Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 15:30-17:00
Location: Grote Zaal, Muntstraat 2A, Utrecht
For this Meet the Makers session, freelance curator Ward Janssen will discuss how curators—as artworkers—are always striking a balance in creating possibilities to present exciting art to audiences. While working closely with artists, networks of other artworkers, and partners in the cultural field, curators must also be able to manoeuvre within institutional policies, financial structures, and numerous risk factors that can make or break cultural projects.
Creating artistic concepts, articulating varied discourses to multiple stakeholders, and safeguarding the artistic freedom for artists are all integral parts of curating art today. As such, curation is an exciting artistic practice, but also one where the possibilities to fail are abundant: you can fail in the fundraising rat race, you can fail in fully supporting artists, you can fail in bringing a concept into production, and you always risk failing in engaging the audience in just the right way. While these risk factors might feel overwhelming at times, the rewards of curating are thankfully high: creating the possibility for (new) artists to produce and show their work.
This Meet the Makers session will address the demands and power systems at work in the contemporary Dutch cultural field for a freelance curator. The discussion on the inherent risks of artworking as a curator will be frank and will present a range of examples of working with and within these systems. The session will be moderated by Dr. David Gauthier.
If you wish to attend this event please RSVP via this form.
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Meet the Makers aims to facilitate meetings and conversations between academic researchers and students, and makers – such as artists, curators, dramaturges, designers, or other creative practitioners and professionals within the wider field of arts and culture.
