[spectre] EAF info: "Socially Disorganised" Curated by Vasif Kortun

[EAF Director]

The Experimental Art Foundation, in association with the BigPond  
Adelaide Film Festival 09, is pleased to present
Socially Disorganised

Curated by Vasif Kortun 

Halil Altindere . Yu Cheng-ta . Jordi Colomer . Daniel Guzman . Minouk  
Lim . Ahmet Ögüt . Wael Shawky . Kuang-Yu Tsui . Nasan Tur . Matthias  
Wermke

Opening 6pm Wednesday 18 Feb 2009
19 February – 21 March 2009


’Social disorganization’ means a particular set of conditions that make  
it easier for crime to take hold in urban contexts. The works in this  
exhibition ‘act out’ a kind of delinquency. — Vasif Kortun

Frequently funny and frequently situationist in character, *Socially  
Disorganised* presents video which documents performative art – often  
live acts of minor civil disobedience. Many of the works happen in  
versions, over time, whilst all of them could be said to activate the  
city in absurd and novel ways. The curator has selected works from ten  
prolific artists — rarely, if ever, seen before in Australia —  
specifically for this exhibition at the EAF.

Kortun will also meet with artists and curators in Sydney in a visit  
organised by Artspace, and Casula Powerhouse.


Workshop – Total Curating 
16 – 20 February
In conjunction with *Socially Disorganised* the curator, Vasif Kortun,  
will lead a workshop for local and international participants. *Total  
Curating* will focus on  the role of the curator in the international  
art system through seminars, a hands-on-workshop, presentations by  
participants, and other events. 

Participating are: Charity Bramwell independent curator (Melbourne);  
Lucy Guster Visual Arts Manager, Adelaide Festival of Arts 2008, 2010  
(Adelaide); Erin Keys independent curator & jeweller (Adelaide); Brigid  
Noone independent curator & painter (Adelaide); Melanie Oliver  
Assistant Curator, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth N.Z);  
Karen Paris independent curator & video/installation artist (Adelaide);  
Elspeth Pitt Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Art  
Gallery South Australia (Adelaide); Dr Melinda Rackham Executive  
Director Australian Network for Art & Technology (Adelaide); Bree  
Richards Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland  
Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane); Daine Singer independent  
curator & art consultant (Melbourne); Mercedes Vicente Curator,  
Contemporary Art, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth N.Z); Keg  
de Souza & Zanny Begg independent curators & artists (Sydney); Robert  
Wuilfe Founding Curator, Landmarks Contemporary Projects, Philadelphia  
Society for the Preservation of Landmarks (Philadelphia, U.S).


Bio
Vasif Kortun is the founding director of Platform Garanti [2001-] a  
non-profit contemporary art institution with an extensive library,  
documentation centre, artist archives, exhibition space and an  
international residency program for artists, critics and curators.  
Kortun was also the planner and founding director of Proje4L, Istanbul  
Museum of Contemporary Art between 2001-2003, where he curated seminal  
exhibitions of artists from Turkey. As the first director of the Museum  
of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College [1994 and 1997],  
he organized the first U.S. museum exhibitions of artists like Kara  
Walker, Nedko Solakov and Boris Mikhailov. Vasif Kortun was the chief  
curator of the 1992, and co-curator of the 2005 Istanbul Biennials; a  
co-curator of the Sao Paolo [1998], the Tirana [2003], the Ceramics  
[Albisola, 2003], and the Taipei Biennials [2008]. He has curated the  
Turkish pavilions for the 1994 and 1998 Sao Paolo, and the 2005 Venice  
Biennials. His texts have appeared in many different books, magazines  
and exhibition catalogues. 


Further >  http://eaf.asn.au/2009/sociallydis.html

The exhibition *Socially Disorganised* is presented by the EAF in  
association with the 2009 Big Pond Adelaide Film Festival. This project  
has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia  
Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.



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