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A Symposium on Curatorial Thinking in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond
PUBLICS expands The Centre For Curatorial Thinking activities to create a series of new annual large scale international symposia focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and PUBLICNESS in, across and in relation to Finland, Nordic-Baltic region and beyond. IHME Helsinki is one of the partners of the symposium.
Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Thinking in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond is organised and co-hosted by PUBLICS with Amos Rex and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Positioning is a globally networked enquiry into current and future curatorial thinking in the Nordic-Baltic region during a time of urgencies, and of radical uncertainty for culture and human rights.
We come together to consider how we can think and work together, how to position ourselves with others, and how to bridge the local-regional-global curatorial nexus within and beyond the region. A rethinking of these relations is necessary to expand our comprehension of this factious ‘present’, with ever increasing inequalities, political fragilities, increased discrimination, structural violence, conflict, and civic uncertainty. Positioning provides a critical space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and regional actors, agencies, and international contemporary art scenes and curatorial thinkers.
Positioning is the first symposium in a series of four that considers Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting, Collaborating, and explores the importance of Curatorial Thinking and its public discourse across Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region, and internationally. Employing a ‘work-together’ methodology, combining and sharing networks and knowledge resources, the symposium series is a collaboration across a dispersed curatorial network of 100+ cultural agencies from the Nordic-Baltic regions actively taking part in The Centre for Curatorial Thinking program since 2023.
Admission is free and open to the public!
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