Main Symposium Presenters:
What Could Should Curating Do (www.wcscd.com)
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (http://www.mg-lj.si/)
Organized by Biljana Ciric
DATES: March 22nd – 31st 2021
TIME: 11am Ljubljana time / 9pm Melbourne time/ 1pm Addis Ababa / 6pm Shanghai, Guangzhou / 4pm Astana
Participants: Zdenka Badovinac (curator, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana); Robel Temesgen ( artist, Addis Ababa); Larys Frogier (director, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai ); Sinkneh Eshetu (writer,Addis Ababa); Marija Glavas (sociologist, Ljubljana); Berhanu (anthropologist, Canberra); Aigerim Kapar (interdependent curator, Astana); Jelica Jovanovic (architect, Belgrade); Hu Yun (artist, Melbourne); Jasphy Zheng (artist, Xia Men); Dragan Stojmenovic (Public Library, Bor); Nikita Choi (chief curator, Times Museum, Guangzhou); Robert Bobnic and Kaja Kraner (researchers, lecturers Ljubljana); Aziza Abdulfetah Busser (architect and academic, Addis Ababa); Alex Ulko (artist and researcher, Tashkent); Brett Neilson (professor Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University); Yabebal Fantaye (Astrophysicist and a data scientist, co-founder of the 10 Academy initiative, Addis Ababa), Salem Makuria (independent writer, producer, director, videographer, and professor in the Art Department at Wellesley College), Biljana Ciric (interdependent curator and founder of WCSCD)
主要发起者：
“策展可以/应该做什么”（www.wcscd.com）
现代艺术博物馆，卢布尔雅那（http://www.mg-lj.si/）
组织者：比利安娜·思瑞克
日期：2021年3月22日 - 3月31日
时间：11:00 卢布尔雅那 / 21:00 墨尔本 / 13:00 亚的斯亚贝巴 / 18:00 上海，广州 / 16:00 阿斯塔纳
参与者：兹登卡·巴多维那茨（策展人, 现代艺术博物馆，卢布尔雅那）； 罗贝尔·特梅斯根（艺术家，亚的斯亚贝巴）； 拉瑞斯·弗洛乔（上海外滩美术馆馆长，上海）； 辛克内·埃什图（写作者，亚的斯亚贝巴）； 玛莉嘉·格拉瓦什（社会学家，卢布尔雅那）； Berhanu（人类学家，堪培拉）； 爱格丽·卡帕尔（独立策展人，阿斯塔纳）； 耶利卡·约万诺维奇（建筑师，贝尔格莱德）； 胡昀（艺术家，墨尔本）； 郑亦然（艺术家，厦门）；德拉甘·斯托梅诺维奇（博尔公共图书馆，博尔）； 蔡影茜（时代美术馆首席策展人，广州）； 罗伯特·波布尼克和卡亚·克雷纳（研究者，讲师，卢布尔雅那）；阿齐扎·阿卜杜勒·菲塔（建筑师和学者, 亚的斯亚贝巴）； 亚力克斯·乌尔克（艺术家和学者, 塔什干）； 布雷特·尼尔森（文化和社会院教授, 西悉尼大学）； 亚贝巴尔·范塔耶（天文学家和科学家，10 学院计划共同发起人，亚的斯亚贝巴）； 撒勒姆·梅库利亚（独立写作者，制作人，导演，摄影师，维斯理学院艺术系教授）, 比利安娜·思瑞克（独立策展人，WCSCD发起人）
As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future symposium is the first public moment of sharing not only our research, but also our mode of working based on relationality and interdependence that we bring with us as we move forward.
As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future is a long-term project and research centres around the unheard voices and raising awareness to the shared problems underlying different contexts, ranging from China to Balkan, from Ethiopia to Central Asia. Through building a collective knowledge platform organized around the principals of ‘organic cells’ of the research — the collaborations with span from individuals and small-scale organizations to state-run and private museums — which together will form a close-knit atmosphere to engage in an entirely novel form of collaboration.
Many of these localities involved in the project situated on the margins of the global economy re-gained a momentum of visibility through geo-political conflicts. Could a new visibility and set of geo-politics create alternatives to our existence, or will it uphold the extractivist capital logic done for so many years by Western European modernity are some of the questions that we try to unpack through research case studies.
The project started in February 2020 just before the pandemic was announced, and since then, we have continued to work, learning how to co-exist under our new living conditions. The current conditions transformed the project into much more than the original plan. It became an examination of our own existence, the way we walk with in the world, how we practice inter-dependence, and stretch existing institutional structures through which we as practitioners navigate.
Throughout the year we have made the research happening through our online journal which follows works and research in progress. This journal has served as a tool in responding to crises within the contexts we are caring with.
Since April 2020 due to pandemic we have employed strategy dig where you stand and we have working with fifteen researchers across Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Serbia, Slovenia, and China. The research inquiry has been developed trying to listen local urgencies and learn from them.
