Conference: SITUATED KNOWLEDGES – Art and Curating on the Move
- A hybrid parallel conference and workshop event of Shared Campus at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (on-site) and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (online)
- Led by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter (ZHdK), Dr. Cedric Maridet (HKBU), organisation: Ronald Kolb (ZHdK)
We are delighted to co-host the conference, Situated Knowledges – Art & curating on the move, together with ZHDK, and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. The conference includes both online lectures and workshops, and offline contributions from Hong Kong.
A central question for the conference is globalisation, which is not limited to expanding production, consumption, and communication, but also in relation to cultural identities, as well as new experiences of difference of belonging. Therefore, in redefining the theme of globalization this allows for the cultural coordinates of the present to produce new perspectives on histories, genealogies, as well as new designs on future visions. This debate is well placed in contemporary art, and throughout the conference this will be explored through situated knowledges.
The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway is a central topic in her concept of feminist objectivity. In her essay "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988), Haraway assumes that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional. For this reason, the concept of Situated Knowledge incorporates the social location and contextual advantages of the researcher into the research process.
Against an assumption of an apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through overview visualization techniques, Haraway develops her concept of embodied knowledges by drawing on a description of the eye and "vision" (in the broad real and metaphorical sense). There is no such thing as unconditional observation, she argues, because every "acquisition of knowledge" takes place in a dynamic "apparatus of bodily production".
With this in mind the conference invites artists, curators, educators, and scholars from the Shared Campus partners and beyond to engage in this programme of public talks and discussions as well as participatory Zoom workshops.
- Full conference programme und registration
- Public talks, discussions:
25–27 June 2021, 10:00am–12:30pm - Workshops:
25–27 June 2021, 1:00–4:00pm
Registration open from 5th June 2021. Registration deadline 15th June 2021.
Please be aware that there is a maximum number of participants. We will inform you directly after the registration. If you are unable to attend after all, let us know as soon as possible, so that others can join the workshop. You can find the registration links with the detailed workshop descriptions.