 SPRING 2009
Educational project, collaboration with Konstfack
 Report from the Ongoing Curatorial Project The Brief Elisabet Eurén is doing her curatorial Master project at WIRE write + interpret + research + exhibit, Konstfack 2009 in dialogue with Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. This is a process based self-reflective work where the curator takes the role of the creative co-producer and invites two visual artists Beatrice Ehrström and Katarina Nitsch, and one architect Kristin Heiskel Gausdal, to join her. Beginning in October 2008 with a small scale reading group the members were put together to read and discuss texts concerning collaboration and organisation. The curator is interested in making the breakpoints visible between the world of commerce and the world of arts when it comes to questions concerning forms of organisation in the processes of production and distribution. To exhibit the discovered similarities and differences. Therefore, as a starting point and a catalyst for the creative process, the artists and the architect has been given a brief to make a campaign for teenagers as a target group, simultaneously using the participants in the target group as a focus group, to spread the notion of citizenship of the world. From the subjective curatorial viewpoint the notion of citizenship of the world produces a generous reflective meeting point between the artist as a nomad visiting new places and situations through their work and the teenage spirit eager to get out into the world. Two schools in Stockholm were involved and a small group of 18-19 years old became interested in the assignment to take part in the project as active co-producing delegates from the audience. The teenagers work and communicate with the artists and the architect to develop and continue the process of negotiating and transforming the instructions in the brief into an art production that will be presented at Centrifug, Konsthall C in Hökarängen. An exhibition opening May 29 (May 29 – June 14). A documentation of the project The Brief will be shown at the 2009 Degree Exhibition May 12 – 24 at Konstfack. News coming up along the process will be published at the Index homepage continuously. Elisabet Eurén, Stockholm 2009-04-29 |
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