In May 2009, I was invited to take a look behind the scenes of the Teylers Museum, an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem. I can’t even begin to tell you about this outstanding museum, possibly the oldest one in The Netherlands. Here… Read more
Ever since I’ve seen (parts of) the Educational Complex by Mike Kelly*, I took an interest in this work. It consists of eight tabletop architectural models, each representing every school Mike Kelley attended, as well as the house that he grew up in. I’m in… Read more
e-flux conversations is a new platform [since October 2014] for in-depth discussions of urgent artistic and social ideas. The open forum allows for participation from any user as well as specialized discussion moderated by resident editors. I’m following the conversation that Maria Lind* has instigated last… Read more
Interview – Creativity is defined as the use of imagination or original ideas to create something new. Most people used to associate creativity with the fields of art and literature–where originality is considered to be a sufficient condition for creativity. Lately, there is some sort of myth going around about creativity being… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 6 – Can we break down hierarchies between artist, curator, art space and public? Watching, listening, thinking, responding, analyzing are as important as making and presenting; one is not more democratic or more meaningful than the other. In the… Read more
Worth reading: Amanda Cachia’s essay “Disability, Curating, and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum.” published by On Curating, Issue 24, December 2014. “The “educational turn” has successfully theorized how curators are now more and more embroiled in implementing educational strategies as part… Read more
Interview – Artist Gareth Long is from Toronto, Canada and currently based in London, UK. We met in 2013 in Vienna and worked together on several projects, such as the seminar Appropriate Kidnapping for Kunsthalle Wien. Gareth’s work focuses on processes of transference, translation and… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 5 – Being a learner, a student, a beginner, is a great place to be. Artists are exceptionally good at it. For example, Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, who currently lives and works in Brussels, analyzes her own process and… Read more
Shelved as worth-re-reading: NATURE/EXHIBITION by Ane Hjort Guttu–artist, writer and curator based in Oslo, Norway–that was published in The Phantom of Liberty –Contemporary Art and the Pedagogical Paradox, edited by Tone Hansen and Lars Bang Larsen, published by Sternberg Press. The text analyses the creation process… Read more
C’est toi qui as change – 4 – In the last post was written that according to Jacques Rancière, the artist should be more like the ignorant schoolmaster who “does not teach his pupils his knowledge, but orders them to venture into the forest of… Read more