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Notes
towards dOCUMENTA (13) in a state of hope - A lecture
Followed
by a launch / presentation of the first 20 notebooks of the series
"One Hundred Notes One Hundred Thoughts" published by
documenta and Hatje Cantz. Carolyn
Christov-Bakargiev in
conversation with Sarah Rifky
Goethe-Institut
Downtown, 5 El Bustan
Thursday,
21 April 2011 – 19:00
Admission
free
(In
English, no simultaneous translation)
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Carolyn
Christov-Bagarkiev
is
artistic director of “dOCUMENTA(13)”, to take place in Kassel
in 2012.
“Carolyn
Christov-Bakargiev
is a curator and writer based in Rome, Turin and New York. She is
currently the Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of
Contemporary Art in Turin and was the Artistic Director for the
16th Biennale of Sydney (2008). From 1999 to 2001 she was Senior
Curator of exhibitions at P.S.1 contemporary Art Center – a MoMA
Affiliate. Previously, she organised exhibitions as an independent
curator in different countries.”
(facebook.com)
On
„documenta“
“Facts
and Rumors - 01 / Initiated by arts educator, artist, and designer
Arnold Bode, the first edition of documenta opened in Kassel on
July 16, 1955 and ran through September 18 of that year. 02 /
documenta means “lessons” in Latin. Latin is considered a
“dead language” today. However, in the Vatican, it is used as
the official language for all communications. [“Documenta.
Nominative plural of Latin documentum: lesson, example, warning;
medieval Latin: instruction, official paper. (...) Documentum
comes from 1) Lat. docere: to teach, instruct, inform, also to
show and to tell; 2) Lat. mens: the intellectual faculties, the
mind, understanding, also used figuratively as the soul or spirit
of something. ‘The chief aim of the venture (documenta) was to
instruct people’s minds (docere mentis),’ in the words of
Ernst Schuh, Arnold Bode’s assistant at the first documenta.”]
03 / After a break of 1,726 days a new documenta begins, which
takes place for 100 days. 04 / 100 is a symbolic
number for documenta: Arnold Bode called it “The Museum of 100
Days”; Joseph Beuys installed his Office of the Organization for
Direct Democracy by Popular Vote for 100 days at documenta 5
(1972) and Harald Szeemann called it “a 100-day event”;
Catherine David organized “100 days – 100 guests” for
documenta X (1997), and dOCUMENTA (13) will publish “100 Notes –
100 Thoughts.” 05 / The number of documenta visitors has
constantly increased from 130,000 in 1955, to 754,301 in 2007. We
do not know if they know it, or if it really matters. 06 / Victor
Vasarely, who participated in documenta 3 (1964) and died in 1997,
claimed he was born in 1705. 07 / Bazon Brock did a school as an
art project for documenta 4 in 1968 and Joseph Beuys opened an
Office of the Organization for Direct Democracy by Popular Vote at
documenta 5 in 1972. 08 / documenta 6 (1977) was the first
documenta to be televised. 09 / Walter De Maria created The
Vertical Earth Kilometer for documenta 6 in 1977. 10 / documenta 8
(1987) was in black and white. 11 / dOCUMENTA (13) will go to
Kabul where Alighiero Boetti managed a hotel in the 1970s.
dOCUMENTA(13) is interested in etymology, collapse, and recovery.
In Sanscrit “Ka” means “the person.” 12 /
dOCUMENTA (13) is being planned by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev,
with a number of curatorial agents, advisors, and artists. Instead
of taking place solely as an exhibition in Kassel in the summer of
2012, it will extend into the past and into the future.
13 / Could dOCUMENTA (13) work as a spaceship or as a cave?”
(from:
documenta.de)
Links
www.documenta.de
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