Rethinking Publicness – today and tomorrow explores the meaning of publicness and what this concept entails from the perspective of art. Göteborgs Konsthall, HDK-Valand, and Gibca have jointly invited a number of internationally practicing artists to share their experiences of working under conditions that have a critical impact on artistic creativity and participation. The artists talk about different methods of doing and thinking during the pandemic and reflect on what the encounter between art and audience can entail in the future.
Over the past year, all institutions and professionally active artists have directly or indirectly had to consider how to deal with publicness. This event is an opportunity to address the issue openly, generously and speculatively together. The program presents a variety of contemporary definitions of publicness; what it can be, what it is now, and possible common futures for institutions, artists, students, participants, audiences and the general public.
Keynote speaker: Michelle Teran.
Participating artists: FRAUD, Jonas Staal and others.
The discussion is facilitated by Dr Viviana Checchia, senior lecturer, Fine Art at HDK-Valand.
This is a digital event on zoom and will be in English.
PROGRAM
13-13.15 Welcome speech by Stina Edblom, Artistic leader Göteborgs Konsthall, and moderator Viviana Checchia gives a short introduction to the program
13.15-13.50 Keynote Michelle Teran
13.50-14 Break
14-14.30 FRAUD presentation
14.30-14.55 Jonas Staal presentation
14.55-15.10 Break
15.10-16 Moderated panel discussion/ Q&A with integrated conclusions by Michelle Teran
ZOOM LINK:
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/68369468388...
Photo: Jonas Staal and Jan Fermon, Collectivize Facebook. Photographer: Ruben Hamelink.
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PARTICIPANTS:
MICHELLE TERAN (born in Canada) is an educator, artist, and researcher. She is a practice-oriented Research Professor of Social Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA). Her research areas encompass socially engaged and site-specific art, counter-cartographies, social movements, feminist, and critical pedagogy. Her artistic works inhabit multiple forms and formats, pedagogical experiments, film, performance, participatory events, and video interventions in public space and book works.
FRAUD (Audrey Samson & Francisco Gallardo) is a London-based duo of artist/researchers which develop modes of art-led enquiry that examine the extractive gaze of the European Union’s institutions and policies. Through their practice, FRAUD cultivate critical spatial literacy and cosmogony building. Samson is a Lecturer in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Gallardo is currently Assistant Lecturer at King’s College.
JONAS STAAL is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing). Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing), and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook (2020-ongoing).
VIVIANA CHECCHIA is a curator and researcher active internationally. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at HDK-Valand. Before this role she was Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts: Glasgow (CCA). For the past ten years, she has co-directed Vessel, a platform for critical discussion surrounding the cultural, social, economic, and political change created through community-based work.
