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Events Lecture Series Participant Activities The educational program What Could/Should Curating Do is proud to announce lecture by Katalin Szekely Hosted by Kolarac Venue: Student square no 5 Kolarac Josic Pancic Hall Date: November 9th 2022 18:00 Prefigurative Practices – OFF-Biennale Budapest at documenta fifteen Prefigurative practices can be defined as attempts to enact, in the present, utopian or alternative social relations and institutional models, aspired to in the future. The modus operandi of OFF-Biennale Budapest—a grassroots, independent arts initiative, since 2013—has also been rooted in such practices: by acting as if it were an art institution organizing large-scale, international art events, it “performs” and “prefigures” an institution. During this process of “self-instituting”, OFF flexibly reflects on and recreates itself according to the challenges occurring in its local context of “illiberal democracy”. And while in terms of infrastructure, funding, and organization OFF reinvents itself from edition to edition, its curatorial practice is ongoing, with a strong focus on social ideas that experiment with forms of coexistence to build a society of mutual trust, generosity, responsibility, and care. Based on this (structural and curatorial) practice, OFF was invited to present its “cosmology” in the framework of documenta fifteen. As a member of the so-called “lumbung interlokal”—consisting of 14 different but like-minded organizations and initiatives from all around the world—OFF presented two exhibition projects and a publication that are not only representative of its activities, but are also in line with the general concept of documenta fifteen, the “lumbung”. documenta fifteen: OFF-Biennale Budapest, Sead Kazanxhiu, The Nest, 2012–2022, installation view, Fridericianum (façade), Kassel, May 11, 2022, photo: Nicolas Wefers About Speaker Katalin Székely holds an MA in Art History and German Literature from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest, and was a curator at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art between 2008 and 2013. She is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at Eötvös Loránd University. Her field of research includes new media practices in the Neo-Avant-Garde in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe, and institutional critique in the CEE region from the early 1960s to the present. Since 2014, Katalin Székely has been a member of the curatorial team of OFF-Biennale Budapest, the largest independent, grassroots arts initiative in Hungary. Since November 2015, as Creative Program Officer at Blinken OSA, she has curated and coordinated exhibitions and other public programs. The event is free and open to the public. The WCSCD educational program and series of public lectures have been initiated and organized by Biljana Ciric. Project Partners We thank following partners for supporting selected participants for 2022 program: Romanian Cultural Institute. Artcom platform , Kadist Foundation, William Demant Foundation For more information about the program, please refer to www.wcscd.com Project contacts: what.could.curating.do@gmail.com Follow us: FB: @whatcscdo Instagram: @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo < Mentors Educational Program How to Apply >

Consider being part of the WCSCD growing community. This program is designed for people who want to engage in contemporary social issues through art. Join one of our groups to support our programs and vision, but also to gain special access to parts of the programs we present. Support could be on an annual basis or by a three-year engagement. Volunteers (no age requirement): If you would like to gain an insight into the work of WCSCD, all the while helping us with various activities, send us an email with a proposed timeframe and area of your involvement. We are happy to consider you becoming a part of our team in the short or long-term run! Artisans 30€ (up to 35 years old): For young art lovers who want to connect with the art world deeper. A gift from our publications’ catalog. Get personal with the WCSCD team and the people we work with. Invitation to join one close session during the educational program that is of interest to you. For each session, we invite a limited number of artisans, since we prefer to work in smaller groups. Exclusive invitation to a welcome dinner for WCSCD participants. Companion 500€: Invitation to join our team and educational program participants for a research trip we organize annually to another country (including meeting professionals in the field, and visiting institutions and galleries with us). Invitation to join us for artists' studio visits in Serbia. Invitation to a dinner with our mentors or invited guests and artists. A gift from our publications’ catalog. Artist production supporting circle, 1200€: You can directly support emerging artists in the production of their new work. Every year, through the educational program, we work with one artist on one of their developing new work. See some of the artists’ works we supported in the following link: sasatkacenko.com/wcscd Artist and curators education supporting circle, 1200€: Offer the opportunity to an individual to participate in the educational program. You can be anywhere in the world. We run an open call for artists and curators for our educational program. However, if you feel that any other artist or curator is in urgent need of the educational program we offer, we are open to your proposals. Revitalizing the land circle WCSCD is going through a transition while exploring its relationship to rural land. We are working with communities in the Šumadija region (Central Serbia) towards enabling the land to be used and incorporated into contemporary practice. If you need land access or are exploring similar topics, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Events Lecture Series Participant Activities To be enjoyed endlessly – a zine final project by WCSCD2019 curators Seda Yıldız and Ewa Borysiewicz NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Speaking (with, ‘n, from) Nearby “I