Dialogue
Tue 31 Aug 2021

On the Question of Exhibition: pt 2 launch

Online: Zoom link to follow.

Participants

Nick AikensBarbara Neves AlvesKjell CaminhaLisa Rosendahl

The launch of PARSE journal issue: On the Question of Exhibition Part 2

What are the similar concerns and disconnects, and the challenges and opportunities of confronting colonial histories in exhibition?

On The Question of Exhibition editor Kjell Caminha moderates a discussion between Lisa Rosendahl, curator of the 2019 and 2021 editions of GIBCA, The Ghost Ship and Sea Change, and author of Part 1 text: The Biennial Form and the Narration of history and designer and researcher Barbara Neves Alves, author of Part 2 text: Turned into Stone: the Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions Today.

 

Schedule:

17:00 Introduction from editor Nick Aikens

17:15 Lisa Rosendahl on the framework behind The Ghost Ship and the Sea Change, exhibitions as important platforms for artists and curators to experiment with historical narration.

17:30 Barbara Neves Alves on Portuguese colonial monument building, exhibitions as powerful tools of propaganda and their legacy.

17:45 Discussion with editors and audience

18:00 end

 

All welcome! Join this event on zoom:

https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/63623714896

also available to watch on the PARSE YouTube live stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclOI7NmnKs

Contributors

Nick Aikens

Nick Aikens is a curator, researcher, editor and educator. He is the Managing Editor and Research Responsible for L’Internationale Online. He assumed his role in August 2023 as part of the four year, EU funded project ’Museum of the Commons’.

Nick has a PhD from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. He was previously Curator at the Van Abbemuseum (2012–2023) where he worked on numerous exhibitions and publications as well as leading the research programme Deviant Practice (2016–2019). He was a tutor and course leader at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem (2012–2019) and Guest Professor in the department of Exhibitions and Scenography at Karlsruhe University (2023–2024).

He co-edited the three part issue of PARSE ‘On the Question of Exhibition’ with Kjell Caminha, Jyoti Mistry and Mick Wilson (2021).

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Barbara Neves Alves

Barbara Neves Alves is an Amsterdam based designer and researcher, with a focus on teaching and lecturing. She develops self-initiated projects in design research, exploring hybrid modes of practice between design, theory and the political.

In her PhD in design (Goldsmiths 2016) she advanced miscommunication as a concept and practice that demonstrates how social and cultural exchanges that produce error or misunderstanding can become provocative sites for imagining new participatory practices and collective formations. She questioned notions of good communication and showed the processual character of a grounded practice for designers as non-neutral mediators, intervening and contributing in communication in a creative way through the drawing of dynamic political scenes.

Current research interests and areas of work includes researching the ecologies of communication in relation to the remains of colonialism in public space, studying the politics of communication, noise, participatory methods, emerging modes of practice, practice-based research, decolonising practices, spectrality studies.

She is currently research tutor and thesis supervisor at the Master in Situated Design at the Master Institute for Visual Culture, theory tutor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts Department and research tutor at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

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Kjell Caminha

Kjell Caminha is an artist working with specific focus on the development of curatorial strategies as means for furthering decolonial dialogue, which is an orientation informing his pedagogical work, artistic research and practice. He holds a MFA from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg (SE) where he runs a course on public art and lectures in the bachelor and master fine art programs. Among other projects, Caminha has curated a series of seminars fostering discussions on hospitality practices, diversity and migration knowledge and politics: ‘Practices and Notions of the Migrant Image’ (May 2015); ‘On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches’ (January 2016); and worked as art educator with focus on building publics and public programming for ‘Wheredoiendandyoubegin – On Secularity’, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2017). He has also co-organised the exhibition ‘Setting the Table’ at Baltic 39 (April 2018) as part of coordination of research project ‘Stretched – Expanding Notions of Artistic Practices through Artist-led Cultures’ (2015-2018) led by artist and curator Jason E. Bowman. He is a member of the collectives Afterworks and Public* Display* of Actions* (P*D*A*).

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Lisa Rosendahl

Lisa Rosendahl is Associate Professor of Exhibition Studies at the Academy of Fine Art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In 2018, she was appointed Curator of the 2019 and 2021 editions of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA). For the last few years her curatorial practice has been engaged in long term projects researching the past and present of industrial Modernity in Scandinavia, resulting in exhibitions such as Extracts from a Future History (Public Art Agency Sweden, 2017) The Society Machine (Malmö Konstmuseum 2016-17) and Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore (Trondheim Kunsthall, 2018). As a freelance, she writes and lectures internationally and has curated exhibitions at Moderna Museet (Stockholm) Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen) and INIVA (London) amongst other places. Previous positions include Curator at Public Art Agency Sweden (Stockholm, 2014-17) Director of Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual art, architecture, design and craft (Stockholm, 2011-13) Director of Baltic Art Center (Visby, 2008-10) and Director of Exhibitions at Lisson Gallery (London, 2003-6).

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