Being part of the student forum of the ICA and informed of the activities in this gallery, The trouble with Curating seemed as one I must go to. Big names were to show up and it was said to be sold out.
Invited were:
- Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain
- Emily Pethick, director of the Showroom
- Steven Playton, artists and curator (interesting exhibition in Camden Arts Centre in 2007)
- Pavel Buchler, artists, writer, lecturer, curator.
Head of the MA Curating at Goldsmiths was leading the talk, but instead of giving it some depth it didn't go anywhere and didn't answer or posed any interesting questions.
What the trouble of curating is, or even why that was the subject of the evening wasn't clear. Pavel Buchler commented interestingly about the question 'Do we need curators?' that we should look at this question against the background of ' What is that we need them for?'.
The rest of the discussion was more about all the things a curator can do, the relationship between the collector (of a museum) and the exhibition maker (curator).
I should have had a starting point of what a curator is or can be to ask other questions than these and to discuss what the trouble is with curating?
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