April 2019

Curatorial Studio returns for 2019

SCAN is delighted to announce two events with Grant Watson, co-curator of the bauhaus imaginista project currently showing at HKW in Berlin, which explores the potential and international reach of the famous art and design school.  These events mark the return of Curatorial Studio, our ongoing project about, for, and by, contemporary art curators devised by Kirsteen Macdonald and developed by SCAN and partners across Scotland.

 

This year Curatorial Studio will invite key international curators to Scotland to hold small focused workshops and to give associated public talks on their work in a range of host venues across the country.

 

The workshop programme will be focused on supporting early career curators by exploring current projects, working practices and the free exchange of ideas. All our activities are free and places for each workshop will be allocated by SCAN after an open call. Our talks programme will draw on wider themes, to explore how curatorial work can tell new stories about the world, for the widest of audiences.

 

Curatorial Studio 2019 will highlight key international voices concerned with identity and representation, the impacts of transcultural exchange, and the possibilities for curatorial work to challenge dominant narratives.
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Grant Watson: How We Behave
Workshop
May 22, 11.00-16.00
Hospitalfield, Arbroath

 


This event is free and open to applications
Lunch will be provided

 

Inspired by an interview with the philosopher Michel Foucault published in Vanity Fair in 1983, entitled How We Behave, curator Grant Watson’s long-term project focuses on the central question that Foucault posed in this interview – why can’t life be ‘the material for a work of art’? The workshop will involve participant presentations, group discussion and close viewing of film material.

 

There are 10 free places available on this workshop, which is aimed at early career and freelance curators. The workshop will require a small amount of preparation in advance and participants should be ready for active participation. Numbers are limited and we hope to ensure that participants from across the country, and with wide range of backgrounds, have a chance to take part. To request a place please email info@sca-net.org with a CV and a short note of no more than 100 words telling us why you would like to take part. The deadline is  5pm on May 5. We are sorry that we may not be able to meet all the requests for a place.

 

This event is supported by Hospitalfield.

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Grant Watson: bauhaus imaginista
Public Talk
May 23, 18.00

Reid Lecture Theatre, The Glasgow School of Art


This event is free and bookable here.

 

 

The Bauhaus (1919-33) was founded in Germany as a manifestation of an ambition shared by artists, designers, architects and intellectuals throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States—their desire: to reinvent society. The current exhibition, bauhaus imaginista, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin reimagines the radical ideas that underpinned the Bauhaus’ foundation. The project’s co-curator Grant Watson will introduce how the pedagogy and teaching practices of the Bauhaus model transformed and adapted in different locations. This intensely collaborative project began in 2016 and involves a network of curatorial researchers, artists, designers, museums, and cultural and academic institutions, in India, Japan, China, the United States, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, and Morocco.

 

This event is supported by The Glasgow School of Art.
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photography credit: Martin Christopher Welker

About Grant Watson

Grant Watson (London, UK) is a curator and researcher. He has been working together with Marion von Osten as curator and artistic director of Bauhaus imaginista (2018–2019) since 2016. Before that he held the position of senior curator at the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London (2010–14), and worked as curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2006–10), and as curator of visual arts at the Project in Dublin (2001–06). Recent projects include How We Behave with If I Can’t Dance that explores questions of life practice and politics in cities such as London, São Paulo, Mumbai, and Los Angeles. Watson has a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.