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Open Curating Studio
Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse
Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK
A “democracy to come” is a promising horizon
for any programme. To explain the concept,
I would like to lay out different trajectories: on
the one hand a short description of the formats
I had in mind, and on the other hand a reflec-
tion on pedagogical elements as understood
from the perspective of the theory on ideol-
ogical state apparatuses developed by Louis
Althusser, which in my understanding could be
re-interpreted in a differentiated way with
Lacanian concepts of the screen/tableau. Both
of these trajectories are intrinsically intertwined
with a specific attitude in actual encounters.
This attitude can be seen in the light of
Derrida’s demand for a “university without
conditions” …
Ed. Dorothee Richter
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Open Curating Studio
Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse
from January 2014 to March 2015
Ed. Dorothee Richter
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Ed. Dorothee Richter
Open Curating Studio
Gasthaus zum Bären /
Museum Bärengasse
January 2014–March 2015
Events, Discussions, Screenings,
Performances, Talks, Meetings
directed by Dorothee Richter
assistant curator: Mirjam Bayerdörfer
and the Postgraduate Programme
in Curating (www.curating.org)
and the Webjournal
www.on-curating.org
Special thanks to
All artists and speakers
Stadt Kultur Zürich, Peter Haerle und Barbara Basting
Stadtentwicklung Zürich, Anna Schindler
Urs Egg /UNDEND Architektur
Freitag bags
Institute for Cultural Studies ZHdK, Sigrid Schade
Research Platform for Curatorial and Cross Disciplinary Cultural Studies, Practice Based Doctoral Programme,
University of Reading, Department of Art, Susanne Clausen, Alun Rowland
Connecting Spaces, Patrick Müller and Dominique Lämmli
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), San Keller
Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Beat Wyss, Sebastian Baden
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Elke Krasny
Imprint
Open Curating Studio
Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse
Publisher & Editor
Dorothee Richter
Proofreading
Stephanie Carwin

Graphic Design
Ronald Kolb, Biotop 3000
Graphical Assistance
Jurek Baumann
A collaboration of
Postgraduate Programme in Curating (www.curating.org)
Centre for Further Education
Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, Department of Cultural Analysis
Zurich University of the Arts
Webjournal OnCurating.org
Connecting Spaces Hong Kong Zürich
Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur
www.curating.org
ISBN: 978-1517311032
Contents
TEXTS PROGRAMME
11 34
Barbara Basting 10 January 2014, 7pmt
Vorwort (German) – Bärenstarke Bärengasse FILM COMPILATION
Eichelmann, Faiers & Rust:
13 “Do you really want it so much? …’More!”
Barbara Basting
Foreword – Bärengasse – Strong as a Bear 36
10 January 2014, 7pm
15 FILM
Sigrid Schade Oliver Ressler: Take the Square
Interim Use or Experimental Fields
of Giving to See 37
10 January 2014, 7pm
17 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Roberto Nigro Raphael Gygax: Drama, Dance, Art
Alienation, the Social Individual, and Communism.
Marx in the 21st Century 38
17 January 2014, 7pm
25 TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Dorothee Richter Silvia Simoncelli: How is the city an issue for art?
Thinking about Curatorial Education Milan, for example
39
21 January 2014, 10 am
PRODUCTION
Constructing an Exhibition Display
with Architect Urs Egg
40
31 January 2014, 7pm
EXHIBITION
Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker
and Vera Frenkel
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42 62
21 February 2014, 7pm 11 April 2014, 7pm
TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK/CURATORIAL THEORY
Tom Trevor: Institutional Clinique–On Recuperation Sabine Gebhardt Fink: On Performance
43 63
21 February 2014, 9pm 16 April 2014, 6:30pm
MEETING AND TALKING TALK
Zurich artists meet with young curators Gabi Ngcobo: “I’ve got your back / Watch
your back!’”
