The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist
e-flux projects
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
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The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist
with new contributions by: Marina Abramovic, Pawel Althamer, Dara Birnbaum, Daniel Buren, Liam Gillick, Jonathan Monk / Isabell Heimerdinger, Serkan Ozkaya, Boris Ondreicka
Curated by Jens Hoffmann
In the discussion forum: numerous comments and contributions on the subject by artists, curators, writers and others.
We are pleased to present the third and final installment of The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, and to announce a forthcoming print publication and a conference on this project. The book launch and conference will take place on April 8th – 9th, 2004 at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul.
Conference participants: Daniel Buren, Jens Hoffmann, Vasif Kortun, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serkan Ozkaya, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Tino Seghal and Anton Vidokle
All are welcome, admission is free.
The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist is available from Revolver (Archiv fur aktuelle Kunst)
www.revolver-books.de and selected book stores world wide
ISBN 3-936919-05-4
Designed by Christoph Steinegger/INTERKOOL
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The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist
What happens if artists take over and occupy territory usually reserved for curators? What happens if artists are asked to propose a concept for a large-scale group exhibition and to take control over a prestigious show such as Documenta? These are some of the questions that The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist is trying to investigate. The title of this project is less a demand than a question. A question that does not articulate a critique of previous Documenta exhibitions but rather investigates, in a provocative way, the relationship, which artists have to the profession of curating. For this project a diverse group of artists has been invited to reflect upon the conditions of the relationship between artists and curators. More importantly, the artists were asked to propose a brief concept of how they could imagine putting together an exhibition such as Documenta.
Between July 2003 and February 2004 around 30 artists’ contributions will be presented on the e-flux web-site: www.e-flux.com. An area for discussion and comments for the audience of this project will be available inviting everyone to comment on the overall idea of the project, the contributions of the artists or even to post their own ideas for a Documenta. The generated material will be presented in a book published in collaboration with Revolver press in April 2004.
Curated by Jens Hoffmann
Participants:
Marina Abramovic
Pawel Althamer
John Baldessari
Ricardo Basbaum
Laura Belem
Dara Birnbaum
Daniel Buren
AA Bronson
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Morgan Fisher
Liam Gillick
Joseph Grigely
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Isabel Heimerdinger
Federico Herrero
Alfredo Jaar
Tim Lee
Ken Lum
Dorit Margreiter
John Miller
Jonathan Monk
Boris Ondreicka
Serkan Ozkaya
Florian Pumhosl
Martha Rosler
Julia Scher
Markus Schinwald
Tino Sehgal
Lawrence Weiner
To view full texts please go to: www.e-flux.com