Work the Work sought to collectively investigate the critical juncture of curatorial practices and research-creation practices. To curate research-creation, we believe, is to open up the process of curation itself to the anarchic share of the event in its unfolding, the radical potential which activates the differential in emergent processes. Research-creation asks of the curatorial: What is the curatorial without hierarchy? Do the ‘sides’ of artist and curator, in the practice of exhibition making, begin to blur?
The two-day gathering brought together curators, artists, researchers, students and the general public in a series of dynamic presentations, questionings, and conversations, where a multiplicity of processes and methodologies were put forward and explored.
Participants included:
Erin Manning (Concordia University), Shauna Janssen (Concordia University), Monika Gagnon (Concordia University), Kim Simon (Gallery TPW), Tamara Vukov (Université de Montréal), Corinn Gerber (Passenger Books), Marc Weiser (Montreal Symphonic Orchestra), Nik Forrest (Concordia University), Tricia Toso (Concordia University), Faye Mullen (Concordia University), Cynthia Noury (UQAM), Agathe François (Université de Montréal), Hilary Bergen (Concordia University), and the CRCC (Treva Michelle Legassie, Renata Azevedo Moreira, Matthew-Robin Nye, and Karen Wong).
