Degree Show 2020: MAS in Curating

  • Delia Popa
    Art work by Delia Popa

The English-speaking, internationally active Postgraduate Programme in Curating (CAS/MAS) shows the projects of its seven graduates in video presentations, text and images. This year’s diploma show is dedicated to the multi-part project Choreographing the Public, which comprises various exhibitions and event formats and was initiated together with the international curator Sergio Edelsztein.

 

The curatorial project Choreographing the Public is a co-curated and multi-formatted program featuring exhibitions, performances, interventions, and screenings taking place from October 2019 to June 2020 at the non-profit and independent art space, the OnCurating Project Space, as well as at other collaborating venues in Zurich. From the idea of impulse and movement taking place in the exhibition space, Choreographing the Public seeks to reconfigure the roles of the creator and the audience. Receding from the traditional experience of art, the curatorial project sheds light on the virtues of participation in generating new and multi-faceted narratives. By means of metaphorical and invisible arrows, visitors are invited to take experimental routes, navigate, move around, interact and freely engage with the environment, while at the same time becoming the choreographers of the works.

Choreographing the Public Event #1
Chi avrà più filo tesserà
Event with Virginia Zanetti, Filippo Berta, Maria Lai (video projection)
19 October 2019
ZHdK
Curated by: Francesca Ceccherini and Beatrice Fontana
oncurating-space.org/chi-avra-piu-filo-tessera

Choreographing the Public Event #3
The Entropy Garden
VR installation by DEPART (Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf)
21 to 23 November 2019
Curated by Eveline Mathis
oncurating-space.org/the-entropy-gardens

Choreographing the Public Event #6
When emotions become form
lecture and screening by Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat)
Cabaret Voltaire
13 December 2019
Curated by: Anastasia Chaguidouline
oncurating-space.org/when-emotions-become-form

 

Choreographing the Public Event #7
Hilla Toony Navok: Rolling Rooms
17 January to 15 February 2020

Solo exhibition by Hilla Toony Navok
Curated by: Ronny Koren and Maya Bamberger
oncurating-space.org/rolling-rooms

  • Tobias Gutmann
  • Tobias Gutmann
Tobias Gutmann

Games.Fights.Encounters
Exhibition and mediation project on art and activism
7–28 March 2020
oncurating-space.org/games-fights-encounters

With video works by Paloma Ayala, Baltensperger + Siepert, Daniela Brugger, Luke Ching, Chto Delat, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Harun Farocki, Jeff Hong, Marc Lee, Yoshinori Niwa, Dima Nechawi, Mohamad Omran, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, Robert Schlicht + Romana Schmalisch, Jonas Staal.

And with participation of the activist and cultural groups: Architecture for Refugees Schweiz, Autonome Schule Zürich, The Creative Memory of The Syrian Revolution, „le peuple qui manque – a people is missing (Kantuta Quiros, Aliocha Imhoff), Love Lazers, Libreria delle Donne, foodwaste.ch/OGG Bern, Progetto Oreste, Stadtlücken, Video Activism, Warsaw Biennale, Who writes his_tory?, The Media Office of Kafranbel.

Games.fights.encounters

The exhibition assembles the politically engaged practices of artists and practices of activists, whose work is directly concerned with taking up political positions and engaging in interventions, ground work and various forms of activism. The exhibition aims to become a contact zone where different publics are invited to actively negotiate what has to be done, and in what way.

The project will take place at the OnCurating Space and elsewhere in March 2020, and will include an extensive event programme with various encounters, series of talks, lectures and discussions as way of examining these intersectionalities and sharing an expanded public space.