[Frameworks] Liberty: a curated show

[Bernard Roddy]

Jodie Mack:

It's a nice course title, "Curating and Microcinema: Make your own culture."

It raises many fine questions. For one, what is the role of "curating" in
these microcinemas today? Does the term function in anything like the way
it is intended to for budgeted, wall-hung exhibitions?

The word "liberty" is also a striking choice for an exhibition theme. If
you read the news like I have, you'll likely bring to mind a president in
front of the Mount Rushmore or a debate concerning a Lincoln monument that
has the famous president standing with a nude black slave before him. (An
1876 document was just unearthed by emancipation leader, Frederick
Douglass, objecting to the sculpture's design: "The negro here, though
rising, is still on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I die is
a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a
four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man." From the Wall Street
Journal today)

I very much like the whole project - or task! - now before your students.
What should be screened? And what can be said about the very procedures
that go into deciding? Should there be a call for new work? What if you
can't get permission to screen something?

Last year I responded to a call entitled What Remains that was held here in
Chicago and organized by Joseph Ravens and ieke Trinks. It was a
complicated concept, to use the term artists like to employ, a term for
approaching new work. But isn't an exhibition, or the way in which it is
conceived, also a creative work, and first off a concept?

Bernie
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