Situation 3. The Image

Learning and research program in collective curating

(creating) Situations

(crear) Situacions: art i pensament participatius

The third edition of (creating) Situations will have a more intensive format of 8 sessions between the last week of June and the first week of July.

The program will be closely related to the ongoing exhibition cycle at Santa Mònica, which this time will focus on the image and question its status at a time when there are obvious processes of accumulation and repetition.

This new edition stems from the specific desire to activate a temporary community of research and learning. In this framework, participants will acquire, share and develop theoretical-practical resources that they will also use to collectively unravel and analyze various participation and mediation situations generated around the exhibition cycle of Santa Mònica, as well as others linked to the cultural programming of the city.

We will have dialogues with the curatorial team and the artists involved in the exhibition cycle, workshops with research groups from the center and invited speakers to enrich collective debates, as well as activities aligned with other proposals on the city's cultural agenda.

Programme

Sessions with curators and artists: these sessions will address the curatorial process that has led to the current exhibition (14.06.23 - 25.09.23) on the status of the image.
Theoretical-practical research and experimentation sessions on the image with resident artists and other guests: in these sessions, resident artists at Santa Mònica and invited speakers will propose a series of artistic mediation research and experimentation devices that will allow the group to engage in dialogue with the questions posed by the exhibition program from different transmedial formats.
Reading groups: a selection of relevant texts on art institutions, curatorial practice as a relational practice, and concepts around the ongoing exhibition will be read and discussed jointly with the following conductors: Enric Puig (director of Santa Mònica), Clara Laguillo (cultural worker) and Adrià Porta Caballé (pre-doctoral researcher in philosophy at UB).
Cultural agenda: with the intention of situating this course in the city's cultural context, the program will include some sessions in dialogue with related proposals from other cultural venues in Barcelona.

Who is it for?

The course is designed for people seeking both practical and theoretical initiation in collective curatorial practices. (creating) Situations uncovers the processes and interiorities behind the curating of an exhibition at Santa Mònica with the aim of activating temporary communities of research and learning, as well as contributing to artistic, curatorial, or theoretical careers.

Places are limited. For this reason, Santa Mònica will select participating people based on their curriculum vitae and motivation letter. There is no age or previous qualification requirement, but profiles with a certain life, academic or professional experience that can contribute to the rest of the group are valued.

General Information

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, from June 27th to July 7th, 2023 (24 teaching hours).

DATES AND TIMETABLE

Catalan and Spanish.

Occasional activities in English.

LANGUAGES

Face-to-face

MODE

Santa Mònica

PLACE

72 € – General
48 € – Students, unemployed, people with legally recognized disabilities, large family or single-parent family cardholders, individuals under 30 or over 65, and holders of the public library network card.

PRICE

Pre-registration form

The registration process is divided into 2 steps:

To apply for registration, you must fill out the form and send an email to santamonica@gencat.cat attaching your curriculum vitae (one page maximum) and a letter of motivation (one page maximum) in a single PDF document.
Once the pre-registration period is over, all pre-registered individuals will receive an email informing them whether they have been accepted, not accepted, or placed on the waiting list. Those who have been admitted must pay the reservation fee and provide the necessary accreditation for the discount.

First registration period:

Pre-registration: until May 10th, 2023
Confirmation of enrollment: May 17th, 2023

HOW TO REGISTER

For any questions or further information, you can write to santamonica@gencat.cat

(creating)Situations: participatory art and thinking

The artist is conceived less as an individual producer of concrete objects than as a collaborator and producer of situations; the work of art, as a finite, portable, marketable product, is reconceived as a continuous or long-term project with uncertain beginnings and endings, while the audience, previously conceived as "the observer" or "the spectator," is now repositioned as a producer or participant.

Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

Every four months, the center of arts Santa Mònica develops an exhibition cycle through collective creation processes. These processes are driven by a close and radical curatorial practice, understood as a form of accompaniment and attention. Through this exercise of institutional de-hierarchization, the new Santa Mònica embraces methodologies that foster diverse situations of horizontal participation.

In this same vein, (creating) Situations offers a context of collective learning and research that analyzes exhibition cycles and their creation processes from within, while also generating new situations to approach. It is a tool designed to understand and imbue these methodologies from their core.

With this program, Santa Mònica opens its doors to people interested in curating as a practice of attention and care, as well as in these exhibition processes. The focus is thus on modes of joint and situated co-creation among curators, artists, and context, and aims to interpret and reactivate diverse situations within the exhibition device.

The title (creating) Situations is inspired by Claire Bishop's contributions on the displacement of the hegemony of artistic objectivity, which relocate the spectatorship in an active role and nuance the relational logics that Nicolas Bourriaud diagnosed in the 90s. Thus, the participatory and collective nature not only imbues each of Santa Mònica's exhibition cycles but also aims to be a vehicle for this program, with the goal of activating artistic thought and research from collectivity, with a processual vocation and a connection to the territory. That is why the program also seeks to overflow Santa Mònica by establishing connections with other cultural proposals in the city of Barcelona.