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shelf talk #5: Echoes and Overlaps lezing

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Echoes and Overlaps – a lecture by Rachel Dedman and Susanne Weiss

Curators Rachel Dedman and Susanne Weiss give a lecture around libraries as epistemological sites, and spaces for curatorial inspiration and intervention.

-> Rachel will introduce the library at Mansion, Beirut—a century-old house which has been conscientiously restored and reanimated by its community, working against the dominant logic of privatisation of public space in Lebanon. Its library is mostly gathered from other abandoned buildings, and has no formal catalogue. 
-> In her exhibition series ‘solo show: not alone’ at the Heidelberger Kunstverein, Susanne invited artists to include in the exhibition the references, things and thoughts that inspired the artworks. Artists Ulf Aminde, Heide Hinrichs and Annette Weisser included personal or private libraries, such as that of Annette Weisser’s aunt, or documents of W.G. Sebald’s estate. What role did these books play in the exhibition’s dramaturgy and how did they inform its further development with the public? 

On April 3rd, Rachel and Susanne will give a workshop led by the Second Shelf collection. Each participant is invited to choose a small selection of books, based on personal inclination (content, imagery, linguistics, materiality, or emotive potential). Diving into the books’ individual worlds, we seek echoes, overlaps, and intertextual connection across and between them—collectively curating a pop-up exhibition that carves new paths through the Second Shelf library.

Rachel Dedman is an independent curator and writer based between Beirut and London. Current and recent curatorial work includes projects for Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; Kiln Theatre, London; the Jerusalem Show IX; and the Palestinian Museum, Ramallah. Rachel is co-founder and editor of polycephaly.net, and one third of Earth Hold, a collective project currently commissioning radio broadcasts from artists. She writes for Ibraaz, Reorient, and Spike, among many others, and is the author of two books on the politics of Palestinian textiles and dress. Rachel studied history of art at St John’s College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Postgraduate Fellow at Harvard University, specialising in contemporary art from the Middle East. She was a participant of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, Beirut, in 2013/14. www.racheldedman.com

Susanne Weiß is a an independent curator based in Berlin. She has been director of the Heidelberger Kunstverein from 2012 to the end of 2016, where she developed a programme and a series of curatorial formats that follow process-oriented and experimental approaches. She has presented solo-shows with Ulf Aminde, Heide Hinrichs, Melton Prior Institute, Aurélien Froment, Astrid S. Klein, Stuart Sherman and Annette Weisser amongst others. In autumn 2013 she has been a stipend of the cultural academy in Tarabya, Istanbul. From 2009 – 2010 she was working for the Goethe Institut Abu Dhabi in Sharjah at the Sharjah Museums Department. Since 2007 she is a member of the RealismusStudio of the nGbK Berlin. From to 2007 – 2008 she was deputy director of the Kunsthaus Dresden – Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst. Susanne Weiß is a museologist and has been working since 1996 in various contexts and places like London, Oxford, Jerusalem, Wien, Dresden, Sharjah and Berlin. See also http://www.mukimaki.de/

 

This is part of the shelf talks lecture series in the library of the Royal Academy. 

2/4/19 shelf talk #5
Echoes and Overlaps / Rachel Dedman (London, Beirut) and Susanne Weiss (Berlin) / Library, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 6pm
3/4/19 workshop 10 am Library

7/5/19 shelf talk #6
Slugs, widows, bleed and orphans / Sara De Bondt (Ghent) / Library, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 6pm

14/5/10 shelf talk #7
Towards a Feminist Practice: notes on listening / Marisa C. Sánchez / Library, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 6pm

11/6/19 shelf talk #8
_spectres of a library; establishing debris as debt / Anna Dasović / Library, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 6pm

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ABOUT SHELF TALKS / SECOND SHELF
Our frame of reference is very important in the way we think and in the way artists create. By supporting this research project, the Academy is exploring the diversity of (art) books in the library and broadening this frame. In Heide Hinrichs’ project “second shelf” books are being integrated into the Academy’s collection with a special code so you can track this invisible thematic series. In addition to the acquisition of books by non-white, non-male and non-heterosexual artists, and interventions in the library, second shelf is hosting a series of "shelf talks”. The book selection, interventions and talks are curated in collaboration with partners in Germany, UK, US and Canada.
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Read more: www.second-shelf.org/about/


NEXT SHELF TALKS
7.05.2019 shelf talk #6: Slugs, widows, bleed and orphans / Sara De Bondt (Ghent) 
14.5.2019 shelf talk #7: Towards a Feminist Practice: notes on listening / Marisa C. Sánchez 
11.06.2019 shelf talk #8: _spectres of a library; establishing debris as debt / Anna Dasović