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Workshop with Tirdad Zolghadr

Workshop with Tirdad Zolghadr

CAN I SPEAK TO THE MANAGER? A WORKSHOP ON CURATORIAL MEDIATION STRATEGIES WITH TIRDAD ZOLGHADR IN BARCELONA

Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 January, from 15.00 – 20.00

This workshop addresses the politics, tropes and mythologies of “mediation” in curatorial practice. Curators elaborate on art for a variety of reasons – pedagogical aspiration, institutional accountability, professional anxieties. But rarely are these motives considered as such. The means and methods are just as varied, from a faux-naïve embrace of empirical description to a paranoid sheltering of art from contamination by language. Some curators believe in the capacity of language to innocently describe the work, others claim too much descriptive language can actually damage the art’s potential. Our workshop will compare a variety of approaches, and include models from other disciplines. It will further examine the specificities of speech as compared to writing, particularly in light of current discursive practices in the field. Finally, the module will explore notions of referentiality beyond speech and writing altogether.

Tirdad Zolghadr teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College NY. He writes for Frieze Magazine and has also contributed to Parkett, Modern Painters, Bidoun, Cabinet and other publications. Since 2004, Zolghadr has been (co)curator at Cubitt London, IASPIS Stockholm, Kunsthalle Geneva, various Tehran artspaces, the UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009, the Taipei Biennial 2010 and the Sharjah biennial 2005. His second novel, Plot, has been published 2012 by Sternberg Press.

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Price of the workshop: 170 €.

Please consult the different itineraries within the Barcelona Study Programme of A*DESK 2012-2013 to obtain discounts.

The Workshop with Tirdad Zolghadr forms part of the Barcelona Study Programme of A*DESK 2012-2013, that aims to establish an environment for continuous learning, for students and professionals, where questions relating to contemporary creation, cultural mediation –curating and education – and artistic research are reconsidered. The programme extends through until June 2013 and includes the realization of seminars, laboratories and workshops delivered by recognised professionals within different creative fields.

For more information, to reserve a place or matriculate, write to contact@a-desk.org

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