Cultural Institutions in Transition: Imagination, Thought and Practice
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Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThis event will be presented in Portuguese and English with simultaneous translation and with interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language. It will be livestreamed on this page.
Two talks that bring together the Director of the Jan Van Eyck Academie Hicham Khalidi and the curator Raphael Fonseca with Luísa Santos and Sofia Victorino, co-curators of this programme. In this session, we observe changes underway in different art institutions and discuss new models to transform practices in these institutions.
Biographies
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Hicham Khalidi
Director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, in the Netherlands, a Post-Academy for Art, Design and Reflection that offers residencies to international artists, writers, curators and architects. Its institutional focus opens up a wide discourse and creates a framework that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices. Khalidi previously served as a cultural attaché to the Biennale of Sydney in 2016, and was chief curator of the Marrakesh Biennale in 2014. He’s currently the curator of the Dutch entry for the 2024 Venice Biennale.
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Raphael Fonseca
Curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum, in the USA. He has a doctorate in Art History and Criticism from UERJ, and is interested in the relationships between art, visual culture and history in their diverse meanings. His research increasingly focuses on humour, pop culture and the understanding that an exhibition is related to installation, stage design and spectacle. He was included in ArtReview’s 2024 list of 100 most influential people in the visual arts in the world.
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Sepake Angiama
Sepake Angiama is the artistic director of the Institute of International Visual Arts, dedicated to developing commissions, artistic research, radial education practices, collective study, publishing and community-led commissioning that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation. Her praxis stems from radical pedagogies, black feminist thought, rethinking human/non–human relations rooted in how we might reimagine and inhabit the world otherwise.
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Sofia Victorino
A researcher and recipient of a scholarship from the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia for her doctorate in History at the Institute of Contemporary History of FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was Director of Education and Public Programmes for Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011-2021), following a position as Education Service coordinator for the Serralves Foundation (2002-2011). Her professional and academic activity focuses on the intersections between collaborative artistic practices, education and decolonial thought.
Programme
15:30 / Introduction
15:35 / Talk
If we observe the different temporalities and interdependencies of the substances of nature, we can establish parallels with the multiple rhythms and capabilities of art institutions.
In the practices of the Jan Van Eyck Academie, with a Department dedicated to Nature Research, the rhythms of nature are linked to the different needs and capacities inherent in the academy itself and its participants. In this conversation, we discuss processes of transformation in the epistemic and systemic cultures of art institutions based on these different temporalities and capacities.
16:20 / Talk
What knowledge does an exhibition produce? Can the curator subvert hegemonic positions and Eurocentric discourses? How can projects for wider audiences be developed?
This talk will touch on more or less visible transitions in art institutions with different scales and contexts – from MAC in Niterói, Brazil, to the Denver Art Museum, USA, or the Bienal do Mercosul 2024. This will be the starting point for a discussion on concepts of decoloniality and representation, in connection with curatorial and mediation practices as methodologies for thinking and making together.
17:00 / Talk followed by Q&A
17:30 / Closing
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