In partnership with Swiss Arts Council Prohelvetia, New Delhi and the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, the Samdani Art Foundation is looking for art enthusiasts to work as Art Mediators during the Dhaka Art Summit 2018.
Art Mediation intends to widen access to art for different audiences, especially those not very familiar with art. Recently invented mediation formats break with the traditional idea of art mediation where experts explain the arts.
Read MoreCosmin Costinas, Director at Para-Site in Hong Kong, will be joining the Dhaka Art Summit 2018 team as one of nine invited Guest Curators. Costinas exhibition A beast, a god and a line will form an important part of DAS 2018's offer, weaving together various historical connections across a geography with Bengal at its core, and widening DAS's focus, for the first time, to include connections to Southeast Asia. As his curatorial research develops, we caught up with Costinas to find out more about his interests as a curator and his career to date.
Read Moreby Abhijan Gupta, Curatorial Intern, Dhaka Art Summit
In May 2017, ProHelvetia New Delhi invited me to participate in a two-week research residency focusing on the techniques and methodologies of art mediation at HSLU – Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Hochschule Luzern . For those unfamiliar with art mediation, it is a technique that creates an alternative to the traditional top-down approach of information exchange between curator and visitor to create a dialogue that draws opinions from the visitor about the work they are engaging with, producing a non-hierarchical cultural space where all opinions are valid.
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