Afterall Symposium 'Artist as Curator' Videos Now Online

On 10 November 2012, Afterall held a symposium titled 'Artist as Curator' at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. The event featured a keynote by Elena Filipovic, who traced how artists from Marcel Duchamp to David Hammons have transformed exhibition-making, challenging traditional authorship. The first session, 'Spaces,' included Elena Crippa on Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore's 1957 installation 'an Exhibit' and Ekaterina Degot on Moscow's apartment galleries like Apt Art and Trekhprudny Squat from the 1980s–90s. The second session, 'Communities,' featured Alison Green on Group Material's activist curatorial practice in a Lower East Side storefront and David Teh on the professionalization of artist-curators in Southeast Asia. The final session, 'Practice,' included Valerie Smith on Mike Kelley's 'The Uncanny' (1993) at Sonsbeek '93, Willem de Rooij on his exhibition 'Intolerance' (2010) juxtaposing 17th-century Dutch bird portraits with 18th-century Hawaiian feathered objects, and Ruth Noack's paper 'Curator as Artist?' questioning boundaries between art and curatorial practice. Video documentation of each talk is available on Afterall's website.