Gabi Ngcobo

--FULLY BOOKED--

Please join on us on Wednesday, 6 February, from 19:00 – 20:30 and Thursday, 7 February, 14:00 – 16:00 for a lecture and seminar with curator, educator, and artist Gabi Ngcobo.

During this two-day event Gabi Ngcobo will discuss refusal as a curatorial strategy as employed in her collaborative projects. These include NGO – Nothing Gets Organised, Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR, 2010–14) and the 10th Berlin Biennale: We Don’t Need Another Hero, which resisted the desire for a single heroic conclusion in favor of embracing complexity. Herein, refusal is applied as a strategy to challenge the uptake of assigned or inherited responsibilities that keep certain people in roles whereby they are expected to explain to those who have the privilege not to know. 

-Wednesday 6 February: Lecture Rijksakademie-

The first session will take shape in the form of an evening lecture at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, where Ngcobo is also a guest advisor. Please be aware that the event is now fully booked.

Location: Sarphatistraat 470, 1018 GW Amsterdam

-Thursday 7 February: Seminar The Black Archives-

The second day at The Black Archives, Amsterdam, will go deeper into the topic in a closed seminar, where some preparatory readings will be provided after registration. The study seminar will be a closed session and is now fully booked. For questions and requests please contact Yolande van der Heide at yolande [​at​] casco.art.

Location: Zeeburgerdijk 19b, 1093 SK, Amsterdam

Initiated by Casco Art Institute, Curating Strategies of Productive Refusal is organized in line with one of Casco’s study lines on the commons, Angry letters. Angry Letters works with the magazine as a repository medium for collating tools that de-center the oppressor/s in conversations on freedom and liberation. The inaugural ‘issue’ is developed with Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain and takes a text-to-workshop form for opening up and applying discussions in real time. The outcome will thus comprise of online and print components to be published in the fall of 2019. Read more about the study line and project here.

This event is co-organized with De Appel, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten with The Black Archives.