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Call for Applications: The 3rd Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course
August 8–September 3, 2011

Application deadline: May 17, 2011

www.gb.or.kr

▪ Sponsored by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation & the Metropolitan City of Gwangju

▪ Chaired by Yongwoo Lee (Executive Vice President, Gwangju Biennale)

▪ Directed by Co-Directors, 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale (Ai Weiwei, Seung H-sang)

Co-Artistic Directors, 2012 Gwangju Biennale (Nancy Adajania, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim, Carol Yinghua Lu)

▪ Visiting Professor: Ute Meta Bauer (Associate Professor & Director of Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning)

The Gwangju Biennale hosts its third edition of International Curator Course. The course, which has attracted much attention from young curators across the globe since its inception in 2009, takes place in parallel with the Gwangju Biennale and the Gwangju Design Biennale.

The visiting professor for this year's course will be Ute Meta Bauer, an internationally acclaimed curator and professor at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. She was co-curator of Documenta11 (2002), artistic director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), and founding director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (2002–2005.) Her exhibitions include Architectures of Discourse at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (2001), First Story - Women Building / New Narratives for 21 Century, a main exhibition for the European Cultural Capital Porto 2001 and the Mobile_Transborder Archive for InSite05, Tijuana /San Diego. Most recently she served as the director of SITAC VI What's left…What remains? SITAC VI (Mexico City 2008.) The first visiting professor was Barbara Vanderlinden, founder and artistic director of the Brussels Biennial, followed by Dan Cameron, artistic director of Prospect New Orleans Biennial.

This year, the course will include practice in preparation of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale which will start on September 2. The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market-led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

The course consists of special lectures by visiting professor Bauer along with discussions and practices under the guidance of artistic directors and curators of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale as well as 2012 Gwangju Biennale. Co-Directors of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, Co-Artistic Directors of 2012 Gwangju Biennale, Prof. Maurizio Bortolotti of NABA, Milan, and Nader Tehrani, architect and Head of Department of Architecture at MIT who participates in 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale will join the lectures and seminars.

The course will be delivered in English. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the process of installation and preparation for the biennale as assistants of artistic directors and curators. They will make group presentations in the final week before guests including biennale participating artists and curators. Visits to museums, galleries, and artists' studios in Gwangju and Seoul are also scheduled.

The Gwangju Biennale will grant tuition and accommodation to participants during the entire course in Gwangju. Participants will be responsible for their roundtrip airfares to Gwangju and living expenses during their stay in Gwangju. Since the course aims to give young curators opportunities to receive in-depth training, an age restriction has been set at 35 and under.

The application must include:

1. Application form (download from www.gb.or.kr)
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Motivational statement illustrating the applicant's interests and explaining the reason for application (1,000 words max.)
4. A copy of the most relevant published texts and reports of realized curatorial projects

Send your application by email: curatorcourse (at) gb.or.kr

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Gyeonggi Creation Center supports creative work and research for domestic and foreign artists and curators through an art residency alongside a wide range of programs and facilities. GCC acts as a platform to gather artists and curators from all over the world for international exchange and as an experimental and progressive contemporary art center to collectively engage and cultivate synergy among artists of various genres.

For the 2011 Residency Studio Program, GCC will accept applications from artists and curators working in visual and media arts.

Eligibility

- Domestic and foreign artists in visual and media arts, curators
- No limitation of age, nationality, or gender
- Artists who will be able to participate during their own residency session

Session: March 2011 – February 2012

- Long term residency: 1 year (Domestic and foreign artists)- 8 artists, curators
- Short term residency: 3, 6 months- 2010.03-05/06-08/09-11/12-2012.02 (Select 1 period).Applicants for Local Collaboration Program should apply June to August session. Check the details from our website. 30-40 artists, curators

Program 2: Research Residency Program: Independent and alternative space curators
Application Requirements

- Independent and alternative space curators
- Curators who are able to participate during their own residency session
- No limitation of age, nationality, or gender
- Individual Curator, team collaboration both available.

GCC Provides

- Private Studio and Living quarters (Foreign curators)
- Stipend (500,000/month) for living expenses (Domestic/Foreign curators)
- Airfare for foreign residents
- Research residents get supported with prescribed amount of exhibition and publication
- Further information will be discussed after final selection with curatorial team.

Materials for application

- Application form (Download)
- CV or resumé
- A project description of intended activity during the residency
- Portfolio/Work samples (CD/DVD) : maximum 20 images or 5 minutes of video (*.jpg, *.ppt, avi, .mov, *wmv)
- Copy of passport or I.D Certificate
- All materials for application will not be returned.

