Becoming Animal
Image: Sharon Norwood
Sharon Norwood - Hair Stories & Sheena Rose - Calculating Culture.
presented a live-streamed presentation and performance.
A screening of film works by Hew Locke, Harold Offeh, Samson Kambalu and Sophie Woolley curated by Julia Waugh.
“Is The Curator An Agent Or Double Agent Of Cultural Identity”
The ICF at The ACC
Gwangju
1st-2nd September 2016
www.internationalcuratorsforum.org
This film event was a live-streamed a film presentation by Sharon Norwood and Sheena Rose for ICF (International Curators Forum) conference hosted by Asian Culture Center Gwangju 2016: "Is The Curator An Agent Or Double Agent Of Cultural Identity?
In the digital cartography we are most like the nomadic subjects of the Altermodern, a portmanteau word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, in an attempt at contextualizing art made in today’s global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.
presented a live-streamed presentation and performance.
A screening of film works by Hew Locke, Harold Offeh, Samson Kambalu and Sophie Woolley curated by Julia Waugh.
“Is The Curator An Agent Or Double Agent Of Cultural Identity”
The ICF at The ACC
Gwangju
1st-2nd September 2016
www.internationalcuratorsforum.org
This film event was a live-streamed a film presentation by Sharon Norwood and Sheena Rose for ICF (International Curators Forum) conference hosted by Asian Culture Center Gwangju 2016: "Is The Curator An Agent Or Double Agent Of Cultural Identity?
In the digital cartography we are most like the nomadic subjects of the Altermodern, a portmanteau word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, in an attempt at contextualizing art made in today’s global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.
Image: Sheena Rose
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Image: Samson Kambalu
Image: Sophie Woolley
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Operating in terrain which might also be defined as a chameleon where filters can draw identities together under a surface mantel of subjectivity, we begin to define the concept of anthropocene and now ask what animal tropes and signifiers are healthy and which are regressive?
We can now ask how do artists respond to being representatives of cultures and how do they escape stereotypes?
Under the title of #becominganimal Julia Waugh has curated a series of interruptions that explore the theme of becoming animal as a metaphorical topology of the border and will introduce the audience to the works of Sheena Rose, Sharon Norwood, Kambalu, Sophie Woolley and Hew Locke also stage in Gwangju and Seoul including a special studio session with Yeesookyung and The ICF tour members.
This event was part of a two day symposia at The ACC in Gwangju “Is The Curator An Agent Or Double Agent Of Cultural Identity?”
SPEAKERS:
Sheikha Hoor Bint Sultan Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation), David A Bailey MBE (Director of The ICF)Jeonhwan Cho (Research Fellow of Asia Culture Center), Graeme Mortimer Evelyn (Artist; Independent Curator), Melanie Keen (Director, Iniva), Namsoo Kim (Art Critic; Former Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center), Giuseppe Moscatello (Director, Maraya Art Centre), Yongsung Paik (Philosopher; Artistic director of 2016 AASN project), Kyong Park (Professor, UCSD; Director of ‘Imagining New Eurasia‘), Sara Raza (Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Middle East & North Africa for the New York Museum), Judith Greer (International Programmes Director, Sharjah Art Foundation), JW Stella (Director of JAC; International Associate Curator of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art), Jessica Taylor (Independent Curator), Mark Waugh (Programme Director, ICF; Head of Research and Innovation, DACS), Jian Jun Xi (Artist; Director, UKCAA).
