The whole group (all six!) is in Turkey for the biennale. We´ve met up with the four from Konstfack´s [nomadic postgraduate one-year thing] CuratorLab and are participating in the so called Big Family Business Programme directed by two of them, Esther Lu and Adnan Yildiz. So far, we´ve beed discussing among many other things the different ways to use your blog as a platform for curatorial/critical practice and a channel of communication different from the conventional, formal ways that only rarely give any insight into the actual working process.
The group sessions take place in the shades outside the BFB office situated in one of the biennial´s official venues, a local style shopping mall for textiles and fashion with tea house gardens in the middles and on the floortops, with frequent servings of strong tea in traditional, tiny glasses. Bliss! Next on our extensive program put together by Esther and Adnan is the Curatorial Summit with among others Vasif Kortun, one of the two who curated the last biennial in town. Better go get a tea refill.
WIRE is the MA programme in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at the art and design college Konstfack in Stockholm (WIRE = write, interpret, research, exhibit). In posts labeled The WIRE Diaries, you´ll find a continuous update on what we do and some reflections on it all. Note that these are hardly official Konstfack or WIRE evaluations but on my part only.
