West Cork Arts Centre

The archive is currently in ireland, where it is being presented at the West Cork Arts Centre between the 16th March and the 19th April 2008.

Mick Wilson has been invited to reinterpret the archive there and has set up a special website documenting his progress - www.gradcam.ie/cdz -

Talking Curators

Friday 4 April from 2.00 – 5.00pm

A seminar, co-organised by West Cork Arts Centre and the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media will use the opportunity provided
by the presentation of the curating degree zero archive in Ireland to explore the current state of curatorial practice and the progress of the debate on curating over the last decade. This is also an opportunity to question the future possibilities of curatorial discourse after the explosion of curatorial debates in the 1990s and 2000s.

History

Following in the footsteps of the first Curating Degree Zero symposium (Bremen, 1998), the touring archive has provided the backdrop for a number of events since 2003.

A mini-symposium took place on the archive’s visit to Bremen in August 2003, with presentations by Stella Rollig, Helmut Draxler, Frederikke Hansen, and a discussion moderated by Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter.

Lectures, teach-ins and interventions into the archive, accompanied the exhibition at the Centre D’Art Contemporain in Geneva, as part of a longer collaboration with the students of the postgraduate program CCC (critical curatorial cybermedia) at L’Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the city.

During its tour through Switzerland and Austria, the archive became the focus of various online discussions, on new-media art and ‘criticality’, hosted primarily by the CRUMB (Sunderland) and Discordia (Vienna) lists.

Lise Nellemann's hosting and reinterpretation of the archive at Sparwasser HQ in Berlin (Autumn 2005) featured a number of talks and discussions, based on her invitation to various artists and curators to select and present 'favourites' from the archive. Amongst those invited to speak were Beatrice von Bismarck, Astrid Mania, Michael Baers, Ulrike Solbrig, Christoph Lang & Stephan Meylan and Kent Hansen.

In 2005 the archive staged several discussion events as part of the England Tour:

“Curating and the Public Sphere”
International Project Space, University of Central England, Bournville, Birmingham.
13th April 2005, 11am – 5pm
Speakers: Simon Sheikh, Gavin Wade, Mark Hutchinson and Kathrin Böhm.

“Curating can be learned, but can it be taught?”
Project Room at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
19th May 2005, 11 am – 5pm
Speakers: Liliane Schneiter, Tim Brennan, Stevan Vukovic and Barnaby Drabble.

"Curating is part of my practice"
Serpentine Gallery, The Sackler Centre of Arts Education.
26th of May 2005, 11am - 5pm
Speakers: Henrik Schrat, Paul O’Neill, Lise Nelleman and Artlab, Jeanine Richards + Charlotte Cullinan.

In 2006 and 2007 the archive hosted assorted events including teach-ins at the Nuova Accademia in Milan, lectures and discussions at Insa Art Space in Seoul and talks and a week long workshop as part of the archive's presence at Point Éphémère in Paris. The archive also visited Bergen, Norway, where the hosts Rakett organised a variety of cook-ins, talks and presentations.