Throughout 2019 ICI is reading and thinking through Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe. This selection of texts by Zdenka Badovinac, edited by J. Myers-Szupinska, gathers twenty years of writings from disparate and hard-to-find sources alongside new texts from the forward-thinking Slovenian curator, museum director, and scholar Zdenka Badovinac.
On April 23 we are reading the second chapter “Form-Specific Art,” translated by Borut Cajnko and previously published by the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana in 2003. The conversation will be co-led with writer Margot Bouman and artist and filmmaker Clemens Poole.
ICI’s 2019 Comradeship Reading Group is open to the public and co-led by a group of 14 core participants: Shehab Awad, Jess Barbagallo, Margot Bouman, Kate Fowle, Yin Ho, Ladi’Sasha Jones, Carlos Kong, Lynn Maliszewski, Amanda Parmer, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Birgit Rathsmann, Cory Tamler, Mike Tan and Jovana Stokic. In these monthly sessions we consider how the breadth of material Badovinac covers in her collected writing intersects with our contemporary and respective work in the context of New York in 2019. Topics Badovinac addresses in her writing include questions of alterity, decolonization, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic models, instating institutions, parallel and subordinate histories, Laibach, punk and alternative music scenes, code switching, multiculturalism, duration and performance, standardization, the body as a medium for games of power and control, self-determination and self-management, IRWIN, hybridity, critiques of the modernist understanding of quality, quantification of everyday life, allegory, memory and sustainability. These are only a handful of the many incisive connections that Badovinac’s writing elicits, which we draw out and think through in conversation.
Order Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe by Zdenka Badovinac, published by ICI. Available here.
Subsequent Comradeship Reading Group dates include:
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | 6:30 – 8PM
Exhibitions; History: Interrupted Histories
Pages 89-102
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | 6:30 – 8PM
Contemporaneity; Repetition: The Museum of Contemporary Art
Pages 103-120
This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with READING GROUP in the subject line. A PDF of the chapter that will be discussed event will be emailed upon RSVP.
This event is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact ICI for additional accessibility needs.
