Curating Public Urban Space seminar
Yael Moria-Klain & Sigal Barnir
This seminar addresses curatorial acts as means of intervention in public space. We will examine the potential of caring and curing intrinsic to the term "curating", as well as the artistic, exhibitionistic aspect of curatorial practice.
The first section of the seminar will spotlight possible modes of intervention in open urban space. This portion asks whether exhibitions affect the way urban space is experienced, and whether temporary interventions may impact and even alter it. The seminar will investigate the fundamental relationship between architecture and power, as well as the one between hosting and invasion, and will address the influence of curatorial acts on these relationships.
In the seminar's second portion we will hold a practical workshop focused on creative intervention in public urban spaces by different entities (artists, architects, residents, other interested parties and even municipal bodies). Seminar participants will be invited to observe and investigate from afar the city of Bat-Yam, Israel. The practice will lead towards potentially actualizing an architectural/curatorial project for the 2nd International Landscape Urbanism Bat-Yam Biennale, which will take place in 2010.