“Knowing Through Showing:
Conversations on Curatorial Knowledge”

“Knowing Through Showing:
Conversations on Curatorial Knowledge”

National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Adam Norton, Mars Gravity Simulator in Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, 2011. Exhibition view, Performance Space, Sydney, 2011. Curated by Bec Dean and Lizzie Muller. Photo: Garth Knight.
September 6, 2014
“Knowing Through Showing: Conversations on Curatorial Knowledge”

Tuesday 9 September 2014

UNSW Galleries
Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road
Paddington
Australia

www.niea.unsw.edu.au

“Knowing Through Showing” examines the unique kinds of knowledge produced and deployed through curating. The symposium highlights the diverse possibilities for curatorial practice-based research.

A series of conversations between leading practitioners will illuminate their individual methodologies and explore how they generate new knowledge through their work. Topics include the way curators build new infrastructure, challenge disciplinary boundaries and create contextual and interpretive frameworks for Indigenous knowledge.

A keynote by Honor Harger, Executive Director of the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, examines the relationship between curating and leadership at the confluence of art and science.

The symposium includes the launch of the Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership—an advanced degree that builds on over 20 years of postgraduate education for arts professionals at UNSW Art and Design.

Many of the curators featured in “Knowing Through Showing” have, or are currently working on,  curatorial PhDs at UNSW Art and Design, where our Doctoral program offers world-leading expertise in creative practice-based research. For more information on enrolling in 2015 for postgraduate research or the Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art and Design visit the website.

 

Symposium sessions and speakers include: 

“Infrastructural Activism: Building alternative spaces and critical curatorial networks”
Prof. Terry Smith and Zoe Butt, chaired by Dr. Blair French

“Gallery/Clinic/Laboratory: Engaging with biomedical science and the cultures of therapy”
Vanessa Bartlett, Bec Dean and Felicity Fenner, chaired by Dr. Lizzie Muller

“Con/testing Territories: Navigating Indigenous ways of knowing, embodied archives and communal knowledge”
Brenda L. Croft and Djon Mundine, chaired by Dr. Zanny Begg

 

Schedule:
11am: Symposium
5pm: Launch of the Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership & reception
6pm: Keynote address: Honor Harger, “Curating Art and Science”

 

The symposium is free, but places are limited and registration is essential.

For a detailed schedule, speaker biographies and registration visit the NIEA website.

This event is presented by the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at UNSW Art & Design and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

 

National Institute for Experimental Arts presents "Knowing Through Showing: Conversations on Curatorial Knowledge" at UNSW Galleries

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