Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-25 Thread magnus lawrie
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:03:00PM +, Johannes Birringer wrote: dear soft_skinned listeners: thx for responses that came, will reply soon when time arrives it just occurred to me, reading the thread-title on practice as a means towards academic self-criticism and Magnus's reply to

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-24 Thread I. J.
Dear all, thank you for your thought-provoking contributions and responses. Will follow up. I'll start with Magda: Interesting point below.  Thanks for bringing up this question again. This is a hard one, and I am a bit stuck on its language indeed, so I will reiterate it again: how do we

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear soft_skinned listeners: thx for responses that came, will reply soon when time arrives it just occurred to me, reading the thread-title on practice as a means towards academic self-criticism and Magnus's reply to Magda, that I probably have underestimated how Magda may have intended

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-23 Thread Gabriel Menotti
institutional critique is no longer associated with artistic practices only and is developing towards what has been termed as a 'transversal practice' [MAGDA TYZLIK-CARVER] And do you see institutional critique playing a central role not only in your curatorial practice, but also in your academic

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-23 Thread Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Hi Johannes, Ioana, Gabriel, and all, Thank you for your comments and great questions. Not easy to answer, I have to admit, but I will give it a go. Johannes thank you for your response. Unfortunately I would agree, there is very little joy about/in academia at the moment and as we know there

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear soft_skinned listeners: these last days of reading all of your posts brought many inspiring moments, and I wish to thank all the writers here, there is much to grapple with as we moved forward a bit from noise/free improvisation/Noise and Capitalism to the very precise thoughts laid out

[-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-21 Thread Gabriel Menotti
regardless if the question of artistic practice and research method and their in/compatibilities take place within an institutional or more personal and subjective context, it is, nevertheless, an administrative issue which involves bureaucratic processes and forms of communication/communicating

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-21 Thread Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Hi Menotti, Magnus et all, Thank you for your comments and questions. I wouldn't wish anyone the torment of academic self-criticism through their practice. I hope I am not guilty of that, but I can almost picture it represented in some medieval style and hanging above my desk as a warning.