September 9–17, 2021
Participate in the digital program of the Young Curators Academy. Continuing on September 9, a great variety of lectures, videos and discussions will find their way into your homes via the screen.
The digital Young Curators Academy is an artistic and activist platform to discover alliances, research affinities, and consolidate solidarities. Intersectional makers—artists, thinkers, writers, curators—take part in the Academy’s workshops and develop personal strategies to activate their communities. The focus will fall on care and repair, planetary consciousness, and the search for new forms of international cooperation and joint artistic practice. The program is aimed at those who enable new lines of flight across patriarchal and geopolitical boundaries. In 2021, the digital YCA will also respond to the world after the intervention by the pandemic. How does the absence of presence change resistance, activism, art, and communication? And how can we be together if we are not?
Read the full program here.
All lectures and panels held in the course of the August program of the Digital Young Curators Academy can be accessed through the digital archive on the website.
September 9, 10, 16, 17, from 7am EDT
The Digital Agora
If one understands the creation of commons as a social practice for the formulation of alternative forms of knowledge production and knowledge exchange, in order to challenge accessibility and ownership, we are inside the heart of The Digital Agora.
The Digital Agora is based on the ancient Greek Agora. It is a digital public space which is a gathering place for politics, open studios online and workshops, a market of competing ideas, a place of assembly to hear statements of scientists and artists, different perspectives of activists negotiating different publics, a recharge zone for the body and the spirit, essentially a digital site to hang out.
With contributions by Nora Al-Badri, Frances Breden, Marijn Bril, Thuy-Han Nguyen Chi, Maria Cynkier, Zehra Doğan, Vidisha-Fadescha, Yuan Fuca, Thao Ho, Hanna Husberg, Manuela Infante, Lorena Juan, Lina Majdalani, Agata Marzecova, Rabih Mroué, Julietta Singh, Newsha Tavakolian, Wang Tuo, Shen Xin, Arkadi Zaides.
Directed by Ong Keng Sen
Hosted by Silke Bake, Erden Kosova and Ong Keng Sen
Digital Production: Rabelle Ramez Erian
Curatorial Support: Anne Diestelkamp
Production Management: Lucia Leyser
As part of 5. Berliner Herbstsalon. Funded by the State of Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Europe. In collaboration and with the support of T:>Works International Curators Academy.
