This will be an exploratory talk through some of the challenges and creative responses to how we document curatorial work. It spans artworks, academic work, exhibitions rethinking exhibitions, queering curating and the particular challenges facing the historian of curating.
The lecture is in Paviljong Møllendal located on the plaza outside of Campus KMD Wednesday 6 September at 5 pm and is also open to the public. The location has step free access. The lecture is in English, free and open to all.
This lecture is supported by "SPIRE - Såkornsmidler for initiering og utvikling av nye internasjonale forskningssamarbeid" from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

Bio:
Anthony Gardner is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Oxford, where he was the Head of the Ruskin School of Art from 2017 to 2020 and is currently the Director of Graduate Studies. He has published widely on subjects including postcolonialism, postsocialism and curatorial histories, with articles in On Curating, ARTMargins,Third Text, Postcolonial Studies and many other journals and anthologies. From 2012 to 2021, he was an editor of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins, for which he continues to serve as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board. Among his books are Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations (Melbourne, 2013), Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art against Democracy (MIT Press, 2015) and, also through MIT Press in 2015, the anthology Neue Slowenische Kunst: From Kapital to Capital (with Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Čufer), which was a finalist for the 2017 Alfred H Barr Award for best exhibition catalogue worldwide. In 2016, he co-authored (with Charles Green, University of Melbourne) Biennials, Triennials and documenta: The exhibitions that created contemporary art, published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is currently developing two new projects: a study of art, exhibitions and pedagogy in a time of our perpetual distraction; and a critical curatorial history of the work of Okwui Enwezor and his collaborators.