Doha: Building on the success of the 2015 inaugural programme Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha is organising its second Curatorial Summer Camp from September 4 to September 9, 2016.
Local and regional curators are invited to participate in the six day camp that includes a series of lectures, talks, discussions, tours, and other creative presentations by curators and professionals in the field.
Those interested in applying should email a one page letter of interest, CV, and 250 word curatorial proposal related to curating archives, to: [email protected] by 18 August 2016.
Guest lecturers this year include curators Vasif Kortun, Director of Research & Programs of SALT Istanbul, and Kristine Khouri, Independent Researcher and Curator. They join Mathaf Director Abdellah Karroum, museum’s curators and local archive specialists to participate in a variety of sessions during the Curatorial Summer Camp.
Topics addressed in the programme include curating archives, artist’s archives, and regionally specific possibilities for documenting, archiving, and sharing histories of cultural production, exhibitions, and other creative encounters in the Arab region.
Members of Qatar’s artistic and creative community participated in2015’s successful three month program that featured a number of presentations and workshops delivered by curators including Carolyn Christov–Bakargiev, Juan Gaitan, Jean-Hubert Martin, and Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, with Mathaf curators and educators.
Mathaf Director, Abdellah Karroum said: “Following the success of our first Curatorial Summer Camp at Mathaf, we are offering this new opportunity to local and regional curators and art professionals. Our curatorial summer camp follows initiatives such as Project Space, dedicated to new tendencies in artistic production and emerging curatorial practices and highlights the role that the museum plays as a site of knowledge production and debate, and our commitment to sharing new perspectives on art in relation to its contexts. Through such programmes in the field, we aim to develop an engaged cultural audience and develop individuals’ interest in artistic and curatorial practices”
The programme interrogates curatorial thinking and practices to introduce ideas and debates on art discourse and the practical application of curating. The programme is open to local and regional creative professionals, students, and scholars interested in developing a contemporary critical discourse on practices in art and curating.
The Curatorial Summer Camp initiative comes as part of Mathaf’s ongoing curatorial and research project, Doha Art Map, a collaborative mapping experiment to locate creativity and artistic production in Doha
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