don't intend to speak about, just to speak near by.” Using Trinh T. Minh-ha quote we would like to suggest to think of your own position of speaking near by someone or something and what kind of relationality it implies. An invited tutor for this task is Toby Üpson, an art writer currently based in London (UK). His interests lie in ideas around realities and how these (so often framed as this) can be mediated and consumed. Specifically, how realities can be mediated and consumed otherwise. Often drawn to quotidian matter, Üpson uses ekphrastic modes of writing to abound linear understandings of things. In turn, questioning the system that surrounds. Üpson has written for numerous international publications, most recently Art Monthly, Art & Education, FAD_, and Garageland. Intro This is an exercise in close writing. In slowness, and the potentials of ekphrastic prose to resist systemic forms of op- and re- pression. That is the task’s ‘aim’, beyond creative fulfillment, is to use poetic language to get beyond the stereotyped way we receive our everyday existence and to afford an opportunity for a writer, indeed a reader, to escape the streamlined flows of a reality made in and as a disposable commodity. This task seeks to create air. To afford slow breaths. To allow us to think anew from a position of proximity. Here slowness and a collection of written prompts will be used to make sensorial something of a space between the I of the writer and an everyday object before their eyes. And in this way, this task seeks to give new, anomalous, visibility, to something otherwise ‘known’, something overlooked. Further, as a metaphorical excise, the task asks us to consider the critical (not only liberatory but revolutionary) potentials of creative writing, of poetic and indirect language, of slowness, and how these expressions could be applied to everyday life as a way to resist a colonial-capitalist world system, where ‘efficiency’ of movement is foregrounded for wholly extractive ends. The output of this task will be a short 100-word text. Rather than an appendage to an encounter with a thing, my hope is that this exercise will allow you to produce a text that has its own creative agency. A text that provides a reader with a point of departure for their own creative thinking. And, in this way, this text will be something of a creative relay. You will need (exercise equipment) Paper and a pencil, or a pen; or a laptop, or a phone (your preferred writing media) The ability to go into the world. That is, to sit in a cafe or park, for example (this task could be undertaken from within one's home however) Slowness and time. Though the physical output from this task is a short 100 word text, the task itself should be performed with beautiful slowness; with careful and carefilled thinking. Task (exercise instructions) Go somewhere you go everyday or very regularly (for example, a cafe, a park, or a railway station) Sit in this place and notice. What are the small, overlooked, things that constitute the performances of this place? Note these down as a short list. (ie, the teaspoons in a cafe, the benches in a park, the tickets that flutter between hands at a railway station.) Choose one of these small, overlooked, things, and in 100 words describe this.(Please do not name this thing. We do not want 100 words of ‘this spoon is grey.’ This is a rather dull description.) Now, thinking across your senses (sight and smell and sound and taste?) use 100 words to describe how you experience this thing. (ie, ‘It's cold and sleek. Sounding with a clatter as I twist and turn cappuccino foam…’) Stay close to this thing, and also stay close to how you are experiencing this thing at this moment. Note down one association that comes to mind. (This could be a memory, or an analogy, a story, or a theory - try to avoid thinking too academic, however. For example, a teaspoon might remind you of an oyster shell.) Now, use 100 words to describe this association. (ie, why does the teaspoon remind you of an oyster shell?) We are going to shift perspective now. Write down, in 100 words, why this place is everyday, and also mention the performance(s) you enact in this place. (‘I come to this cafe every day. It is a large space in the centre of the city. I always get a cappuccino before work….’ You have 100 words, think carefully.) From this perspective, use 100 words to describe how the thing of your previous attention operates within this space. Also, consider, why is it overlooked, and how does this thing enable you to perform what you do in this place? You should now have a total of 500 words - five sets of 100 word notes - which describe a thing in a space and something of your relation to this. As an exercise in creative editing, take these 500 words and weave them together into a singular text of no more than 100 words. This text can take any form - a single paragraph, a series of short verses, a score or a script - think creatively. (I am asking you to condense a space of relation down into something small and indeed reductive. The aim of this challenge is, however, to make you think about words carefully, precisely; to make you consider how to caress a space of relations (that space between you - a speaking ‘I’ - and an overlooked thing - the thing before your ‘eye’) into existence.) You can now leave this everyday place. (Enjoy the rest of your day!) Additional materials Leonid Bilmes, 2023, ‘Introduction: On seeing prose pictures,’ in Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection . Bloomsbury Publishing Marcel Proust, c.1927, In Search of Lost Time. Volume 6: Finding Time Again [trans. Ian Patterson], pages 180-207. Penguin Books (2003). Georges Perec, c. 1975, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris Tina M. Campt, 2017, Listening to Images Self-feedback What unexpected happened during your performing of the task? Did something break your shell? How do you envision applying this exercise in an institutional framework (museum/ gallery visit, meeting and artist/ curator)? What change may it bring to your approach? Can you articulate your individual voice - where does it come from, what it aims for?

