While the annual IKT Congress had to be postponed due to the pandemic, IKT resolved to organize a virtual gathering to connect with its members and the public at large during these challenging times. Over a period of 3 hours each day, 218 cultural producers from all over the world tuned in to hear from a diverse group of IKT members who shared their stories, experiences and best practices developed over the past few months; as well as from key note speakers and panelists exploring sustainable practices in our collective curatorial endeavors.
Journalist Till Briegleb, author of the insightful essay Consequence Paralysis delivered the key-note addressr on day 1; director of the Berliner Festspiele, Tomas Oberender, and curator of the ‘unplugged exhibition’ Down to Earth hosted by the Martin Gropius Bau in Summer 2020; Farid Rakun from the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, curator of the fifteenth edition of Documenta, and Lucia Pietroisuti, Curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, were the featured speakers of the round table discussion I moderated on day 2.
Presenters featured in the Global Outlook session on day 1:
Juraj Carny (Independent Curator, Bratislava | Slovak Republic)
Biljana Ciric (Independent Curator, Melbourne | Australia)
O'Neil Lawrence (Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston | Jamaica)
René Morales (Curator at Pérez Art Museum, Miami | USA)
Rahraw Omarzad (Prof Faculty of Fine Arts Kabul University, Founder of the Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan CCAA & Founder of Women Art Center Kabul | Afghanistan)
Julien Robson (Independent Curator & Director of Great Meadows Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky | USA)
Paula Toppila (Executive Director and Curator of Pro Arte Foundation and IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki | Finland)
Eugenio Viola (Chief Curator of MAMBO Modern Art Museum of Bogota | Columbia)
Video presentations by
Nahela Hechavarría Pouymiró (Curator and Visual Art Specialist of Casa de las Américas, Havana | Cuba)
Marina Reyes Franco (Curator at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan | Puerto Rico)Maayan Sheleff (Independent curator and artistic advisor of the Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem, Tel Aviv | Israel)