Launch
15.06.21

Joint event: On the Question of Exhibition pt.1 launch/ Opening of Compost, Kathrin Böhm: Turning the Heap

Online

Participants

Nick AikensKathrin BöhmLily HallJyoti MistryElvira Dyangani OseMick Wilson

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A live online event bringing together the opening of Compost. Kathrin Böhm: Turning the Heap at The Showroom and the launch of PARSE journal issue 13: On the Question of Exhibition

Joining from The Showroom: Kathrin Böhm, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Lily Hall
Joining from PARSE: Nick Aikens, Jyoti Mistry and Mick Wilson

The Showroom and PARSE invite you to a joint event to mark the opening of Compost. Kathrin Böhm: Turing the Heap at the Showroom and the launch of On the Question of Exhibition part 1 the latest journal issue from PARSE.

A central contribution in the new issue of PARSE is a discussion between artist Kathrin Böhm, Yolande van der Heide, Exhibitions Curator at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Gavin Wade, Director of Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Franciska Zólyom, Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig; framed in response to Böhm’s use of exhibition across both art and non-art contexts. This curatorial-cum-editorial dialogue uses the methodology of composting as a process of collaborative reflection. Turning to possible future strategies of exhibition-making, Böhm reflects on her exhibitonary practice. The conversation highlights Böhm’s experience and tactics of a ‘one-to-one’ scale that disrupts spectatorship and collides making and showing in the same moment.

Schedule (CET time)

17.30-17.35 Welcome from The Showroom
17.35-18.00 Introduction from Jyoti Mistry and Nick Aikens, PARSE journal

18.00-18.05 Short break

18.05-18.25 Video tour of Compost at The Showroom led by Kathrin Böhm

18.25-18.40 Reflections on usership as instituting gesture, led by Elvira Dyangani Ose
18.40-19.00 Conversation between Mick Wilson, editor of On the Question of Exhibition and Kathrin Böhm
19.00-19.15 Q&A
19.15-19.30 Open zoom room and live feed video to Compost at The Showroom

The event will begin with an introductory exchange between Jyoti Mistry and Nick Aikens, co-editors of On the Question of Exhibition, followed by a video tour of Compost at The Showroom led by Kathrin Böhm, in which she will explain the processes of piling-up, filing and fertilising. The Showroom’s director Elvira Dyangani Ose will then introduce the exhibition and its mode of usership as an instituting gesture; and Mick Wilson, co-editor of On the Question of Exhibition, will reflect with Böhm on her exhibitionary strategies. There will be time for questions and answers at the end followed by an open zoom room with live-feed to the exhibition space at The Showroom.

 

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Contributors

Nick Aikens

Nick Aikens is currently PhD candidate at HDK Valand, University of Gothenburg and research curator at the Van Abbemuseum (since 2012). Recent and ongoing projects have focused on the 1980s and specifically the UK Black Arts Movement via a series of exhibitions and the publication ‘The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain’ (2019, co-edited with Elizabeth Robles), a retrospective / monograph on Rasheed Araeen (2017-19) and the exhibition / research project ‘Yael Davids: A Daily Practice’ (2017-ongoing). He leads the current research programme Deviant Practice at the Van Abbe. He was a Research Affiliate, CCC at the Visual Arts Department, HEAD, Geneva (since 2016 – 2018) and a member of the editorial board for L’Internationale Online (since 2013). He has been a tutor at the Dutch Art Institute ( 2013 – 2019) and at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2015-17).

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Kathrin Böhm

Kathrin Böhm is a London-based artist working internationally whose practice focuses on the collective re-production of public space; economy as public realm; and the everyday as a starting point for culture. In 2020 Böhm stopped starting new projects and is currently composting what she has produced as an artist so far, in order to make fertiliser for evolving long-term infrastructures Company Drinks; The Centre for Plausible Economies; and the Rural School of Economics.

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Lily Hall

Lily Hall is a curator at The Showroom, London, and combines this with an interdependent curatorial practice with a focus on collaborative, process-oriented modes of production. Selected recent international curatorial projects include Muros Blandos, ser entre bordes, [Soft Walls, Being Between Borders], co-curated with Daniela Berger and Mette Kjærgaard Præst at Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile, 2017-18; Jaroslav Kyša: Fifth Force at Zahorian & Van Espen, Prague, 2018; Surface Tensions, Pavla and Lucia Scerankova at Pump House Gallery, London in partnership with Czech Centre, London, 2017.

