Launch
26.10.21

On the Question of Exhibition: Part 3 joint launch event with Afterall

Online

Participants

Pablo LafuenteDavid MorrisGrace SambohLucy SteedsMick Wilson

The 3rd and final part of On the Question of Exhibition will be launched together with  Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public published by Afterall Exhibition Histories.

26 OCTOBER 2021 (online: zoom/ youtube live stream)

17.00–18.00 CET 

PARSE is pleased to announce an online event to jointly celebrate the launch of Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public the latest title in the Afterall Books: Exhibition Histories series, and Part 3 of the PARSE Journal series On the Question of Exhibition.

An introduction to the book and the journal issue will be followed by a short discussion with some contributors and editors from each: Pablo Lafuente, David Morris & Grace Samboh, Lucy Steeds and Mick Wilson. This event is an occasion to reflect on the expanded field of exhibition studies. We are also delighted to mark the new partnership between Afterall Books: Exhibition Histories and PARSE.

All welcome!

To join event on zoom use this link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/62473694718

The event will also be live streamed through PARSE’s YouTube channel

Contributors

Pablo Lafuente

Pablo Lafuente works as a writer, editor and curator, with a focus on collaborative and educational practices. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he is currently the Artistic Diretor of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, together with Keyna Eleison. He was co-curator of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo (2014), the ‘Zarigüeya/Alabado Contemporáneo” project (Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado, Quito, 2015-ongoing), and the exhibitions ‘Dja Guata Porã: Rio de Janeiro indígena (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-18) and ‘A Singular Form’ (Secession, Vienna, 2014). He was an editor for Afterall and Afterall Books, and is currently a Series Editor for the Exhibition Histories series.

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David Morris

David Morris is a research fellow and editor at Afterall, working particularly on the Exhibition Histories series. His work explores different approaches to artistic research, education and exhibitions, with a particular focus on experimental and collective practices. He is co-editor, with Sylvère Lotringer, of Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book(Semiotext(e)/The MIT Press, 2014); with David Teh, of Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98 (Afterall Books, 2018); among other publications. With Helena Vilalta he leads a research masters’ programme in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

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Grace Samboh

Grace Samboh questions (a little bit) too many things all at the same time and believes that every person needs at least three copies of themselves. Her recent curatorial works are: Group show “FOMO/JOMO: Hacking modernism’s duality” at RUBANAH Underground Hub in conjunction with archive show “From, by and for whom? Visualization of the national history” at Gudskul (Jakarta, 2019); A duo show of Julia Sarisetiati and Vicky Do co-curated with Bill Nguyen “We’re in this together” in the Factory Contemporary Art Center (Ho Chi Minh City, 2018); A group show at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore, “Carte Blanche: Anxiety” (Singapore, 2017); A travelling museum that re-started a conversation on Indonesia’s recent democracy “Museum Tanpa Tanda Jasa (The Unsung Museum)” (2016-2018); A multiple way of exchange(s) “Banyak-banyak” (Many-many) within a platform of Gertrude Contemporary Art Space (Melbourne, 2014-2015) called The Independence Project; A year of artistic research “Tahun Tanah 2015” (The Earth Year) with Jatiwangi art Factory (Majalengka, West Java). With Hyphen, her partners in curiosity, she is unraveling data, fact and stories about Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru Indonesia (Indonesia New Art Movement, 1975-1989); compiling behind the scene stories of the national museum dioramas made under the supervision of the eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016); and connecting intertextualities amongst various forms of Danarto’s (1940-2018) lifetime works.
www.hyphen.web.id www.rubanah.com www.equatorsymposium.org www.sambohgrace.wordpress.com

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Lucy Steeds

Lucy Steeds works as a writer, editor and teacher. Based at University of the Arts London (UAL) as a reader in Art Theory and Exhibition Histories, she is senior research fellow and series editor for Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series of books. Together with Bo Choy, Charles Esche and David Morris, she co-edited the most recent volume in the series, Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public. With other collaborators she has co-edited Curating After the Global (2019), How Institutions Think (2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (2016); and is responsible for Exhibition in the Documents of Contemporary Art series (2014). Lucy convenes the Research Network at UAL, offering a programme of support for the University’s doctoral students.

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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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