As You Go ... Activities 10 Aug 2022 Bor Encounters As you go…roads under your feet, towards the new future Bor Encounters September 15th –September 19th 2022 Read More 10 July 2021 Sharing Session: As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future ​ Read More 28 June 2021 Stories from the Room in Addis Ababa ​ Read More 11 May 2021 Astrobus Ethiopia 2021 | Omo Valley Southwest Ethiopia ​ Read More 8 Apr 2021 AS YOU GO… ROADS UNDER YOUR FEET, TOWARDS THE NEW FUTURE | FILM PROGRAM ​ Read More 24 Mar 2021 Announcement: Ash Moniz’s Research on Cartographies of Solidarity is selected for Maritime Portal Residency in 2021 ​ Read More 2 Mar 2021 As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future | Symposium ​ Read More 4 Jan 2021 Open Call for Maritime Portal Residency ​ Read More 7 Nov 2020 Newly commissioned project by RAM Jasphy Zheng: Stories from the Room Curators: Biljana Ciric, Larys Frogier, Billy Tang Read More 6 Nov 2020 Приче између зидова у Народној библиотеци Бор Новембар 2020 – Read More 4 Feb 2020 Preface February 4th 2020 2pm – 8pm Guramayne Art Center Addis Ababa Organized in collaboration with Biljana Ciric & Guramayne Art Center Read More

Online Learning Borderlines July 2024 – ongoing Celebrating Resilience and Solidarity June 2024 Glossary l(a)unch: a passage between collecting and transforming June, 2024

Events Lecture Series Participant Activities Series of texts developed by participants of WCSCD 2020/2021 program as a response to Bruno Latour text What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model? The series of texts have been developed by participants of WCSCD2020/2021 program as a response to Bruno Latour text What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model? http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/downloads/P-202-AOC-ENGLISH_1.pdf This was volunteer response during the lock down as a way of solidarity and vocalizing our hopes and fears. I would like to thank to all authors who contributed as well as Katelynn Dunn and Róisín McQueirns for editorial work on published texts Program has been postponed for March 2021. C OVER IMAGE photo by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand Silver of the Blue Sky NYC April 2020 LIST OF CONTRIBUTION 22 June 2020 Which Side Have You Chosen? A Response to Bruno Latour [1] Anna Mikaela Ekstrand Read More 4 May 2020 Response to Latour I, Crisis, Production and Closed Communication Katelynn Dunn Read More 2 May 2020 After The Covid-19: Speculations Over The Verb ‘To Re-Start Giulia Menegale Read More 23 Apr 2020 Present Perfect Continuous Tīna Pētersone Read More 17 Apr 2020 Immovable Object /Unstoppable Force Devashish Sharma Read More 10 Apr 2020 Care in Crisis – A Response to Bruno Latour’s protective measures post-crisis Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel Read More 10 Apr 2020 A response to Bruno Latour’s Protective Measures Nathalie Encarnacion Read More 10 Apr 2020 Art in Central Asia during the quarantine Nellya Dzhamanbaeva Read More 7 Apr 2020 Activities to stop or to reappear and to be born after (or as a result of) the health crisis Yana Gaponenko Read More 6 Apr 2020 Untitled Madina Gasimi Read More 5 Apr 2020 The Landscape of Unknown Idil Bozkurt Read More 5 Apr 2020 Art as barrier gestures Anne Bourrassé Read More

Throughout the first year of inquiry, As you go…roads under your feet, towards the new future , most of the research has dealt with human-made changes and how this has interfered with the local life of other people. However, there is very little mention of the non-human world, or an acknowledgement of its existence and transformation. For the april edition of our online journal , I asked each researcher and partner cells (if there are many of you in one cell, you must still each individually participate) to contribute two keywords. The first describing one non-human existence which has disappeared from the earth in relation to the changes within their research. The second a non-human existence that has emerged from the new living conditions that have transformed within your respective research. The keyword and its accompanying description could range from one sentence to an entire page, could be sounds of short video, and image. This special feature of journal in march will acknowledge our interdependence in the world that virus reminded us of but also proposition to act and view the world as truly interconnected web knowing