On Artistic and Curatorial Authorship
<p>This issue of <em>ONCURATING.org</em> brings together a range of interviews and essays, inspired by the symposium, “Why Artists Curate,” held by the Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with Columbus Art Foundation in July 2011. The feedback from this conference prompted a discussion on authorship in contemporary art, from artists, curators and artist-curators.</p> <p>Walter Benjamin’s well known essay, <em>The Author as Producer</em>, outlines that artists became producers when they shifted their labour from an independent creator relent on conventional artistic apparatus, to an operative, in which the skills and accomplishments of the artists are transformed by the advanced technical content of new reproductive technologies’ place in art. This represents the very re-functioning of the relations of artistic production in the interest of the new definition of the artist. Therefore the artist is not bound by a closed relationship with material, or their own encounters with the world in the conventions of artistic tradition…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall, Silvia Simoncelli
Editors: Michael Birchall
Contributors: Fucking Good Art, Ute Meta Bauer, Michael Birchall, Tania Bruguera, Raqs Media Collective, Yvonne P. Doderer, Mary Jane Jacob, Marc James Léger, Kristina Lee Podesva, Dorothee Richter, Valerie Smith, Winfried Stürzl, Marion von Osten, Gavin Wade, Artur Zmijewski
Interviewer: Michael Birchall, Nkule Mabaso, Charlotte Barnes, Annemarie Brand, Monika Molnár, John Canciani, Jacqueline Falk, Sheena Greene, Anne Koskiluoma, Anna Krystyna Trzaska, Chloé Nicolet-Dit-Félix, Gülru Vardar, Ashraf Osman, Daniela N. Fuentes, Sophia Ribeiro, Tanja Trampe
Translators: Lucinda Rennison, Mark Kyburz
Editorial Assistant: Nkule Mabaso
Proofreader: Nkule Mabaso
Designer: Biotop 3000, Ronald Kolb, Volker Schartner
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904