6–7 February 2019
Amsterdam
Curating Strategies of Productive Refusal with Gabi Ngcobo FULLY BOOKED! We regret to inform you that both lecture and seminar with Gabi Ngcobo on Wednesday 6 February (19:00 – 20:30 hrs), and Thursday 7 February (14:00 – 16:00 hrs) are now fully booked.
During this two-day event Gabi Ngcobo will discuss refusal as a curatorial strategy as employed in her collaborative projects. These include NGO – Nothing Gets Organized, Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14) and the 10th Berlin Biennale: We Don’t Need Another Hero, which resisted the desire for a single heroic conclusion in favor of embracing complexity. Herein, refusal is applied as a strategy to challenge the uptake of assigned or inherited responsibilities that keep certain people in roles whereby they are expected to explain to those who have the privilege not to know. The first session will take shape in the form of an evening lecture at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, where Ngcobo is also a guest advisor. The second day at The Black Archives, Amsterdam, will go deeper into the topic in a closed seminar, where some preparatory readings will be provided after registration.
Initiated by Casco Art Institute, Curating Strategies of Productive Refusal is organized in line with one of Casco’s study lines on the commons, Angry letters. Angry Letters works with the magazine as a repository medium for collating tools that de-center the oppressor/s in conversations on freedom and liberation.
