SONIC ACTS ACADEMY
Nora Sternfeld – Negotiating with Reality: Artistic and Curatorial Research
23 February 2018 – Dansmakers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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How can we learn something that we don’t yet know? This sounds like a paradox, but isn’t it actually what research is all about? In recent years, several post-representational curatorial and artistic endeavours and forms of practice-based research have tried to encounter this paradox. Nora Sternfeld’s lecture follows curatorial and artistic strategies of knowledge production as exploration, investigation, imagination, and/or reflection. Rather than representing valuable objects and objective values, these strategies have entered a process of ‘negotiating with reality’: they act in the space between representation and presence and challenge what can be seen, done, and said.
Nora Sternfeld (Austria/Finland) is an educator and curator. She is a documenta Professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and a Professor of Curating and Mediating Art at Aalto University in Helsinki. She is a co-director of the ecm (educating/curating/managing) Master Programme in exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With Ines Garnitschnig, Renate Höllwart, and Elke Smodics, she is part of trafo.K, Office for Art, Education and Critical Knowledge Production in Vienna. With Irit Rogoff, Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Mao Mollona, and Louis Moreno, she is part of freethought, a platform for research, education, and production in London. She publishes on contemporary art, exhibition theory, education, politics of history, and anti-racism.
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