{"id":1654,"date":"2014-02-24T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/current\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2018-07-24T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:07:32","slug":"elke-krasny-unplanned-history-writing-it-downwriting-it-up-as-a-critical-curatorial-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/archives\/1654","title":{"rendered":"Elke Krasny: Unplanned History \u2013 Writing It Down\/Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

WORLD OF ART
\nSchool for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art
\nSeason 15
\n1st Year (October 2014\u2013June 2015)<\/p>\n

Series of public lectures<\/a><\/p>\n

Elke Krasny: Unplanned History \u2013 Writing It Down\/Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice <\/strong>
\nLecture and workshop<\/p>\n

March 13 & 14, 2014<\/strong>
\nSCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
\nWorkshop application deadline: February 28, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LECTURE<\/strong>
\nThursday, March 13, 2014, at 7 pm<\/strong>
\nSCCA Project space, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
\nThe lecture will be held in English<\/p>\n

In recent spatial practices and engagement in urban transformation, debates have surrounded the putative master planning and the putative un-planning or un-planned. This opposition has been undisputedly at the heart of critical spatial practice and theory.<\/p>\n

The title of this lecture proposes a paradox as its starting point: unplanned history. History eludes planning, it has already happened. Still, the notion of the unplanned, as the lecturer emphasizes, is not the only conduit into history. Quite on the contrary, the writing of history, as feminist and postcolonial scholarship have shown, needs care and planning.<\/p>\n

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The Woodward\u2019s Building collapsing, Vancouver, September 30, 2006, photo credit: Tannoy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nElke Krasny will position a different genealogy of feminist urban curating (largely unwritten) and feminist strategies for writing an urban history that otherwise will have remained untold and invisible. These two histories will be unfold in parallel as part of an ongoing exploration of critical spatial practices in urban curating and of feminist (proto-)curatorial models of conviviality and the writing of unwritten history.<\/p>\n

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The Woodsquat, Campers took to the sidewalk after Vancouver Police shut down the occupation inside, Vancouver, 2002.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Presented examples will reflect these concerns from a historical and transnational perspective. Examples given will range from late-19th<\/sup> century feminism to artistic, curatorial and writing practices by Dolores Hayden, Suzanne Lacy and Lucy Lippard and some of Krasny’s own work as an urban curator.<\/p>\n