World of Art | School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing | Year 16\nSeries of public lectures<\/p>\n
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 6 pm<\/strong>\nProject Room, SCCA-Ljubljana, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana<\/p>\n\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We cordially invite you to attend the public lecture <em>Curating? Corating! <\/em>by Swiss curator and author <strong>Daniel Morgenthaler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4063\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Delivery for Mr. Assange, Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich, 2014. Replica of Julian Assange\u02bcs office at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: FBM Studio.\" width=\"719\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Delivery for Mr. Assange, Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich, 2014.<br \/>Replica of Julian Assange\u02bcs office at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: FBM Studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a bit like picking up weapons in the digital architecture of an ego shooter game: Ancient Greek and Roman orators memorized their speeches by placing portions of content in different rooms of an imagined or remembered architectural structure. While giving their speeches, they would make their way through this brain architecture, gathering up contents along the way, aiming for the exit \u2013 i.e. the finale of their speech. As curators, we are \u2013 usually \u2013 not working in imagined architectures, if, then maybe in digital ones. But perhaps there are certain parallels between organizing speeches using the \u201cmethod of loci\u201d and organizing exhibitions in the chain of rooms that constitute an art space. And maybe exhibition making is also a kind of mnemotechnology: placing content in rooms, along the logic or rhetoric of a certain topic.<\/p>\n<p>What can curators learn from orators, ancient or contemporary? Are exhibitions of contemporary art maybe less a tool of memory \u2013 that\u2019s more the thing of historical museums \u2013 but of mnemory, with an n? Places of thinking art, of rethinking art, of memorizing tendencies? Literary theory is widely \u2013 and sometimes too generally \u2013 applied to arts. Could the principles of rhetoric be applied to curating, to more effect? These and other questions will be discussed in the context of future and past exhibitions at Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10296\" title=\"Daniel Morgenthaler. Foto: Raisa Durandi.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Daniel-Morgenthaler.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Morgenthaler. Foto: Raisa Durandi.\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Daniel Morgenthaler <\/strong>(1978) has studied English, German and Philosophy in Zurich and Sheffield. Since 2011 he works as a curator at Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich. Exhibitions include <em>Talk to the Hand<\/em>, 2013, <em>!Mediengruppe Bitnik \u2013 Delivery for Mr. Assange\/Christian Waldvogel \u2013 unknown<\/em>, 2014, <em>Asia Andrzejka Naveen \u2013 Mas cerca\/De La Fuente Oscar De Franco \u2013 Bluecore<\/em>, 2015. As a freelance author, he contributes to exhibition catalogues, magazines and newspapers like <em>Kunstbulletin<\/em>, <em>Z\u00fcritipp <\/em>and <em>Apartamento<\/em>. He regularly teaches at the MAS Curating and the MFA at the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with critic and curator Aoife Rosenmeyer and supported by Pro Helvetia, he established <em>Crritic!<\/em> a workshop programme concerned with critical writing in Switzerland, in 2014.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The lecture is organized by World of Art\/SCCA\u2013Ljubljana and supported by City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture and\u00a0Embassy\u00a0of\u00a0Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"Svet umetnosti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SU-logo-100.png\" width=\"87\" height=\"70\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10306\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mol-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"70\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Embassy\u00a0of\u00a0Switzerland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/veleposlanistvo-svice-logo.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Curating? 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We cordially invite you to attend the public lecture <em>Curating? Corating! <\/em>by Swiss curator and author <strong>Daniel Morgenthaler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4063\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Delivery for Mr. Assange, Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich, 2014. Replica of Julian Assange\u02bcs office at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: FBM Studio.\" width=\"719\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mediengruppe-Bitnik_Delivery-for-Mr.Assange-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Delivery for Mr. Assange, Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich, 2014.<br \/>Replica of Julian Assange\u02bcs office at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: FBM Studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a bit like picking up weapons in the digital architecture of an ego shooter game: Ancient Greek and Roman orators memorized their speeches by placing portions of content in different rooms of an imagined or remembered architectural structure. While giving their speeches, they would make their way through this brain architecture, gathering up contents along the way, aiming for the exit \u2013 i.e. the finale of their speech. As curators, we are \u2013 usually \u2013 not working in imagined architectures, if, then maybe in digital ones. But perhaps there are certain parallels between organizing speeches using the \u201cmethod of loci\u201d and organizing exhibitions in the chain of rooms that constitute an art space. And maybe exhibition making is also a kind of mnemotechnology: placing content in rooms, along the logic or rhetoric of a certain topic.<\/p>\n<p>What can curators learn from orators, ancient or contemporary? Are exhibitions of contemporary art maybe less a tool of memory \u2013 that\u2019s more the thing of historical museums \u2013 but of mnemory, with an n? Places of thinking art, of rethinking art, of memorizing tendencies? Literary theory is widely \u2013 and sometimes too generally \u2013 applied to arts. Could the principles of rhetoric be applied to curating, to more effect? These and other questions will be discussed in the context of future and past exhibitions at Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10296\" title=\"Daniel Morgenthaler. Foto: Raisa Durandi.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Daniel-Morgenthaler.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Morgenthaler. Foto: Raisa Durandi.\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Daniel Morgenthaler <\/strong>(1978) has studied English, German and Philosophy in Zurich and Sheffield. Since 2011 he works as a curator at Helmhaus Z\u00fcrich. Exhibitions include <em>Talk to the Hand<\/em>, 2013, <em>!Mediengruppe Bitnik \u2013 Delivery for Mr. Assange\/Christian Waldvogel \u2013 unknown<\/em>, 2014, <em>Asia Andrzejka Naveen \u2013 Mas cerca\/De La Fuente Oscar De Franco \u2013 Bluecore<\/em>, 2015. As a freelance author, he contributes to exhibition catalogues, magazines and newspapers like <em>Kunstbulletin<\/em>, <em>Z\u00fcritipp <\/em>and <em>Apartamento<\/em>. He regularly teaches at the MAS Curating and the MFA at the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with critic and curator Aoife Rosenmeyer and supported by Pro Helvetia, he established <em>Crritic!<\/em> a workshop programme concerned with critical writing in Switzerland, in 2014.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The lecture is organized by World of Art\/SCCA\u2013Ljubljana and supported by City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture and\u00a0Embassy\u00a0of\u00a0Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"Svet umetnosti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SU-logo-100.png\" width=\"87\" height=\"70\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10306\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mol-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"70\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Embassy\u00a0of\u00a0Switzerland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/veleposlanistvo-svice-logo.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Curating? 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