In Focus: A Curatorial Intensive with Maria Lind

Join curator Maria Lind for a two-day workshop for early career curators, arts workers, and cultural practitioners. Art as a form of understanding, which relies on a multiplicity of relationships, will be at the core of the workshop. At a time when agility and resource ingenuity are ever more important, we will discuss and test how more of the potential which lies in each art work can be activated. At the same time we will work with "less is more" in the sense of spending more time on fewer art projects, and will delve into the making and meaning of the mediation of art.

In the workshop each participant will be invited to select an existing art work made by an artist who is still alive and propose a context locally in which it will be shown. A text of seven hundred words will be written about the art work in question. The contextualisation should take into consideration individuals and/or groups with whom the participant would like to engage in some kind of organised exchange with the art work as a starting point, as well as the meaning generated by the encounter between the work and the specific location. The workshop group will make collective visits to the locations.

This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa, in collaboration with PUKU, led by Te Tuhi’s curatorial intern Liam Jacobson at Parnell Project Space, and in association with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

To apply write an expression of interest which includes:

• Introduce your practice. Detail any guiding principles, underlying questions, research interests, curatorial approaches or methodologies that drive your work (250 words max).
• State your motivation: why you want to join this intensive and what you hope to get out of it (250 words max).
• Suggest an artwork you would like to discuss (250 words max).
• Propose one specific question you would like to pose to Maria Lind.
• Confirmation that you can attend both days in full.
• Supply a curriculum vitae and/or portfolio (optional).

This opportunity is open to people across Aotearoa but please note we are unable to cover any travel costs. Attendance on both days is essential.
Booking is essential as space is limited to 15 participants.
Please contact matthew@artspace.org.nz to express your interest by Sunday 15 February.

WHAT TO EXPECT
This event is free.
Space is limited to 15 participants
This session requires an expression of interest, there are no drop ins
This event will be held at PUKU located at Parnell Project Space, at the Parnell Train Station.
This location is accessible with assistance.
Light refreshments will be provided but please bring lunch.

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