Seminar “Exhibiting Beyond the Physical Space”
Please note that, as part of the Eu4art Project, an online seminar will take place on the Zoom platform, organised by the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden.
The Seminar will start on 25/11/2020 and will take place weekly every Wednesday from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm until February 2021.
The seminar, led by Paul Barsch, will be held in English. The seminar participants will work together to develop an online exhibition project. Guests participating in the seminar include Nuno Patrício (artist, curator and founder of ofluxo.net), Michele Gabriele & Monia Ben Hamouda (artists, curators and founders of something must break) and David Quiles Guilló (founder of the online Biennale thewrong.org).
The seminar will develop and explore the possibilities, trends and strategies for presenting works of art online, in a digital exhibition space.
To participate, students in Rome must register exclusively at this email address: v.berchicci@abaroma.it by 18/11/2020.
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A seminar held by Paul Barsch
As the digital appearance or reproduction of a work of art becomes more and more important due to the increasing possibilities of digital dissemination and circulation mechanisms, there is also a shift towards exhibitions that are developed for online reception. The Corona crisis showed, however, how limited the common presentation formats of art are despite digitalisation. The standardised (and institutionalised) physical art presentation (e.g. White Cube) is not really suitable for the digital realm, and a dry shift from physical to digital often remains lifeless. The curatorial urge should therefore be to continue to investigate the question of how to think about and define the showing of art anew in the post-digital age!
The seminar develops and explores possibilities, strategies and tendencies of exhibitions and art presentation online and beyond the standardised exhibition space. The participants work together towards an online exhibition project, platform models or (online) solutions that are sustainably functional and usable. The aim is to develop ideas for artistically linking new virtual and physical presentation and production approaches with collaborative working methods. How can we work together while being geographically separated? How can art be presented virtually and beyond the white cube, and how can it endure as art in newly found spaces? How do we design the digital processing and distribution of art? How can and must the ‘shift’ from the physical to the digital and vice versa be artistically (and poetically) conceived and designed? It is precisely an artistic and creative form of art presentation, distribution and collaboration that is in demand. Think of the seminar as online ‘class meetings’ where we will work, explore, discuss and exchange ideas to develop a project. We will host guests during the course of the seminar – Nuno Patrício (artist, curator and founder of ofluxo.net), Michele Gabriele & Monia Ben Hamouda (artists, curators and founders of something must break) and David Quiles Guilló, founder of the online biennale thewrong.org – who will speak about their practice and experience with online exhibition projects and will be available for Q&As.
Paul Barsch is a visual artist and curator based in Dresden and Cologne who works across media and contexts with culturally charged material and site- and idea-specific concepts. He is the co-founder of the artistic and curatorial project New Scenario; a dynamic platform for conceptual, post-cube, online exhibitions, and has an interest in artistic modes of art presentation and image strategies beyond the white cube. He was one of the Initiators of Pizza Pavilion at Venice Biennale #56 and teaches ‘basics of animation’ at Dresden Art Academy. paulbarsch.denewscenario.net
Start: Wednesday 25 November 2020, 1 pm CET
Duration: weekly, every Wednesday, 1 pm-3 pm, Nov ’20-Feb ’21
Register until 18 November 2020
