CURATING as MAKING: Making shows, making change
Guest lecture, MA/MFA Contemporary Curating, Manchester School of Art 18 June 2020 #MagicCarpet 2017-2019 What did I ‘make’? • • • • • • • •
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30 seminars/exhs/perfs/workshops across 18 months Tapestry art X 1 Booklet X 1, Drawings X 140 Photographed performances X 5 Films X 13, Badges X 600 (13 designs) Performance-lectures X 8? Articles X 15? Durational performance: 18 months
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RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2014-2020 • • • •
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2018: ‘An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016’. In Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. February, 1–17. Routledge Taylor and Francis. ISSN 1743-0437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1430488 Presented work of 65 researchers, artists & public: Cardiff National Indoor Stadium, Paris School of Culture & Arts in France. Multi- and interdisciplinary: theatre, paleo-anthropology, biomechanics. Participants: from 40 institutions (eg universities of Oxford & Harvard, and public/3rd sector like Leeds Art Gallery and FreeToRun/Afghanistan). Co-curators: Author & Reader in English and Environmental Humanities Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid (2016), UCL Prof of Geography Alan Latham (2014). Media: ‘Positive atmosphere’ in Guardian, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking (2017, 300,000 listeners).
Etymology of ‘curate’: caring, cure. Working with materials, people, situations. Juxtapositions. Productive antagonisms.
Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA SFHEA T: @kaisyngtan @wesatonamat