They are writers, anthropologists, artists, architects, and activists, and we will continue to work into this year as well. Acknowledging and reflecting on our previous way of working, we have employed a dig where you stand strategy, where a number of case studies had been formulated and from here, local research has been conducted.
This symposium will share thinking with and walking with or partners cells, as well as researchers through six days symposium that will be available through live stream.
A tool kit created together with researchers and cells that would allow for deep listening with all five senses, challenging visual aspects and presence through Zoom.
Researchers and cells were invited to provide tools for listening, seeing, smelling, touching, and tasting that could overcome our physical distance. Pls experience tool kit through: http://wcscd.com/. Tool Kit should allow us to grasp physicality of places we will be sharing research from.
“要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下”国际研讨会是该研究项目的第一次公开亮相，也是首次呈现我们在行进中建立的关系和互相依存的工作方式。从中国到巴尔干半岛、从埃塞俄比亚到中亚，“要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下”项目的核心是在不同语境中就彼此共通的问题发出原本被淹没的声音。不同的个人、组织和机构仿若一枚枚有机研究“细胞”，通过合作建立知识共性，一种新型的亲密形式将由此浮现，而其参与者也将联手呈现一种全新的合作形式。
项目中所涉及到的这些地区，很多都位于全球经济的边缘，在全球力量的利益范围中，这些地区因其带来的地缘政治冲突而重获瞩目。新的视线和地缘政治可以为我们的现状另辟蹊径吗？抑或是，它将继续遵循已由西欧现代性推行多年的开采主义资本逻辑？这些是我们尝试通过案例研究去打开的问题。
“要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下”项目始于2020年2月，在疫情期间启动。从那时起，我们持续学习如何在全新的生存条件下共存并展开工作。现实状况使得这一项目发生转变，不仅限于对上述话题的研究。它同时成为我们对自身存在的审视，我们如何行走于世，如何实践相互依存，以及作为从业者如何扩展现有的制度结构的考验。
在项目进行了一年的时间里，我们一起经历了许多地方的社会动荡。有研究者感染新冠（幸已康复），埃塞俄比亚的内战在2020年11月进一步升级，我们的同事失去职位，我们的合作者被砍掉资金。这个项目扩展了我们的共情能力，我们的耐力每天都在受到挑战。尽管如此，我们仍将继续同行。研究悄无声息地继续进行，我们认识到了在这种被迫分离的过程中需要团结在一起，共创一些内容的重要性。
一年来，我们通过线上期刊的形式发布正在进行的工作和研究。这系列线上期刊已成为在我们所关心的语境中应对危机的工具。
自2020年4月以来，由于疫情全球大流行，我们采用了深入发掘所在地的方式，与来自哈萨克斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦、埃塞俄比亚、塞尔维亚、斯洛文尼亚和中国的15名研究人员合作，包含作家、人类学家、艺术家、建筑师和社会活动家等。研究的话题是从尝试去倾听当地的紧急事务并从中学习，制定一些案例研究，进而发展。
本次国际研讨会将通过为期六天的专题讨论，与合作“细胞”们及研究者展开交流，并进行直播。直播将通过由研究者和“细胞”共同创造的工具包进行，工具包提供五种官感深度聆听的体验，包括听觉、视觉、嗅觉、触觉和味觉，以超越我们的物理距离，挑战Zoom平台惯有的视觉和呈现。工具包能使我们体验到将要分享研究之地的物理性质，点击这里 体验。
March 22nd
11am – 13:30 pm CET
Introduction - an introduction to the project and its mode of working during the pandemic as a proposition towards interdependence by Biljana Ciric and Zdenka Badovinac
Screening of the film Awra Amba E(UTOPIA) by Salem Mekuria
About seventy years ago, Zumra Nuru was born into a traditional agrarian Muslim family in a remote village in Northern Ethiopia, near Awra Amba. He never went to school. As a child he started questioning why things were as unequal and unjust as he observed life in his village to be. He dreamt of a society where people could live in peace and full equality regardless of who they were. Fifty years ago, that dream materialized into what is now known as Awra Amba, a community based on true equality in all aspects of life and where religion is a private affair. This story introduces a revolutionary society thriving in the heart of a very conservative Ethiopia. With interviews and compelling scenes of the village and its people, Awra Amba’s (E)utopia will give us a glimpse into their unique lifestyle.
Presentations:
Robel Temesgen
The Addis Newspaper
Marija Glavas
THE CULTURAL INTERWEAVING OF CHINA AND THE BALKANS
March 23rd
11am – 13:00 pm CET
Disjointed Images from Afar and Fragmented Stories in Proximity
This day of presentations resist the single narrative of transformation that the regions we are engaging with are undergoing and propose to capture and unfold the personal and collective memories we share in our current moment, as well as the path we create for the future.
Moderator: Nikita Choi
Presentations:
Alex Ulko
Seeing the Invisible: Documenting and Interpreting China’s Cultural Presence in Uzbekistan
Hu Yun
Untitled
Salem Mekuria
Special and Other Memories:Maskal Square’s contribution
March 25th
11am – 13:00 pm CET
Alternatives to new forms of geo-political and economical administration of localities and people: archiving, reacting, creating.
