How do the artists give shape to their role as co-curators? How do they relate to a supervisor/curator for content? In the time leading up to this kind of group exhibition, collectives with curators and various artists lend colour and details. These collectives and how they evolved were an inspiration to Van Woensel; it is what he will be talking about this afternoon.
Jan Van Woensel lives and works in New York, San Fransisco and Los Angeles is an independent curator and critic and works with mid-career artists and musicians from the USA and Europe. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory.
The Session is a collective of eight international designers and artists, all graduates of the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam that makes a thematic, interdisciplinary fanzine since September '07. The Session does not work with a standard form or a recurrent basic theme, but produces on the basis of a regular process. Per session, one of the eight artists and designers determine the theme. This time Jan Van Woensel fulfils this role.
Read more about this lecture and exhibition at www.brakkegrond.nl