Projects 1997

Stopping the Process?

An international seminar for curators

13-16 September 1997,
Henningssvaer / Lofoten, Norway

An international seminar at the Lofoten islands in Norway. In this event, curators from all over the world presented papers and lectures in which they reflected on their practice of exhibition makers.

Participants:

Bart de Baere (BE), Stephen Bann (GB), Zygmunt Bauman (GB), Iwona Blazwick (GB), Per Bj. Boym (NO), Sabeth Buchmann (D), Dan Cameron (USA), Lynne Cooke (USA), Maia Damianovic (USA), Andrzej Duszenko (USA), David Elliott (GB/SE), Charles Esche (GB), Kendell Geers (RSA), Michael Glasmeier (D), Hannes Sigurdsson (ISL), Paulo Herkenhoff (BR), Oscar Ho Hing-kay (HK), Maaretta Jaukkuri (FIN), Maria Lind (SE), Patrick Murphy (USA), Trit Rogoff (GB), Richard Shusterman (USA) and Andrei Zorin (R).

The seminar was organised by: Anders Kreuger and Maaretta Jaukkuri

"Populism as elitism. Elitism as populism.
Does the public see? Does the art see?
Does the public listen? Does the art listen?
The producer as artist. The artist as producer.
The producer as art. The art as product.
Does criticism cope with art? Does art cope with criticism?
The large audience for small worlds. The small audience for the world of art."

This framework of issues was formulated in order to address and to trace out the conceptual loops in the contemporary discussion about art and exhibitions. (Anders Kreuger)

A publication, Stopping the process?, that collects papers and talks presented during the seminar, were published in 1998.