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As the world slowly returns to in-person interactions, we want to cultivate what the turbulences of 2020 have made urgently evident: our interconnectedness. It is a crucial time to come together and promote insightful conversations to support each other as practitioners, and rethink curatorship communally. That is why Call for Curators inaugurates ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning), a new series of conversations on curatorial practices,  livestreaming once a month on Tuesdays at 6.30pm (Berlin time) on our Facebook and YouTube channels. ALT+SHIFT+COMM brings together a wide spectrum of practitioners to discuss the multiple understandings and possibilities of curating. The series focuses on practices that foster diverse forms of knowledge and critical thinking by focusing on collaboration and cultivating non-hierarchical and non-normative approaches to curatorship. The conversations also address curating as a practice that, by being part of a systems of knowledge production, can spark change in the social, political, and financial infrastructures that allow contemporary art to exist. Through these conversations we aim to nurture ideas, resources, and solidarity, while reaching across the affective and the intellectual. We want to generate a space of meaningful discourse and consider the responsibilities of curating by focusing on how we do things, rather than just on what we do. ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) is a statement of intent, more than a title. Let’s alter the conversation, shift ground, and commune with each other. To share your suggestions, write to us at [email protected] ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) is a series curated by Ilaria Conti

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) welcomes Staci Bu Shea and Binna Choi for a conversation on Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. Casco Art Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) dedicates itself to cultivating and sustaining the commons through art, questioning its forms of life, shared resources, customs and borders. Art offers a lens through which to look at the commons whilst the commons look to the world, including art. Casco Art Institute works closely with artists by presenting art to create different worlds, now and into the future, and to study, situate and mediate art in relation to the field of the commons. This means, above all, working closely with diverse communities. Staci Bu Shea is a curator and writer living in Utrecht. They focus on aesthetic and poetic practices of social reproduction and care work, as well as its manifestations in interpersonal relationships and daily life, community organizing and institutional practice. Since 2017, Staci has been curator at Casco Art Institute. Before this, Staci co-curated Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies (2017) at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (NY) with Carmel Curtis, and graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College with the group exhibition Emphasis Repeats (2016) at Hessel Museum of Art (NY). They’re also an end-of-life planner and hospice volunteer. Binna Choi is the director at Casco Art Institute, where she engages with both its artistic program and the organizational and (de)instituting practice as her curatorial and collaborative art practice. Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills with the Outsiders, Site for Unlearning (Art Organization) with Annette Krauss and the Casco team, are some of her recent or ongoing curatorial works. She has also been working on restructuring and rearticulating the institution itself with the Casco team, the ecosystem and the annual Assembly. In her earlier work at Casco, she conceived the long-term transdisciplinary project Grand Domestic Revolution (2010-2012) and the multi-faceted program Composing the Commons (2013-2016). Besides this, Binna is a member of Akademie der Künste der Welt in Köln, where, in close collaboration with Christian Nyampeta in 2020, she curated Gwangju Lessons over the 18 May Democratic Uprising and subsequenly presented it at the Asia Culture Center as part of the MaytoDay project by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation. In 2016, she was  curator for the 11th Gwangju Biennale. She has also been serving as an advisor to the Afield Network and a board member for Green Art Lab Alliance Support. https://callforcurators.com/talks/