that we are just one part of it. It is invitation to become conscious of the world under our feet, making each step lighter, acknowledging the world below. Biljana Ciric 29 Apr 2021 Manila shawl and “gold mountain uncles” and Protein demand and chicken farm blockchain Nikita Yingqian Cai Read More 27 Apr 2021 “Topola” (Cottonwood trees) and “Breza” (birch trees) and Chinese wok Hu Yun Read More 25 Apr 2021 kaijū and The real Ocean & Wavz Read More 22 Apr 2021 The roar, which never vanished Sultan Mussakhan Read More 20 Apr 2021 Gigantic dwarfs of Lake Balkhash: Journey into a microscopic world of phytoplankton. Veronika Dashkova Read More 19 Apr 2021 cosmotechnics, modernity, RTB Bor, (data) mining, computer history, self-managing socialism Robert Bobnic and Kaja Kraner Read More 18 Apr 2021 national identities, common ground Marija Glavas Read More 16 Apr 2021 Disappeared – appeared: selo – BOR – grad village – BOR – city Jelica Jovanovic Read More 12 Apr 2021 Appearing: the statue of Confucius in front of the Samarkand State University Disappearing: historical city centres across Uzbekistan due to gentrification Alex Ulko Read More 10 Apr 2021 Pigeon post Kyōzō Jasphy Zheng Read More

As you go … Online Journal Editorial Statement As you go... roads under your feet, towards the new future is transitioning from a long-term research curatorial inquiry into a sustainable, autonomous, transnational, and multiplatform organization. Biljana Ciric conceived and initiated this project in 2019, and it has since developed into a network of organic research cells comprising independent art practitioners, small-scale organizations, state/private museums, and researchers from various fields. As you go… aims to generate alternative modes of working together that debunk the hierarchy of the artistic institution, encouraging creative interplays amidst the vast scope of cultural production and interdisciplinary research. The initiative has organized two encounters, the first in Addis Ababa and the other in Bor, a symposium, and provided support to numerous artists, collectives, and researchers. The transition to a sustainable, autonomous, transnational, and multiplatform organization is a significant step forward for As you go… and its partners. The organization will continue to connect and relate with localities on the margins and expand its network to like-minded individuals, communities, and institutions in various regions. As you go… will nurture art and research as political and solidarity practice within its organization members and beyond, using opacity and visibility as active choices. As you go… transnational organization funding partner cells include: Biljana Ciric , What Could Should Curating Do, Belgrade Larys Frogier , OW Ocean & Wavz, Paris Aigerim Kapar , Artcom Platform, Almaty/Astana Jelica Jovanovic , Belgrade/Vienna Sinkneh Eshetu , Fruitycity Children’s World, Addis Ababa Among our other activities and platforms that we use to connect to and engage with artists, art institutions, and the public, we will continue our online journal. As a journal, we are committed to supporting initiatives that challenge the usual definition of curatorial practice and academic research and aim to generate alternative modes of working together. We believe that As you go… has the potential to make a significant contribution to contemporary arts and humanities by fostering collective and critical learning, building a sense of intimacy, and amplifying unheard voices of shared struggles within different contexts. As you go… member cells in different parts of the globe commit to continuing to contribute to our journal, sharing their personal as well as institutional experiences and learning, as they act within their local contexts with a shared vision as an organic unit. We also encourage and welcome contributions from individual and institutional partners of As you go… to lend impetus to our shared goal of playing constructive roles in contemporary arts and humanities through channeling unheard voices and ‘quoting from the margins’. As you go… funding partner cells will also serve as members of the online journal editorial board. Written by Sinkneh Eshetu April 2023 Addis Ababa 21 Feb 2022 Stories from the room - Conversation Jasphy Zheng Read More 18 Feb 2022 A disturbing Chinese dream: scattered thoughts on the cultures of involution and art institution in China Zian Chen Read More 15 Dec 2021 Shore Seeing Stillness