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by TreborScholz on Thu Oct 23rd, 2003 at 05:52:43 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Dear Stella, Geert, Ryan,

I strongly support Stella's important CuratingDegreeZeroArchive project! Such framing and re-insertion of critical curatorial practices into public awareness is - at least in an US American context- very rare and should be highly valued. I wish there would be many more such initiatives and we should celebrate them!

With regard to institutional critique I wonder about the debatable dynamic that is created when an artist or curator is invited to put on an cathartic situation in an institution, which pays the creative agent to fulfill this role, edify the institution that can then go on as before. The mid-90s gave us many examples of this phenomena.

It is amazing that Stella and her collaborators, pulled this archive project together- a question I'd have may be more concerned with the loss of context for the individual projects in the specific project. Stella writes: "gender equality, economic injustice, manipulative power systems - to name only a few examples" are addressed in the many curatorial projects archived here. How could the topics presented not get lost in this database-type interface?

A project with gender under the magnifying glass that took place in Geneva or Vienna a few years ago can be inspirational to many who have curatorial intent but it looses its effectiveness with regard to the concrete situations originally at stake in this documentation context. How could the sociopolitical context to which these initiatives reacted or grew out of be re-vitalized?
How can the website of CuratingDegreeZeroArchive really become an even more powerful resource beyond the links to projects.

How amazing would it be hear interviews with all these facilitators of events and programs with critical intent. It's not fair to ask that of Stella and her collaborators but I'd love to see something like that--

What did the facilitators learn from their organizational experience? How did they manage to go beyond token event in a privileged (maybe educational) setting? What were the results? How did they get funding for their programs or exhibitions? How can I contact them to collaborate with them on a new project aiming at setting up constellations of productive discontent? What were the conceptual means they used to address specific political situations?




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