Note: GCC allows a partner of residents by discussion before registration. GCC does not allow pets and children.

Application Procedure

- Please download the Application form and send your application to our email first. Send 1 copy of your application with additional materials to GCC by following the guidelines noted in the Application Outline.
- Submission Period: November 15 – December 17, 2010
- Application can be delivered directly or post to, Gyeonggi Creation Center, 400-3 Seongam-dong, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do (425-310) Korea
- Applications must be postmarked by December 17, 2010

Selection Procedure

- All applications will be evaluated by the selection committee comprising of art professionals.
- Pre-selection by paper screening / Main selection by interview
- For foreign applicants interview is optional.

Notification

January 15, 2011 (Notification date to be determined). The selected list will be posted at the website of Gyeonggi Creation Center: www.gyeonggicreationcenter.org

Contact

Phone: 82.32.890.4820/4825
Email: gcc.infomail -at- gmail.com
Address: Gyeonggi Creation Center
400-3 Seongam-dong, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do
(425-310) Korea

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Gwangju Biennale - International Curator Course
August 24 - September 20, 2009

Dead line for application: May 15, 2009
Sponsored by The Gwangju Biennale Foundation, The Metropolitan City of Gwangju
Chaired by Yongwoo Lee
Directed by Byungsoo Eun (Artistic Director, 2009 Gwangju Design Biennale) Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, 2010 Gwangju Biennale)
Visiting Professor: Barbara Vanderlinden

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation sponsors the first edition of International Curator Course in Gwangju from August 24 to September 20, in collaboration with worldwide colleges running curatorial studies. The Course will offer the opportunity to 25 young curators from all over the world to work with an internationally renowned visiting professor and curators, dealing with many challenging issues of theoretical and practical aspects of curatorial research, and reviewing the contemporary art as a broadened terrain of culture.

Structure
The Course consists of lectures, seminars, workshops and practice in preparation of Gwangju Biennale and Gwangju Design Biennale, with an intensive schedule of classes and curatorial administrations led by the visiting professor as well as presentations of the participants' projects, and visits to artists, designers, museums, galleries and related institutions.

The objectives of curatorial course are aiming to:

- promote reflections questioning the role of the curator, and research projects in the field of contemporary visual culture
- set up working platforms that may enable participants to develop further curatorial works
- proliferate networking between young creators of the visual art scene and encourage international circulation of cultural projects

Contents
Themes examined during three weeks of lessons will be: concepts of "cultural hybrid," "aesthetic groundedness," "terrain," and the cultural topology and its relations between East and West; the role of museums and alternative spaces; the question of history and its redefinition; and the relations between art and its audiences will be included along with themes.

Visiting Professor
Barbara Vanderlinden is internationally renowned curator, author and founding artistic director of Brussels Biennial, Belgium (2008) and founding director of Roomade, Office for Contemporary Art, Brussels. She has curated numerous exhibitions including in 1999 Laboratorium (with Hans Ulrich Obrist), Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg in 1998 (with Maria Lind and Robert Fleck), Revolution/Restoration in Brussels in 2002 and Do You Believe in Reality? Taipei Biennial (2004). She is Chief Editor of The Manifesta Decade, Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe, Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

How to Apply
Interested applicants from any nationality may apply. No study certificate and academic degree required. Lectures and seminars will be delivered in English. The screen committee consisting of Yongwoo Lee, Byungsoo Eun, Massimiliano Gioni, Barbara Vanderlinden, and Sunjung Kim will select from the applications. The application form must be posted by May 15, 2009.

The applications must include:
1. Application form
Name:
Surname:
Date of birth:
Place of birth:
Citizenship:
Male/Female:
Postal address:
E-mail:
Phone:
List of studies /work experiences:
(Please attach your detailed CV to this form.)
2. A copy of the most relevant published texts and reports of realized curatorial projects.
3. A motivational statement illustrating the applicant's interests and explaining the reason for the application (max. 5.000 characters.)

The selected applicants will be contacted via email by the end of May 2009. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation will sponsor tuition and accommodation during the International Curator Course. Selected applicants will be responsible for travel from place of residence to Gwangju and back, and meals. The material sent for the application will not be returned. According to regulation of the Course, personal data of the applicants is exclusively used for the Course selection procedures and not communicated to others.

SUBMIT BY POST OR EMAIL TO:
Exhibition Department /Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 211 Biennale 2 Gil, Buk-Gu, Gwangju, 500-070, KOREA
E-mail: curatorcourse -at- gb.or.kr

Info: Gwangju Biennale Foundation + 82 62 608 4233