Ash Moniz Read More 10 Nov 2021 Non-Alignment Summit Anniversary a difficulty to re-member Dunja Karanović & Jovan Mladenović Read More 5 Nov 2021 SEEING THE INVISIBLE Alexey Ulko Read More 3 Nov 2021 THE CULTURAL INTERWEAVING OF CHINA AND THE BALKANS: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF ARTISTIC EXCHANGES UNDER THE BRI Marija Glavaš Read More 15 Oct 2021 NETWORKING THE PERIPHERIES: LOOKING EAST FROM THE EAST Jelica Jovanović Read More 10 Sept 2021 Virtually Driving Back in Time? Sinkneh Eshetu Read More 15 July 2021 Notes on respiration Teodora Jeremić Read More 10 July 2021 Untitled Naol Befkadu Read More 20 June 2021 The Election Conundrum: Ethiopia’s Determination to hold the 6th National Election and its Ramifications Naol Befkadu Read More 15 June 2021 Life ‘After’ the Pandemic: Ethiopia’s Response to COVID-19’s Paradoxical Effect Naol Befkadu Read More 25 May 2021 Astrobus Ethiopia 2021 Astrobus Read More 10 Apr 2021 As you go... Journal Special Issue April 2021 Biljana Ciric Read More 15 Feb 2021 THE CULTURAL INTERWEAVING OF CHINA AND THE BALKANS Marija Glavaš Read More 15 Jan 2021 History and stories from Lake Balkhash Aigerim Kapar Read More 30 Dec 2020 THE DANGER OF AMBITION AND NEGLECT The Case of Beautifying Sheger Sinkneh Eshetu, Aziza Abdulfetah Busser & Berhanu Read More 25 Dec 2020 Behind Ethiopia’s Civil War: From Guerrilla to Secessionist Berhanu Read More 20 Dec 2020 “Bor is burning” [1]: the political economy of IT in the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia Robert Bobnič and Kaja Kraner Read More 26 Nov 2020 Infrastructuring the Region: Fieldnotes of an Ongoing Research Jelica Jovanović Read More 22 Nov 2020 Seeing the Invisible: Documenting and Interpreting China’s Cultural Presence in Uzbekistan (Part 2) Alexey Ulko Read More 15 Nov 2020 Partner Cells in Co-Immunity ​ Read More 28 Aug 2020 On Bor’s Industrial Heritage Dragan Stojmenovic Read More 25 Aug 2020 Seeing the Invisible: Documenting and Interpreting China’s Cultural Presence in Uzbekistan (Part 1) Alexey Ulko Read More 20 Aug 2020 On Not Hearing the Gunfire Su Wei Read More 15 Aug 2020 Treading a line Sarah Bushra Read More 28 July 2020 The stories behind the lockdown: Kazakhstan against Corona Anvar Musrepov Read More 20 July 2020 Bicycle Uprising Against Authoritarianism Tjaša Pureber Read More 15 July 2020 Belgrade Calling 2 Katarina Kostandinović Read More 28 June 2020 BOR Hu Yun Read More 20 June 2020 Beating Around the Bush: Some Reflections on the Crisis of “Imported Cases” of Africans in Guangzhou Berhanu Read More 28 May 2020 Bishkek – Addis Ababa, notes from the journey through space and time Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev Read More 18 May 2020 Mask making and coffee drinking in Addis Sarah Bushra Read More 25 Apr 2020 Belgrade Calling Katarina Kostandinović Read More 20 Apr 2020 Boarding & Europe Siniša Ilić Read More 18 Apr 2020 School-In-Isolation Bermet Borubaeva Read More 16 Apr 2020 Artists as Gardeners Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev Read More 15 Apr 2020 Corena* Musings Sarah Bushra Read More 14 Apr 2020 What happens after the contactless art world? Nikita Yingqian Cai Read More 12 Apr 2020 The Sustainable Museum Zdenka Badovinac Read More

About educational program Introduction of program 2018-2022 About Participants Alumni Mentors Events How to Apply Programs WHAT COULD/SHOULD CURATING DO?—WCSCD was initiated in 2018 in Belgrade as an educational platform focused around notions of the curatorial and is a registered civic association. ​ WCSCD’s education program has been run on an annual basis every year since 2018. Till 2022 it was organized as a three-month program for practitioners situated in Belgrade. From 2023 program is organized as biennial working with program participants over longer period of time. ​ Our participants were young practitioners from different parts of the world including the Balkans, EU, Asia, Central Asia, Russia and Latin America making it a unique program in Europe. ​ WCSCD educational program has been learning through recent years to think what kind of citation could actively produce.Through carefully created mentorship program we are committed to think and practice what kind of knowledge we consider worth and how it gets prioritized creating new citations from the margins. [1] ​ [1] Sara Ahmed, “White Men,” Feminist Killjoys Blog, November 4 2014, www.feministkilljoys.com/2014/11/04/white-men