{"id":4856,"date":"2016-05-19T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onmediationplatform.com\/about-onmediation\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:30:20","slug":"about-onmediation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onmediationplatform.com\/en\/about-onmediation\/","title":{"rendered":"About ONMEDIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ON MEDIATION. Platform on curatorship and research<\/strong> arises from the research group Art Globalization Interculturality<\/a>\u00a0(University of Barcelona<\/a>) as a result of the need to examine in depth the results of contemporary curatorial practices understood as a mechanism of mediation, \u2018thinking beyond the specialized role\u2019 and creating a space for debate \u2018on the cultural location of this mediation\u2019 (Lars Bang Larsen & Soren Andresen, 2006).<\/p>\n

ON MEDIATION. Platform on curatorship and research<\/strong> is a theoretical and practical platform, which addresses various perspectives to identify different methodologies to push curatorial practice towards a post-disciplinary setting. Among other activities, ON MEDIATION<\/strong>\u00a0offers an annual International\u00a0Seminar which is\u00a0organized through an initial \u2013theoretical \u2013 stage of lectures, led by curators of recognized international experience, and a second \u2013 practical \u2013 stage, where participants can develop the ideas put forward during the seminar through a mentored curatorial project, presented in\u00a0different spaces within the artistic scene of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

When ON MEDIATION\u00a0defends the role of theory in the curatorial practice<\/strong>, we also do so regarding research<\/strong>, emphasising three aspects:<\/p>\n
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  1. Research as\u00a0experience<\/strong>,\u00a0which should be the starting point for any mechanism of investigation. To this should be added a certain compulsion to highlight a subjective dimension derived from the individual and \u201cexperiential\u201d encounters of each curator with the multiple questions that come from \u201cinhabiting\u201d a global world. Curation as a \u201cnarrative of experience\u201d, as Irit Rogoff argues.<\/li>\n
  2. Research as part of the archival strategy<\/strong>. Remobilising and reanimating the past together with history. Producing histories in a different way.<\/li>\n
  3. A new research paradigm:\u00a0curiosity<\/strong>. The desire to learn more. A mode of encounter led by pleasure, surprise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We locate ourselves, furthermore, within the framework of what we would like to call the curatorial turn<\/em>: a turn within which we understand the \u201ccuratorial\u201d as a field of \u201coverlapping\u201d and \u201cintertwining\u201d activities, tasks, and roles that were previously attributed to distinct institutions and disciplines.<\/p>\n

    The \u201ccuratorial\u201d not only implies a mode of generating, mediating, and reflecting experience <\/strong>and knowledge <\/strong>developed in artists\u2019 studios and cultural institutions, but also refers to a wide field of knowledge related to art and culture <\/strong>in the different contexts in which these are defined.<\/p>\n

    In any case, we understand the \u201ccuratorial\u201d in relation to a \u201cconstellational mode<\/strong>\u201d where objects (works of art), information (theoretical discourses), people (artists, curators, managers of institutions), and spaces (museums, galleries, alternative spaces) converge and coalesce <\/strong>in a dynamic way, oriented towards the process<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    ON MEDIATION always starts from a socio-political dimension of the \u201ccuratorial\u201d within our contemporary society, which is marked by globalisation within the artistic field <\/strong>and \u201cimmaterial\u201d working conditions in the socio-economic field<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    In conclusion, this seminar is aimed at artists, critics, students, researchers, and other groups interested in developing their curatorial concerns beyond the disciplinary sphere, exploring in depth the practice of cultural mediation <\/strong>and questioning imposed models.<\/div>

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