Positioning – A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond
Positioning is an international symposium bringing together curators, artists and cultural practitioners to explore curatorial learning, knowledge production and curatorial practices. Extending across the Nordic-Baltic region and beyond, the event is organised in collaboration with a network of art and cultural organisations. Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki is one of the symposium’s partners in Helsinki.
The symposium is organised by PUBLICS, a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency based in Vallila, Helsinki, with a dedicated library, exhibition space and event space. PUBLICS commissions and curates contemporary art programmes, events and new artistic work.
Positioning
Positioning: A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond is the second in a series of four annual, interconnected symposia organised as part of The Centre for Curatorial Thinking programme. The series spans Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting and Collaborating, exploring the importance of public discourse across Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region and beyond. This second symposium collectively reflects on the relationship between learning, curatorial thinking, exhibitionary practices and discourses of the curatorial.
Since the establishment and expansion of curatorial courses in the early 1990s, there has been extensive discussion around different approaches to curatorial education and knowledge production, as well as the forms of learning that may have a lasting impact on curatorial practice, discourse and histories.
Positioning considers the specific modes of curatorial thinking-as-learning taking place across the ever-expanding contemporary curatorial field and how they are enabled by diverse forms of education.
Positioning brings together past and present approaches, knowledges and critiques within curatorial practices. In doing so, the symposium creates a space for dialogue between local and international contemporary art scenes and their practitioners, generating new opportunities for artists, curators and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Participation
The symposium will take place in the auditorium (1st floor) at Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki on 24 September, from 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Admission is free with advance registration. The event is fully booked, and registration is currently closed.
Organisers and partners
Positioning: A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond is organised by PUBLICS in collaboration with an extensive network of partners. In Helsinki and Espoo, the partners are Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts; in Malmö and Copenhagen, Malmö Konstmuseum, Simian and PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen; and in Gothenburg and Stockholm, HDK-Valand, the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm), CuratorLab at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and IASPIS.
