in actualizing their
> projects through "fluid" curatorial framing.
>
> Thanks to Ashley, Brian, Pedro, Ana and Susan for responding to our
> guests.  Their collective discussions revolved around the potential of
> the curatorial space as being a revolutionary
> one where  “cracks” allowing opening and closing could present
> alternatives or where curatorial tensions that attempted to exist
> “outside the box” allowed for liminal mobile curatorial practice.
>
> While the concrete examples of Nightsense in Toronto and documenta in
> Germany were discussed among others,  most of the posts involved the
> conceptual spaces of the curatorial model. Tim and I would like to
> welcome Aram Bartholl (GE) and Ellen Pau (HK) to empyre with Jennifer
> Fisher (CA) and Jim Drobnick (CA) continuing on.  We have a very long
> list of curators who will be joining us during Week 3 and 4.  Tim and
> I are looking forward to capturing the essence of curating as well as
> how new media gets included in these curatorial models.
>
> Biographies:
> Aram Bartholl (GE)
> Aram Bartholl's work creates an interplay between internet, culture
> and reality. The versatile communication channels are taken for
> granted these
> days, but how do they influence us? According to the paradigm change
> of media research Bartholl not just asks what man is doing with the
> media, but what
> media does with man. The tension between public and private, online
> and offline, technology infatuation and everyday life creates the core
> of his producing. In public interventions and public installations
> Bartholl examines which and how parts of the digital world can reach
> back into reality.
>
>  Aram Bartholl is a member of the Internet based artist group Free,
> Art&Technology Lab - F.A.T. Lab. Net politics, the DIY movement and
> the Internet development in general do play an important role in his
> work. Beside numerous lectures, workshops and performances he
> exhibited at MoMA Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Pace Gallery NY und
> [DAM] Berlin. Aram Bartholl is represented by [DAM] Berlin|Cologne. He
> lives and works in Berlin.
>
> Ellen Pau (HK)
> Ellen Pau is a filmmaker, media artist and curator. Her video works
> have traveled widely to numerous International Festivals and
> Biennials, such as Kwangju Biennial, Video Brazil, City On the Move,
> Johannesburg Biennial, Venice Biennale and Shanghai Biennial. In 1986,
> Ellen Pau founded Asia"s first media artists" collective, "Videotage"
> and the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong.
> She is adviser to HK Museum of Art, HK Art Development Council and a
> number of festivals. She teaches part time in the Visual Art Centre
> and is a full time medical image technologist
>
>
> --
>
> Renate Ferro
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
> Cornell University
> Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
> Ithaca, NY  14853
> Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
> URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
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>
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Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
Ithaca, NY  14853
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
      http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net

Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
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