Circuits of Experiences, Research and Knowledges

Arrangør: Anne Szefer Karlsen med Norsk Kuratorforening og OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Dato: Torsdag 26. juni
Tid: 20:00
Billetter: Gratis! Sign up here: https://www.coerk.com/book
Rom: Fabrikkhallen (2. etasje)

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‘Circuits of Experiences, Research and Knowledges’ is a four day conference that
will deal with the question: how to gather when structures to gather dissappear?

Circuits of Experiences, Research and Knowledges’ will be populated by curators, artists, art mediators and educators.

The conference is expected to gather around 150 professionals from different places in the world focusing on contemporary art in Bergen/Birgon*.

Prompted by increasing polarisation in many parts of the world, and a consistent dismantling or co-opting of institutions, the main topic of the conference is: how to gather when structures to gather disappear?

The conference will focus on how curatorial and educational practices can act as productive answers to the question above, since those that practice the curatorial and educational are public intellectuals that create spaces for cultural activity and gatherings that are not predetermined or dictated by protocols.

It is a conference that simultaneously will mark the ten-year anniversary of the MA Curatorial Practice at the University of Bergen, and the end of this educational programme. The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design proposed to the University board to end this international education for curators on 6 September 2024, which it did on 28 November 2024, incidentally also closing the only education for curators in Norway.

This local and international backdrop creates an urgency to gather, to solidify international networks and to sow the seeds of new connections to grow in the future.

*Birgon is the so far officially unrecognised Sámi name for Bergen. In September 2023, Bergen City Council representative and deputy mayor Eira Martinsen Garrido (Socialist Left Party) submitted a proposal to adopt an official Sámi name for Bergen which was turned down by the City Council. The City Council also turned down the proposal to adopt an official Kven and Romani place name for the city.

See full programme here: https://www.coerk.com/