Look at Looking and Observing Observers
by Emmeli Person
One of the reasons why FLOCK was created was to encourage exchanges of methods, ideas and critical thinking between artists working with participatory practices. This spring we will host sessions where this will happen! This second session in the series will be held by Emmeli Person.
The talk will be on zoom on the 18th of February, at 19:00 - to participate please send an email to info@flockprojects.se
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If a participatory project takes place inside an art institution and there is no image of it - did it really happen?
Anchored in the ongoing projects ‘Kids Looking Busy’ and ‘Going to an exhibition: In Character’ at Index Foundation, this session hangs out with artist and curator Emmeli Person to reflect on the complexities of working with long-term participatory projects in art institutions. Lingering between the perfect funding photos, profile pictures and GDPR laws, this session reflects on the roles, tropes and boxes that both facilitators and participants blend in and out of when organizing learning situations that aim to learn with, instead of about, art.
Emmeli Person is an artist working within the framework of curatorial and critical learning practices. As an artist her work extends itself within the expanded field of new materialistic thinking and embraces a phenomenological approach to the objects we sometimes call art. Her research and practice organizes itself in playful and speculative ways, as it looks at how we collectively can challenge and re-tell our ecological and phenomenological realities.
Image by José Velasquez Esteban member of Index Teen Advisory Board 2020/21.
The talk is organised by FLOCK in partnership with PUBLICS (wwww.publics.fi) and is presented with support from Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point.