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In her writing and lectures on curating, Härtelova works around the concepts that define her idea of cūrator (from the Latin root cūro, cūrare which mean to care for) -an intersectional curatorial methodology built on the practices of "fundamental care", such as "empathy", "response-ability", "becoming-with", and "rendering capable". Building on feminist thought and institutional critique, it is an attempt to imagine and build alternative, fluid, responsive spaces = structures of relating.

Find more writing on Academia.

Towards "Abolitionist" Art Organizing

A workshop for artists, art organizers, curators, museum workers, art administrators, project coordinators, and everybody else who works in the Art World. In the session we investigate together what wishes hide beneath our involvement in art institutions and what we would wish for if we didn’t have to wish for survival. Through this investigation, we brush against the ideologies fundational to art that enforce isolation, hoarding of power, make us feel stupid, set us up in chains of exploitation, racism, colonial extractivism, and much more. Then, we slowly make our way into a world where Art-as-we-know-it (this very specific idea originating in the 18th century) doesn’t exist. What would are institutions do if they wouldn’t have to do art? Who else would we be in contact with?

This workshop uses anarchist abolitionist practices to help us check in if what we do is what we would really like to be doing, it encourages us to be brave to destroy the things that might not be working so we could build what we wish for.

This workshop was developed first as part of the Cultivating Utopias session curated by Petr Dlouhý and co-facilitated by Joanna Klass, Wojtek S, Matyáš Grimmich, and M. J. Härtelova for Europe TransHalle conference 2022. [To read a zine collectively made by the participants of the workshop, see here.]

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Accessibility Note Symposium

For whom are gallery spaces made and who isn't account for? Do we have the imagination to formulate a "different" institution?

Accessibility Note Symposium
April 26th, 2019
a day-long symposium
at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague auditorium

Key Note lecture by The White Pube (Zarina Muhammad &Gabrielle de la Puente) (UK)

Organized by curator Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova as part of GAVU (Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts) 2018/19 programming

Program:
11:00 Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova: Accessibility Note
11:15 The White Pube: key note lecture
12:15 Ella S-W &Patrick Monte: Space Utopias (performative Skype lecture)
12:45 Harley Aussoleil (COVEN BERLIN), Frances Walker (Sickness Affinity Group), Hana Janeckova (Multilogues on the Now): Methodologies &Practices of Radical Inclusion (panel discussion)

15:00 Tamara Moyzes (Romane Kale Pantera, Artivist Lab), Zuzana Jakalová (tranzit) , Darina Alster (Mothers Artlovers), David Brna (Barvolam): Institutions and Accessibility, an Idea (panel discussion)

Photo: Radek Detinsky/AVU, Klara Jarolimkova
16:15 Klára Čmolíková Cozlová: Gender Audit (workshop tutorial)

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Kurátorství s radikální empatií

[Curating with Radical Empathy]

a lecture on Härtelova’s methodologies of curating, in Czech

O bílých zdech, sociálně angažovaném umění, feminismus a úspěšné výstavě.

November 25th, 2019

Ateliér sochařství Dominika Langa a Edith Jeřábkové, Vysoká škola umělecko-průmyslová v Praze

[Sculpture studio of Dominik Lang and Edith Jeřábkova, Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague]


April 23, 2019

Ateliér nových médií II Kateřiny Olivové a Dariny Alster, Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze

[New Media II Studio of Katerina Olivova and Darina Alster at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague]

Anotace:

Termín kurátor pochází z latinského curare - pečovat, starat se. Jak a o co ale pečovat v profesi, která neustále balancuje mezi agendami instituce, diváka, umělce, uměleckého díla? Jak určit etiku prezentace uměleckých děl, za co jsme zodpovědní, když umisťujeme díla do prostoru?
V přednášce Kurátorství s radikální empatií představí Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, současná kurátorka GAVU, teorii kurátorské péče jako celostní praxe. Probere některé ideologie, které definují současný výstavní prostor a umělecké instituce. Na příkladech bílých zdí, zastoupení umělců, výšky instalace obrazů, alokace rozpočtů, hierarchie instituce a dalších poukáže na více či méně viditelné systémy, které záměrného vylučování a nepřístupnosti. Na rozdílech mezi sympatií a empatií, zviditelňováním a uschopňováním, na teoriích "vycházení" či "škodlivé podpory" Härtelová demonstruje své metodiky kurátorství čerpající z postkoloniální teorie, intersekcionálního a spekulativního feminismu. Jako závěr pak zvažuje, jak by ve světle těchto teorií vypadala výstava považovaná za úspěšnou.
V rámci přednášky Härtelova také představí sérii výstav Poznámka k přístupnosti, která probíhala v GAVU v tomto uplynulém roce.
Přednáška Härtelové se neustále pohybuje mezi teorií a konkrétními příklady z praxe. Vyzývá všechny zúčastněné, aby nebraly nic jako dané a získaly zpět svoji představivost přiškrcenou normativními systémy. Kurátorství s radikální empatií nabízí jasné odpovědi, ale nezjednodušitelná řešení. Znalost teorie není nutná, vůle přemýšlet kriticky a vystoupit sám ze sebe je.
Po přednášce bude následovat diskuze, včetně otevřené debaty o proběhlé sérii Poznámka k přístupnosti.

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Labor of Love: To Curate Is To Care (Panel)

A panel talk, titled Labor of Love: To Curate Is To Care, held together with Taraneh Fazeli, on care and curating at the Why Care? Symposium at the Institute for Critical Inquiry Berlin, July 6th, 2018

The panel touched on the premise of care in the position of curator and how it is perceived/used in contemporary curatorial discourse, the myth of autonomy, how the gallery space is constituted through specific ideologies alongside theories on dependency and access. In its second part, Härtelova introduced her theory on strategies of rendering capable vs. rendering visible illustrated in the context of her Navajo Mountain School Project and Fazeli presented her Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying project as it connects to ideas of planning vs. policy.

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Curating and the Concept of Intersectional Care

Master of Curatorial Practice thesis

Introduction and Bibliography available to read here

For any further questions, please, don’t hesitate to contact me

 

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Care ~ Curating (lecture)

A lecture given at the Curatorial Practice Program Symposium at California College of the Arts, San Francisco in April 2017

The lecture introduced my research into the discourse of care and curating as it manifests in an original theory of "curating with fundamental care", developed in feminist thought. At the beginning, I traced the split between discourse on the etymological origin of the word curator in Latin word for care and the repeated instances of lack of care and awareness on the side of mainstream art institutions. Subsequently, the lecture focused on four terms describing practices related to the practice of fundamental care. In the talk's conclusion, I demonstrate how these practices can manifest in curatorial practice, illustrated on the example of curator-mother.

The lecture was followed by a discussion moderated by Julian Myers-Szupinska

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The Room as a Space

A manifesto written with Ella Schoefer-Wulf for The Room gallery program.

(California College of the Arts: San Francisco, 2016)

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