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MANIFESTA 8 | Collective Curating: Means in Common, 2010
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MANIFESTA 8 | Collective Curating: Means in Common
Participants:
Alfredo Cramerotti, Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), Denmark, Italy, Lebanon, Member of the M8 Curatorial Collective
Esther Regueira, General Coordinator, Manifesta 8, Murcia
Georg Schöllhammer, Member of the collective tranzit.org, Central Europe
Enjoy Poverty: Screening and Conversation with Alfredo Cramerotti and Renzo Martens, 2010
Nottingham Contemporary's screening and talk about Renzo Marten’s performance-cum-documentary, a challenging experience for the viewer. Shot in the Congo, it suggests that local photographers would be better off selling pictures of suffering to Western news agencies, rather than continuing their humble portrait studios. “Martens is keen to expose the relation of power between those who watch and those who are being watched,” stated the curator Alfredo Cramerotti, author of Aesthetic Journalism. Cramerotti will discuss this provocative film with Martens after the screening. Both will take questions from the audience.
Aesthetic Journalism, photography and information strategies, 2010
talk, presentation, screening
Talk at the New York International Photo Festival on the concept of 'Aesthetic Journalism' and its practical application/related issues in the world of professional photography and photo reporters.
Image courtesy of Michael Wolf (who was before me in the lineup of presentations and with whom I shared an interesting chat afterwards)
Critical Photography: The Blind, 2010
talk, presentation, screening
Talk at the New York INternational Photo Festival on the second publication of Critical Photography book series: 'The Blind', edited by Alfredo Cramerotti with images by Renhui Zhao and text by Hyacinth Messam, contribution by ICZ Institute of Critical Zoologists:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4717/
Evidence and Imagination: the urgency of geopolitics and the necessity of geopoetics, 2010
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Talk for The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Contest of Globalisation Conference 08 May 2010 at Nottingham Contemporary.
What are the reference points for contemporary art in a global economy that creates enormous wealth as well as widening inequality. Our opening conference explores the many strategies artists use to reveal the processes and human consequences of the globalised market economy. Introduced by the exhibition’s co-curator T.J. Demos – writer, curator and lecturer at University College, London – the conference includes artists George Osodi, Ursula Biemann, Dario Azzellini, Oliver Ressler and Bureau d’Études. - - - - - -
Other speakers include Alfredo Cramerotti, author of Aesthetic Journalism and co-curator of the next Manifesta exhibition; Angus Cameron, the official “emissary” of artists Goldin+Senneby and a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester; Janna Graham, artist and curator; The University of Nottingham’s Alex Vasudevan and Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism; Is There No Alterative? Together they will examine the challenges of representing globalisation, and what’s at stake when artists engage with geopolitical issues. - - - - - -
Over the past five years Alfredo Cramerotti has written about the aesthetic merger of contemporary art and the news media. By adopting the ubiquitous tropes of interviews, graphic mapping, and Magnum style photography an increasing number of artists have borrowed from these visual languages to present their work into a context closely aligned with investigative journalism. Drawing from his recent book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009, Intellect) and select works from Uneven Geographies, Cramerotti will be speaking about the growing overlap between global news media and contemporary art. By addressing this topic Cramerotti will seek to answer a number of questions including: Does such an integration of art and journalism emancipate art from a closed sphere of discourse allowing it a more social and political dimension? Does the use of an investigative methodology within contemporary art practice shift an understanding of truth and subjectivity? By borrowing from forms of news media, what new modes of exhibition practice are artists, curators, and writers enabling to develop cultural relationships between the global relevance to local issues?
audio file of talk available at
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/sites/default/files/Alfredo_Cramerotti.mp3
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Image Bruno Serralongue, Condemn World Bank, WSF Mumbai 2004. 40cm x 50cm. Courtesy of the artist and Air de Paris.