Interesting Presentation!

I wish I could go to this! It would be interesting to see how I could tie this in to the local art scene here...and to learn how other countries are "pushing the envelope" with regards to innovative curatorial practices!

MAKING IT HAPPEN: Dora Hegyi
Towards an art scene in "sheer togetherness"
When: Monday May 12, 1:00–3:00 pm
Where: Center for Curatorial Studies, Seminar Room I How can you as a curator share knowledge if the backgrounds and used vocabularies of artists and other cultural producers are different? How can you introduce practices that are not familiar? For Dora Hegyi, a curator based in Budapest, curating does not only mean exhibition making, but also mediating and catalyzing within the art field. She will speak about her activities in Hungary, a country new to democracy, art institutions such as public museums, and galleries, which often represent old, non-flexible structures and thinking. This means that on the one hand, you are free to do whatever you wish, since critical approach is not established as the common language for understanding art. You can experiment with or discover different, less acknowledged formats as you could not have before. On the other hand, the existing structures are not flexible at all, but frozen without any openness and understanding for new ways of thinking. In 2006, she started The Free School for Art Theory and Practice, whose program includes film screenings, radio programs, discussions, lectures, grants, awards, etc. The main objective is to shape the professional consciousness of the local art scene and to create an approach to contemporary visual art, as a segment of culture that creates knowledge and information access and with this contributes to social responsibility.MAKING IT HAPPEN is a series of public lectures addressing new terrains being explored in contemporary curating. Lectures take place every week at the Center for Curatorial Studies. Reservation recommended. Please call 845.758.7598 oe e-mail ccs@bard.edu. --
Center for Curatorial Studies
Hessel Museum of Art
Bard College
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