Social Sculpture re-visited
<p>We share our interest in Social Practices in the arts. Therefore I initiated a curatorial project for the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK, Zürich around the topic of Social Sculptures. The project took place in four different steps over a period of time of one and a half years, the curatorial concept was changed and further developed and produced by the artists, students/ participants and lecturers. The first step was to initiate an archive on artistic practice which an interest in communities, which was shown twice, once at the White Space, Zürich and secondly at Kunstmuseum Thun. The archive was curated by Karin Frei Bernasconi, Siri Peyer and myself, with the cooperation of the students of the programme. From this convolute I invited three artists to work with the students for projects related to the notion of Social Sculpture: Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen and Pawlo Kerestey), San Keller and Jeanne van Heeswijk. Each of them developed the projects in workshops with the students of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating over a period of about one year…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall
Editors: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall
Contributors: Marina Belobrovaja, Søren Berner, Beta Local, Ursula Biemann, Michael Birchall, Dario Bischofberger, Mirko Bischofberger, Dog men, Fabrizio Boni, Giorgio de Finis, Space Metropoliz, Eyal Danon, Altes Finanzamt, Grandhotel Cosmopolis Augsburg, San Keller, Oliver Ressler, Planting Rice, Dorothee Richter, Martin Schick, Agustina Strüngmann, Public Works
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