44
28 February 2014, 7pm 64
TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE 23 April 2014, 7:30 pm
Mirjam Varadinis: Zero Performance–The Fragile FILM PROGRAMME
Beauty of Crisis Urban Research
45 66
07 March 2014, 7pm 24 April 2014, 7pm
TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE PERFORMANCE
Elke Krasny: On Epistemology and Historiography– Exercises with San Keller and students:
Critical CuratorialFeminist Practice Das Museum is bad for Paradeplatz
46 69
13 March 2014, 6:30pm 25 April 2014, 6pm
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION OPENING
Is it (Y)ours? Lucas Herzig: Ich sprang nur über Gräbelein und
fand kein einzig Schweizerlein
52
19 March 2014, 6:30pm 70
DISCUSSION 25 April 2014, 6:30 pm
Being with / the Other TALK & FILM PROGRAMME
Culture Loops Film Programme with artist Amir Yatziv
54
28 March 2014, 7pm 71
PERFORMANCE 26 April 2014, 8pm
Ben Patterson: Dr. Ben’s Fluxus Medicine Show SLEEPOVER
Sleep with a Curator
55
4 April 2014, 7pm 72
TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE 28 April–8 May 2014
Marianne Burki: Curating as an Art Foundation? WORKSHOPS
Preparing an Exhibitionby Connecting Spaces
56
10 April 2014, 5pm 73
BOOK LAUNCH/EXHIBITION 30 April 2014, 6pm
Francisco Paco Carrascosa: Johnnie Walker EXHIBITION OPENING
on the Beach What We See & Make Seen
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76 88
9 May 2014, 6pm 14 June 2014, 4pm
TALK/ARTISTIC PRACTICE LAUNCH & PARTY
Georg Winter: Joint exercise in the field ZWEIKOMMASIEBEN Issue 9: Party and
of psychotectonics Magazine Launch
77 89
9 May 2014, 7pm 20 June 2014, 7pm
EXHIBITION OPENING EXHIBITION OPENING
huber.huber: Land of Plenty The Painter of Modern Life: Frank Tang
79 90
9 May 2014, 11pm 12 July 2014, 7pm
LATE DINNER EXHIBITION OPENING
Sharing Pizza ART IN ACTION. Instead of Implementing Ideas:
Make People Think!
80
9 May 2014, midnight 96
FILM PROGRAMME 8 August 2014,
Overwhelmingly Ordinary EXHIBITION
Romancing the Context
81
16 May 2014, 7pm 98
TALK/ARTISTIC PRACTICE 8 August 2014, 7pm
Meir Tati: Artistic Practice EXHIBITION
Gaby Steiner: Public Home
82
21 May 2014, 7pm 100
DISCUSSION 8 August 2014,8 pm
Land of Plenty–Land of Milk and Honey or Land LIVE MUSIC
of Excess? Benjamin Brodbeck: Musical Performance Live!
83 101
23 May 2014, 6pm 6 September 2014, 7pm
Talk and Project EXHIBITION OPENING
Jyoti Mistry: Narrative, Memory and Site Burnout
85 104
24 May 2014, 2pm 3 October 2014, 7pm
TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Marc Glöde: Talk on Curatorial Practice Dorothee Richter: My Glam, Your Glam, Our
Glam–A Crossreading of Curating and Fashion
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30 May 2014, 7pm 105
EXHIBITION OPENING 10 October 2014, noon
Master of Advanced Studies in Curating EXHIBITION OPENING
What’s Cooking? A Re-Arrangement
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76 130
17 October 2014, 7pm 19 December 2014, 7pm
TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE TALK / CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Niko Ruffo and Nele Dechmann: Marina Coelho: KUNSTHALLE São Paulo – From
Curating Off the Beaten Track Thesis to Practice
111 131
24 October 2014, 6pm 19 December 2014, 8pm
EXHIBITION OPENING TALK / ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Unsettling the Setting: Playing, Plying, Squatting, Baltensperger+Siepert: Contemporary Practice–
Operating, Owning, Occupying–or rather? Unfolding Beyond the Art Space
119 132
1 November 2014, 2pm 21 December 2015, 10am
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION Interview
Open Questions: Unsettling the Setting Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interview on Curatorial Practice
122 133
21 November 2014, 7pm 21 December 2014, 5pm
TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE EVENT
Anja Casser: Let’s Take Back Our Space. Gender Re-Birth Day: A Project by Michelangelo Pistoletto
Politics and Curatorial Practice
134
123 9 January 2015, 4pm
21 November 2014, 7pm SYMPOSIUM
PERFORMANCE The Globalization of Periphery
Daniel Marti: Performance
136
124 16 January 2015, 7pm
7 December 2014, 7:30pm TALK / ARTISTIC PRATCISE
EXHIBITON !Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art under Mass Surveillance
A Is for Albatross
137
126 23 January 2015, 6pm
12 December 2014, 6:30pm EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION CONTROL / SHIFT / PLUS
The Third Paradise: Enlight the Future
139
128 20 February 2015, 6pm
12 December 2014, 7pm PERFORMANCE
EXHIBITION A Performative Piece by Nicole Bachmann
Shiyu Gao: Jam Tomorrow
140
129 20 February 2015, 7pm
12 December 2014, 7pm TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE
TALK/CURATORIAL PRACTICE Jelena Petrovic: The Living Archive
Marina Grzinic: Necropolitics, Racialization,
and Global Capitalism
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