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Curator-In-Action @ The Mobility Project, Coventry, UK, 2012

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Saturday, 21 January 2012 14:00 until 17:00 - - - - - - The Meter Room, 58-64 Corporation Street, Coventry, United Kingdom - - - - - - - Panel Discussion as part of Clarke Gallery exhibition The Mobility Project - - - - - - http://www.clarkegallery.de/current/panel-discussion-at-the-mobility-project/ - - - - - - An afternoon consisting of a performance, presentations, talks & discussions takes place with all exhibiting artists of The Mobility Project – and Alfredo Cramerotti as ‘Curator-in-Action.’ - - - - - - - Artists of The Mobility Project are Simon Clark, Elly Clarke, Enda O’Donoghue, Kerstin Honeit, Rebecca Pittam, plan b/Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers, Fedora Romita and Kym Ward. - - - - - - - Line up: 1. Brief Intro by Elly Clarke - - 2. “Meta-meat-mobility” – 30 minute performance by Kym Ward. This performance is about the relationship of the body to an idea of mobility, the limitations of the body / personality under the demands of intellectual labour. - - 3. Artist-led tour of the exhibition - - 4. “Serendipity” by Enda O’Donoghue – in relation it to Google and the Serendipity Engine, connections and chance both online and off - - 5. “Mobilising Loss” 15-20 min presentation by Simon Clark. Discussion of the artist’s postcard project in relation to the rest of his practice and the space of imagination. Via Walter Benjamin, Holbein’s Dead Christ and Simon Clark’s song/video I go to church to count the pews. - - 6. Janneke Adema: ‘Reflections on open and mobile art. A Round Table Report’ - - 7. plan b will talk about their practice of recording everywhere they go with a GPS and delve through some of their data to show what rubbings they are making of cities and how their tiny scribbles on earth have come to be the drawing of their lives. - - 8. Elly Clarke – short discussion of Clarke Gallery and mobile exhibitions, leading to open discussion. - - We are very grateful to Arts Council England, Coventry Council Small Arts Grants and Culture Ireland for supporting this project. Link to Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/225204030888935 - - Meter Room: http://www.meterroom.org/ - - Artist links may be found here: http://www.clarkegallery.de/index.php?%2Ffriends–associates%2F - - Curator-in-action links here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alfredo-Cramerotti/276793275676146 & http://www.alcramer.net

“Species of Space 2″ Curatorial Seminar at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland, 2011

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In partnership with LCGA and eva International, Six Memos organised the curatorial seminar, Species of Space 2 and Fugitive Dialogues. This two-day event marks the return of LCGA and eva International to the newly redeveloped Carnegie Building and the launch of Ormston House on Patrick Street under the Creative Limerick initiative. - - - - - - - Species of Space 2 took place at the Carnegie Building with a panel of distinguished curators presenting case studies on their experiences of negotiating space: Katerina Gregos on The Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale – Challenging curatorial orthodoxy in the Biennial Context; Alfredo Cramerotti On Translating, Expanding, Compressing and Misusing Space; Vaari Claffey on Gracelands – Substance Abuse; Simon Rees on EAST by SOUTHWEST; And Annie Fletcher on Be(com)ing Dutch. - - - - - - The following day, Fugitive Dialogues took place at Ormston House with James Merrigan and Michaële Cutaya from 12-2pm. Fugitive Papers/Dialogues is an artistic research project to explore ideas about art, writing, criticality and public(s) in Ireland at this time. Discussion was followed by afternoon tea with the artists of the current exhibition, Monkey Wrench, at Ormston House: Sonia Shiel, Kevin Cosgrove and Keef Winter. - - - - - - - The seminar is organised and facilitated by Mary Conlon (Shinnors Scholar, LCGA, 2009-2011; Curator of the Six Memos project; Director of Ormston House; Member of the Board of Directors of eva International; PhD candidate at Limerick School of Art and Design).

Memory / Sound / Image: Symposium, 2011

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Modern Art Oxford presents Memory / Sound / Image: Half-Day Symposium. - - - - - Artist Shona Illingworth was joined by cognitive neuro-psychologist Professor Martin A. Conway, a leading expert on human memory, writer and curator Caterina Albano, curator Paul Luckraft, and writer, curator and artist Alfredo Cramerotti for an afternoon of screenings and discussions at Modern Art Oxford that explore notions of memory in relation to scientific insight and the politics of location and conflict. This half-day symposium, Memory / Sound / Image, has been organised by the Gallery to complement the current exhibition Kerry Tribe: Dead Star Light, which explores themes of memory, ambiguity and doubt. - - - - - - - Topics of discussion included how geopolitical strategies of control and the evolving legacies of conflict intersect with deeper processes of memory and emotion that form our perception and construction of the world, and how these new scientific discoveries and insights can inform and inspire work in this area by artists working with moving image and sound. - - - - - Image courtesy Shona Illingworth

Private Investigations: talk and book presentation, 2011

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Private Investigations: talk and book presentation in Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, 8th November 2011 & in SECESSION, Vienna, 9th November 2011. - - - - - - Private Investigations – Paths of Critical Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art, a book edited by Andrei Siclodi, with contributions by Alfredo Cramerotti, Judith Fischer, Geoffrey Garrison, Alison Gerber, Ana Hoffner, Brigitta Kuster, Ralo Mayer, Andrei Siclodi, Alexander Vaindorf as well as conversations between Laura Horelli and Geoffrey Garrison, Nina Möntmann and Alexander Vaindorf, Andrei Siclodi and Ralo Mayer. - - - - - - - The book is a compilation of texts and image-based contributions by former Büchsenhausen Fellows, addressing their own research-based art practice and discussing the same in contributions specifically created for this publication. The focus of the book is on artistic strategies which attempt to infiltrate the hegemonic discourses of knowledge, which are currently emerging also in the art context, while at the same time proposing own ways of appropriating and processing knowledge. Private Investigations includes contributions by Alfredo CRAMEROTTI, Judith FISCHER, Geoffrey GARRISON, Alison GERBER, Ana HOFFNER, Brigitta KUSTER, Ralo MAYER, Andrei SICLODI and Alexander VAINDORF. - - - - - - Private Investigations Alfredo CRAMEROTTI, Andrei SICLODI, and others: Book launch and discussion Tue 08.11.2011, 19.00, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck - - - - - - Information & Desire Alfredo CRAMEROTTI, Ana HOFFNER, Andrei SICLODI, and others: Book launch and discussion Wed 09.11.2011, 19.00, SECESSION VIENNA

Occupy Curating? Politics, Protests and the Future of Curatorial Practice, 2011

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The talk ‘Occupy Curating? Politics, Protests and the Future of Curatorial Practice’ asked the question whether curatorial content can be artist generated, or even viewer-generated, in the same way that democracy could be generated by the creative individuals, or just regular individuals, who happen to live in it. - - - - - - Jeffrey Swartz (Art Critic) chaired a panel discussion with Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, Mostyn), Jose Falconi (Curator, Latin American Art Forum), Oxana Maleeva (Curator, Art Apart), William Morrow (Director, 21C Museum), Kathy Noble (Curator, Tate Modern), Steve Picolo (Artist)


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