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On 20 June District opens the exhibition Breaking the News. The dynamics of commentary in the curatorial as part of the project series Curatorial Practices. Fields and Techniques. The project takes place in the frame of the masters programme Cultures of the Curatorial of HGB Leipzig and will be curated by Michaela Richter together with Christina Kral.
On the occasion of the exhibition the workshop HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM REAL? takes place on 21 June with a concept by Michaela Richter and Fiona Geuß.
Exhibition: 21 June - 4 July 2015
Opening: 20 June 2015, 7pm
Workshop: HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM REAL?
Concept by Fiona Geuß and Michaela Richter
21 June 2015, 12-6pm
The workshop will take place in English
Exhibition: Breaking News. The dynamics of commentary in the curatorial Commentary clarifies, validates, and argues from a subjective position. As an instrument of opinion-making it serves to question existing discourses on truth. Breaking the News explores curatorial practices that present swift, concrete statements on pressing current political issues and discourses – an approach that can be characterized by the term “commentary” as it is journalistically defined.
Through an interdisciplinary dialogue, curator Michaela Richter and artist Christina Kral have assembled different manifestations of commentary into an exhibition setting—research and questions that enable a convergence of its individual methods and a critical engagement with their possible strengths and necessary shortfalls.
Curatorial Practices: Fields and Techniques is a project series on current developments, problems and methods of the curatorial.
Workshop: HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM REAL?
On the occasion of the exhibition Breaking the News, the workshop deals with curatorial and artistic formats that create space for the discussion of social and political topics. Two questions will be extensively developed under the auspices of HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM REAL? 1. From which forms of participation do commentary formats originate and what kind of function therein does the observer take on—do they correspond or consume? 2. How are these approaches reflected not only in individual curatorial and artistic practices, but also in the every day labor of cultural works in institutional contexts?
During this one-day workshop we will explore the discussion of current political themes as elements of a personal practice and to what extent institutional infrastructures (deadlines, budgets, hierarchal interests, or self-organization) could accelerate, delay, or influence commentary on a particular situation.