Es Baluard launches Curators Summer School, a new program of specialized training workshops for art curators born and scope to the Balearic Islands and extended to other non-residents and foreign participants.
This project aims to establish and lead a new generation of curators, aiming the professionalization of the sector of independent curators and museum conservators.
This intensive course will take place from September 2 through 7 in the morning and evening for 5 days of theoretical and practical classes.
The Curators Summer School is the second training program for professionals launched by Es Baluard within the last months. The other, named Les Clíniques d’Es Baluard (The Es Baluard’s Clinics), is aimed at artists and aims to promote professionalism in the arts from the museum institution. The deadline to register ends June 30.
Workshop contents:
In general, the art exhibition is a temporary space in which art objects and the audience come into contact. The samples have different characteristics and its nature changes depending on where they occur. For this reason, museums, art centres, alternative spaces and commercial galleries, each of them are distinguished by having different objectives, responsibilities and action framework. The curator is responsible for configuring these devices "displays" and "exhibition", the contact between works of art institutions, artists and audience.
Originally, the word curator comes from the Latin curare, meaning "take account", "be the guardian". How to define the role of the curator in this new decade of the century? What are the activities made by a curator? Certainly, during the twentieth century the figure of the curator has been transformed and the definition of the exhibitory fact has progressively expanded. Currently, the curator has different and possible ways of action. The curator organizes exhibitions, critics, manages, edits, writes, researches, and conducts fundraising. It is essential to understand the work of the curator as a practical and flexible context-sensitive where it occurs and to consider it as a profession with the challenge of being in constant negotiation with the various elements that constitute it. This first year of the Curators Summer School aims to come closer to different aspects of curatorial practice and to the history of "doing exhibitions".
This intensive course will aim to analyze and implement experimental production of an exhibition organized by each student. Each student will be asked, before the start of the workshop, to select an exhibition of interest and to write a critique of 500 words maximum. During the first three days led by Manuela Moscoso, the students will infiltrate in different aspects of curating and there will be a collective reading per day, dedicating time to work and adjust each proposal. The last day, each student will submit a final draft limited to 30 minutes. That is, everyone will work the 30 minutes not only as a temporary space but also physical. Limiting conditions of this exercise aims, on one hand, to promote the creativity of each student, and on the other to enhance the diversity of the other types of projects that can be generated in an identical condition for all.
Manuela Moscoso is an independent curator and reseracher based in Brazil. She is the curent the Director of Capacete (Brazil) and since 2010, together with curator Sarah Demesue, founded the curatorial office Rivet (New York) focused on object-oriented thought and its overlaps with art.
Moscoso has recently been appointed as Associate Curator of the curatorial team of the next Cuenca Bienal XII 2014, Ecuador. Moscoso's curatorial practice focuses on generating spaces for research, production, and display. Whether in co-running an artist- space founding an online platform, creating a curatorial residency program, or organizing group shows, she sees collaboration as integral to her practice. She has recently curated, Quarter System (Universidad Navarra, Spain) Queens Biennal (Queens Museum, New York), “Even in the Quietest Moments” (Vogt Gallery, New York) or “The Action of Things” (CCS Bard Gallery, Annadale-on-Hudson),Antes Que Todo (CA2M, Madrid).
Her research in Rivet has materialized in exhibitions and publications about generics and deployment, and resonance and repetition Artium (Vitoria, Spain, Feb 2012), ICI (New York, Winter 2012), Galerie Tatjana Pieters (Ghent, Belgium, June 2012), 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon, Sept 2012), Goethe Institut (New York, Oct 2012), The Elizabeth Foundationfor the Arts (New York, Nov 2012), Vera List Center for Art and Politics (New York, Dec 2012). Between 2002-2008, and together with Patricia Esquivias she co-founded and directed los29enchufes, a curatorial project that started as an artist-run space in 2001 and now operates as a sporadic curatorial collaboration.
She also co-runs JULIO (www.thisisjulio.com), an online curatorial project that produces screenings (2008, Alba Cinema) as well as exhibitions (2010, Centro Cultural de São Paulo). In 2008, Manuela produced and directed the first curatorial residency in Madrid in collaboration with S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium).
Moscoso holds a MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a (BA) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design.