Gonzo Curating Workshop

We invite you to join the workshop in ‘gonzo curating’ –
an inventive form of curating/exhibition making to challenge
art institutions and established exhibition formats!

When:
Saturday 9. April 2022 11.00-14.30 with optional session on
Wednesday 27.04.2022 17.00-20.30
Where: Online
For whom: artists, curators, authors and others interested in gonzo approach to curating
By whom: artists and curators Aneta Rostkowska and Jakub Woynarowski
Working language: English
Application Deadline: 3. April 2022
Participation in the workshop is free.

The workshop is organized in the context of two ‘gonzo’ exhibitions which will take place in PLATFORM Munich (June/July 2022) and the CCA Temporary Gallery in Cologne respectively.
The workshop is based on the idea of 'gonzo curating' – a creative practice conceived as a process of appropriation of objects by means of constructing semi-fictional narratives presented in the form of performative lectures and guided tours. Using virtual institutions of art, semi-fictional artists and almost-existent exhibitions, gonzo curating is an independent, rebellious and performative artistic and curatorial practice, an inventive form of challenging art institutions and established exhibition formats. Inspired by Hunter Thompson’s highly subjective but politically relevant and playful gonzo journalism, gonzo curating is an attempt to reconceive curatorial practice in the times of ecological, economic and political crisis.

During the workshop an imaginary exhibition will be created involving the Zoom spaces of workshop participants together with objects and people temporarily present within them. Additionally, for participants based in Munich, there will be an opportunity to create a performative gonzo intervention related to the building of PLATFORM during the opening of the gonzo exhibition on 22.06.2022. For the participation we invite artists, curators, writers and anyone that enjoys different forms of imaginative storytelling.
Gonzo Curating Facebook website: https://www.facebook.com/Gonzo-Curating-653800928010270

If you would like to take part, please send an email to:
gonzo@platform-muenchen.de
until 3. April 2022.
Please include a short description of yourself and your motivation for the workshop. You will receive a confirmation of your participation until 6. April 2022. A short reading list will be available for all that registered.