Anders Kreuger

FULLY BOOKED

Art is not only about communication, but it requires us to articulate ourselves. It challenges us to use language actively and with precision. Curating is intimately connected to this challenge, but it also requires us to think in images and allow images to speak.

This workshop is for those who define themselves as curators, as artists, or both, or neither. It focuses on understanding images, through looking, reading, writing and discussing – in English, the language we share. There will be group seminars and individual tutorials.

The course begins with a reading seminar, organised jointly with artists Olga Chernysheva and Anna Jermolaewa. Participants of both courses are encouraged to present their practices to each other and to collaborate. Together we will study texts by Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Sergey Eisenstein, Willem Flusser and others – texts that inspire us to think about images, how they function and what they mean.

Participants will then work on individual projects, which may include both images – selecting, making, describing, analysing them – and text. These will be developed – in dialogue with the instructors and in discussions between participants – into a concluding presentation that may or may not take the form of an exhibition.

The overall aim is to critically explore the boundaries between thinking alone (which artists often like to do) and thinking together (which curators must always do), and also to bridge the gap between “making” and “using” images.