/ecm diskurs 72: Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga Event

/ecm diskurs 72: ASSEMBLING MODES OF SPEAKING / DOING / LOOKING ON JARGONS & CIVIC POETRY

Lecture: Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga curator, researcher, and educator. Director KADIST Paris
Moderation: Nora Sternfeld Professor of Art Education, HFBK Hamburg, /ecm Directors’s team

If we understand art to be a language, an official language, this lecture is interested in discussing different practices that could be akin to jargon, in the way these are always standing in a productive tension towards an established idiomatic norm.

More concretely, from the different linguistic practices that populate the field of cultural production, I would like to focus on civic poetry, as both a practice and a position aiming to expand and complexify the artistic engagement with the social, and the performativity of what we could call bastard linguistic practices: practices which intrinsically bear a relationship of contamination and counter-filiation, of dilatation and derivation, of threat and creation. What emerges here is the following proposition: if ways of speaking are intricately and inescapably tied to ways of doing and ways of looking, could what circulates between and through this triangulation be an arena where to assemble, probe, and rehearse possible contexts of enunciation?

The lecture will particularly examine and ruminate those questions through the case studies of two recent projects I have convened: A Convening of Civic Poets (October 5, 2023 – February 4, 2024) and Bastardie (June 6 – 30, 2024), both presented at KADIST Paris.

Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga is a curator, researcher, and educator. She is Director of the Paris branch of KADIST and lecturer at Leiden University, where she coordinates the minor Social and Ecological Justice Activism in the Visual Arts. Her projects are articulated in long-term curatorial investigations such as Canibalia, Be careful with each other, so we can be dangerous together, Social Choreographies, Night Studies, or The Hauntologists. Previous positions include the convening of the Post-Academic Program and member of the executive board of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht; the convening of escuelita at CA2M-Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles; curating the Opening section at ARCO Madrid; or mediating public driven commissions as part of Concomitentes. Her work has been showcased internationally under multiple formats at Hangar (Lisboa), CentroCentro and Matadero (Madrid), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), MACBA (Barcelona), La Panera (Lleida), Savvy (Berlin), Kyiv Biennial, Kunstcenter Bergen, Jeu de Paume (Paris), or 9th Shanghai Biennale, amongst others. Morandeira was a tutor at the Dutch Art Institute master program (2019-2023), and has furthered lectured at numerous places such as De Appel Curatorial Program (Amsterdam), Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), University of the Basque Country-EHU (Bilbao), Goldsmiths College (London), Notre Dame University (Indiana, USA), SomethingYouShouldKnow seminar (Paris), Nottingham Contemporary, Serpentine Gallery (London), Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastián) or TEOR/Ética (San José, Costa Rica).

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