Curatorial Residency Spring 2007
SERGIO EDELSZTEIN
hosted by
Spacex and
Dartington College of Arts, UK
Resume
Sergio Edelsztein, Director of the
Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956. Studied at the Tel Aviv University (1976-85). Funded and directed Artifact Gallery in Tel Aviv (1987-1995). In 1995 funded The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and has been its director and chief curator since then. In the framework of the CCA he curated five Performance Art Biennials and three International Video Art Biennials - Video Zone (2002 – 2004 - 2006). Also curated numerous experimental and video art screenings, retrospectives and performances events. Since the CCA move to a new building in 2005, he has been responsible for developing an exhibition program surveying the last decade both in Israeli and international art. Since 1995 curated time-based events in Spain, China and elsewhere, as well as the Israeli participation at the 24th Sao Paulo Biennial and the 2005 Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Biennale in Venice. Lectured, presented video programs and published in Israel, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Austria, Germany, China, the USA, Argentina etc. Wrote extensively for catalogues, web sites and publications – serving lately as curator for ICE CREAM forthcoming from Phaidon Press in spring 2007.
Residency
The residency 'Curating the Other: Curator as Tourist' proposes to research the theme of globalization of the curatorial practices that follow the economic phenomenon. It focuses around the legitimization of peripheral, exotic and primitive arts, and the urge of the 'centres' to adopt and absorb their artistic practices and style.
The residency will develop as a critical mapping of the art world focusing on curatorial enterprises that are perceived by the general public as 'representative' of foreign cultures surveying selected art events, Biennales and Mega-shows, that took place in the last years. Focusing in selected geographical areas and events we’ll try to understand curatorial methodologies and elucidate the motives, mechanisms and interests behind artist’s selection and presentation.
In focusing in specific areas, events and guest practitioners and their experience, the
seminar feeds of this research to facilitate the discussion around the idea of the cultural 'peripheries' and the 'centres' while proposing alternative systems of integration.
