
As attendee to the
CIMAM's Annual Conference this year, I consider that those lectures dedicated
specifically to present a particular space, such as the ones which represented
cultural poles like Africa, Latin America, or those that showed a case of study
related to the local context of Istanbul, were the most fruitful in establishing
connections among the different contexts that nowadays share certain searches
in the field of production, reflection and management.
I think about the
importance of programs like this, which bring about experiences that stage
problems engendered in institutions and art spaces; experiences traversed by
exchange and debate. I also value the approximation to other expressions of
contemporary art that promoted many of these conferences. Expressions that,
from peripheral zones, reveal speeches that display other tactics, with which
the risk is really assumed in economic and ideological terms.
For an emerging
curator, the approach to these other scenes is essential to think about the
development of future projects anchored in a critical and constructive
perspective.
In this sense, I
believe this has been a stimulating experience to review the own proposals,
expand production platforms from the museum where I act, and associate local
paradigms (from my own workspace) with other schemes that practice different
cultural centers of the world.
Moreover, I think this kind of projects promotes
more spaces for communication and discussion, with the ability to adjust the
own habits, generating networks of dialogue and interchange in the context of
what we could call a culture of
management. A fair and accurate model for the complex current cultural
scenario, intended to work with collective relations between subject and utopia.
A model manipulated according to artistic actions thought and directed.
N. R., November 2012
Personal report as CIMAM Travel Grant beneficiary to attend CIMAM's 2012 Annual Conference Museums Beyond the Crises, that held in Istanbul from November 12 to 14, 2012. This grant was funded by The Fundación Cisneros / Colección Patricia Phels de Cisneros. The site web of CIMAM: www.cimam.org.
View the CIMAM 2012 Annual Conference complete report: click here.
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