Deze workshop gaat door in het Engels.
Echoes and Overlaps – a workshop by Rachel Dedman and Susanne Weiss
A bookshelf in the domestic sphere is not only a place in which books are kept as beautiful objects, accessible references, and as testaments to histories of reading. It is also a site for constellations of objects that live on the peripheries of a room, whether as a result of careful selection, or the accidental migration of objects.
As part of this workshop, we ask you to bring an item from your bookshelf. It can be anything—book, lighter, card, candle—preferably something with meaning. These objects will be a starting point for the creation of mini-displays within the library, inspired by practices discussed in Tuesday night’s lecture. Libraries within teaching institutions tend to follow academic systems of indexing, authorship, and thematic connection. This workshop seeks to invest the KASK library with some of the intimacy of home, using the objects and our relationships to them as catalysts for more subjective, speculative approach to connecting and displaying books. Join us to make a temporary, collective exhibition in three hours, and read your library differently.
Max. 12 people can participate! Reserve your seat via heide.hinrichs@ap.be.
Attendance to the lecture on 02.04 is mandatory if you would like to join the workshop.
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