how to curate
from within a
crisis? 

Multiplicity

How does the medium change/adapt in crises?

local crises

global crises

strategies for crises

Curating in the Age of Crises

Sammy Baloji (visual artist and co-founder of the Lubumbashi Biennale) and Lucrezia Cippitelli (scholar, curator), Enrique Rivera (Director, Biennial of Media Arts of Santiago), Christine Tohme (Founding Director, Ashkal Alwan), Tirdad Zolghadr (Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Artistic Director, Sommerakademie Paul Klee)
Moderator: Ute Meta Bauer (Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU)

Art practitioners from major global cities, including Santiago, Lubumbashi, Ramallah and Beirut, will reflect on their experiences in curating engaging biennials. They will explore current political, environmental, economic and social crises around the world and debate what it means to produce art in such challenging times. Everywhere one looks these days, crises with global implications, one after the other, are becoming the norm. What resources can biennials bring to bear in these complex times? What durational projects can address the different forms of crisis?

how can we bring in our own voices/experiences to address this multiplicity?

what crisis?

different temporalities

different localities

are there more pressing crises than the others?

whose crisis?

how not to represent the crisis but work through the conditions that the crisis creates or culminates in?

can one address multiple crisis without diminishing their specificity?

who gets to talk about a crisis? do you have to be a part/agent of that crisis?