CHAIRS AND ATMOSPHERES

Time: 19/10/2023

Address: Polygon Musik

CHAIRS AND ATMOSPHERES
Critical writing, research, and curatorial projects by Burkhard Meltzer

15:00 – 17:00 (Hanoi time) | Thursday, 19.10.2023
ZOOM | Complex 01 – Polygon Musik, 167 Ward Tay Son, Quang Trung, Dong Da District, Hanoi.

Free entry, English only.

Maximum number of participants: 30 people (Polygon Musik), 100 people (ZOOM)
We aim to reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions in our culture and art events, so please bring personal bottles and avoid bringing drinks in disposable cups to the event.

A part of Month of Art Practice – MAP 2023 with the theme ‘Alternative Mobility’.
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Diverse practices like research, teaching, writing, and curating have often been running parallel in my long-term projects. In many cases, I am trying to translate between diverse spaces, media, and contexts that seem to be connected to practices of contemporary art. One could say, I have been focusing on the edges of the discipline. Throughout the past 15 years, I have primarily been following two topics: contemporary art`s relations to design and architecture, and more recently, transcultural relations between Europe and East Asia. My talk will give a short introduction into a selection of respective curatorial and writing projects.

— Burkhard Meltzer

ABOUT GUEST CURATOR
BURKHARD MELTZER is a Zurich-based writer, researcher, and curator.
Meltzer has co-edited books and magazines on contemporary art and design. He has been contributing to publications such as artforum.com, form, and frieze magazine. From 2003 to 2007, Burkhard Meltzer worked in the curatorial team of the Kunsthalle St. Gallen, as a curatorial assistant until 2006, and as a curator and director until 2007. He has been an associate lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2006 and a researcher at ZHdK`s Institute for Critical Theory from 2008–2015.