Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin: „CURATING: Glittering Myth, Social Symptom, Revolutionary Force?..."

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin im Rahmen von „CURATING: Glittering Myth, Social Symptom, Revolutionary Force? A Conference on Curatorial Knowledge Production“
What is the Subject and Discourse of Curating?
The fetish of „having an eye“, the routines and rituals of institutional power, the midwife function towards the artist, the position of the „subject supposed to know“, the mediator or producer of scientific knowledge, the master signifier that holds together an undefinable field, the representative of communal institutional purpose: the curator or the practice of curating is the focal point of various, often contradictory and equally as often vaguely defined expectations and qualifications. Despite the efforts –  for example by introducing Curating Ph.D programs into the academic field – to counter this state of affairs with a more rigorous approach, the current of these force fields determining the practice persist. Within a larger attempt to think through what a Clinic of the Present would entail (within cultural practices such as curating and research fields such as cultural studies) I will look at the curating position as a subject position. What is the subject and discourse of curating? What is its product, what its object, what its truth? My starting point will be the idea that the „Discourse of the Analyst“ as it was developed by Jacques Lacan offers an insight into both the process and the object of production within curatorial practice.
Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin lehrt als Kunstvermittlung und Ästhetik an der Kunstakademie Stuttgart.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.