Curating Diversity in Europe, Panel I: The Emancipation of Curating
Channel: Akademie der Künste
Date: 2020-10-15

with Stefanie Carp, Artyom Kim, Sharif Sehnaoui, Du Yun, Juliana Hodkinson 

The Panel "The Emancipation of Curating" is part of the symposium "Curating Diversity in Europe. Decolonizing Contemporary Music", which took place on September 25 2020 in Akademie der Künste Berlin and online. 
"Curating Diversity in Europe" offers a platform for keeping the discourse on diversity in contemporary music in Europe alive, developing potentials for transformation during a time of limited international encounters and swelling nationalistic currents. The focus of the symposium is on processes and profiles of curating that critically question power structures and eurological patterns of thought, to implement political, collective or participatory strategies in the curatorial decision-making process.

The panel "The Emancipation of Curating" explores strategies for the emancipation of curatorial processes from current power structures. These include participatory, dialogical and process-oriented approaches, as well as collective and self-organized, automatic and random forms of program development. The focus is on the role of curators today in fostering diversity and provoking change by negotiating topics that are relevant for a pluralistic society. In addition, we will discuss how regional contexts can change perspectives on curating and create completely new approaches and musical emphases that shift our understanding of contemporary music itself.

The symposium is a project of "Sounds Now", a European network dedicated to promoting more diversity and inclusion in contemporary music and sound art, in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, inm / field notes and Ultima Festival in Oslo.

The symposium will be continued in May 2021 as part of the "Memories in Music" festival (May 6-9, 2021) at the Akademie der Künste.


video: Livestream Berlin

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