Lily has worked in curatorial and editorial capacities with Calvert 22 Foundation (2012-15), Raven Row (2016) and Chisenhale Gallery (2017) amongst others; and on collaborative projects within and beyond these institutional frameworks, often exploring the spaces between publishing, experimental print-based platforms and exhibition making as a curator and writer. Between 2016-17 she was a member of the jury for the Oskár Čepan Award for contemporary art, Slovakia. Recent teaching and visiting lecturer roles have included contributions at the School of Fine Art (MPhil/PhD programmes) at the Royal College of Art, London, 2017; and Exhibition Studies (MRes programme) at Central St Martins, London, 2019-21. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and BA in Art History and Literature from the University of East Anglia, UK.

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Jyoti Mistry

Jyoti Mistry is Professor in FILM at Valand Academy and works in film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. She has made critically acclaimed films in multiple genres and her installation work draws from cinematic traditions but is often re-contextualized for galleries and museums that are outside of the linear cinematic experience. Select film works include: When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017), Impunity (2014), 09: 21:25 (2011), Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit (2010) and I mike what I like (2006).

Select publications include: we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination (2012) a collection of essays inspired by her film which explores the complexity of racial identity in South Africa. Gaze Regimes: Films and Feminisms in Africa (2015). Places to Play: practice, research, pedagogy (2017) explores the use of archive as an exemplar entry to rethink colonial images through “decolonised” film practices. She has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of African Cinema: “Film as Research Tool: Practice and Pedagogy” (2018).

She has taught at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), New York University; University of Vienna; Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki, Nafti in Accra and Alle Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. Mistry has been artist in residence in New York City, at California College of Arts (San Francisco), Sacatar (Brazil) and a DAAD Researcher at Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University (Berlin). In 2016-2017 she was Artist in Residence at Netherlands Film Academy. In 2016 she was recipient of the Cilect (Association of International film schools) Teaching Award in recognition for innovation in practices in film research and pedagogy.

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Elvira Dyangani Ose

Elvira Dyangani Ose has been the Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom, London for the past two years. She is currently affiliated to the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, and the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. Until November 2018, she served as Creative Time Senior Curator, where she most recently curated the 11th edition of their Summit. She is currently curating the publications of 34th Bienal De São Paulo and is the Curator for the PHotoESPAÑA, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts 2021.

Dyangani Ose was Curator of the eighth edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary art, (GIBCA 2015) and Curator International Art at Tate Modern (2011-14). Dyangani Ose has published and lectured on modern and contemporary African art and has contributed to art journals such as Nka and Atlántica. She studied a Doctoral Degree in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University, New York; has a MAS in Theory and History of Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona; and a BA in Art History from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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Mick Wilson

Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin, and is currently Professor of Art at Hdk-Valand, University of Gothenburg. He was previously a Fellow at BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands (2018/2019); Head of Valand Academy (2012-2018); Editor-in-chief PARSE Journal for Artistic Research (2015-2017); and founder Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Ireland–GradCAM– (2008–2012).  Co-edited volumes include: Curating After the Global (MIT Press, 2019) with P. O’Neill, L. Steeds and S. Sheikh; Public Enquiries: PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn (BDP, 2018) with G. Zachia et al; How Institutions Think (MIT Press, 2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (MIT Press, 2016) both with P. O’Neill and L. Steeds; Curating Research, Open Editions/De Appel (2014); Curating and the Educational Turn, Open Editions/De Appel (2010) both with P. O’Neill; and SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education, ELIA (2013) with S. van Ruiten.

Current research interests include questions of: political community with the dead; the political imaginaries of foodways; political imaginaries within curatorial practice / exhibitionary forms; and rhetorical form / method discourse in processes of knowledge conflict. Recent / forthcoming essays include: “White Mythologies and Epistemic Refusals: Teaching Artistic Research Through Institutional Conflict”, in R. Mateus-Berr & R. Jochum (eds.) Teaching Artistic Research, De Gruyter, 2020; “Living the Coming Death”, in M. Hlavajova and W. Maas (eds.) BASICS #1: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living, Tentative and Urgent, MIT Press, 2019; and “What Is to Be Done? Negations in the Political Imaginary of the Interregnum”, S. H. Madoff (ed.) What about Activism? Sternberg Press, 2019.

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