Day three panel will focus on the three study cases: Addis Ababa Riverbank project; Zijin Bor Mining complex and the infrastructure throughout the Balkan region; Lake Balkhash and its geo-political positions and water management.
Local research conducted through the As you go project reveals the complexities of the local context, giving insight to the new positions geographies of the margins can take in this new era unfolding before us.
Moderator: Larys Frogier
Presentations:
Jelica Jovanovic
Infrastructuring the Region. Materiality and Intangibility of the New Silk Road in Serbia
Sinkneh Eshetu, Berhanu, Aziza Abdul Fetah
The Danger of Ambition and Neglect: The Case of Beautifying Sheger Project
Aigerim Kapar
The many secret scapes of Balkhash Lake: a travelogue of the crossboundary contexts, communities and ecosystem
March 26th
11am – 13:00pm CET
Situated Research, Situated Practices
This day of the symposium utilises Donna Haraway’s 1988 essay: Situated knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective as its point of departure. Borrowing from Haraway’s title, this panel will further explore the situatedness within their local contexts and the practices embedded.
Moderator: Aigerim Kapar
Presentations:
Robert Bobnic and Kaja Kraner
Bor is burning: From mining to data mining in socialist Yugoslavia
Yabebal Fantaye
Astrobus-Ethiopia: A dynamic response to fast changing challenges and opportunities
Jasphy Zheng
Stories from the Room
March 30th
11am – 13:00pm CET
The importance of Ports
The panel explores complexities of Maritime Road ancient and current and its narrative created by different agents. The presentations will look at the different ports within in China coastal cities and histories told through museological display of public museums. Presentation by Nielson will look at the Piraeus, Kolkata and Valparaiso ports and its geo-political importance through infrostructure and technology built in period from 2012 to 2017.
Moderator: Sinkneh Eshetu
Presentations:
Nikita Choi
Performativity of a Guarded Globalization - How is the Maritime Silk Road represented in China’s Public Museums?
Brett Neilson
Logistical Worlds, or, Research before the Pandemic
March 31st
11am – 13:00pm CET
How we work together: a round table discussion of partner cells: Zdenka Badovinac, Aigerim Kapar, Robel Temesgen, Sinkneh Eshetu, Biljana Ciric, Dragan Stojmenovic, Nikita Choi
Final last day of symposium will be discussion between partner cells and their modes of working based of interdependence, right to opacity and horizontality.
For full information about the symposium and speaker’s presentations, please visit: http://wcscd.com/index.php/2021/03/02/as-you-go-roads-under-your-feet-towards-the-new-future-symposium/
3月22日，周一
北京时间 18:00-20:30
比利安娜·思瑞克和兹登卡·巴多维纳克介绍该项目及其在疫情全球大流行期间促进相互依存的工作方式。
电影放映：
《Awra Amba E（乌托邦）》
撒勒姆·梅库利亚
大约七十年前，Zumra Nuru出生在埃塞俄比亚北部靠近Awra Amba的偏远村庄里，一个传统的穆斯林农家，他从未上过学。当他还是个孩子的时候，他观察着村子里的生活，他开始质疑为什么事情是不平等和不公正的，他梦想着一个任何人都可以生活于和平和完全平等的社会。五十年前，这个梦想实现了，变成了现在所知的 Awra Amba，各方面真正平等的社会，宗教是个人的事。这个故事讲述了在非常保守的埃塞俄比亚腹地，一个革命社会的繁荣。通过对这个村庄和村民的采访以及迷人的场景，Awra Amba的（乌）托邦让我们一瞥他们独特的生活方式。
主题演讲：
亚的斯报
罗贝尔·特梅斯根
中国与巴尔干半岛的文化交织
玛莉嘉·格拉瓦什
3月23日，周二
北京时间 18:00-20:00
远方的杂乱图像和附近的破碎故事
由蔡影茜主持，这一天的研讨会拒绝用单一叙事来描述“要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下”项目所涉及的地区正在经历的变革。由艺术家和电影人撒勒姆·梅库利亚，胡昀和亚力克斯·乌尔克共同呈现，旨在捕捉和展现我们在当下的个人记忆和集体记忆，以更好地实现我们为未来创造的道路。
主持人：蔡影茜
主题演讲：
看见不可见：记录和转译中国在乌孜别克斯坦的文化呈现
亚力克斯·乌尔克
无题
胡昀
另外的特别记忆：梅斯克尔广场广场的贡献
撒勒姆·梅库利亚
3月25日，周四
北京时间 18:00-20:00
新型的地方、人民地缘政治和经济管理形式的替代方案：
归档、反应、创造
由上海外滩美术馆的拉瑞斯·弗洛乔、耶利卡·约万诺维奇和研究小组Artcom、 辛克内·埃什图、 Berhanu和阿齐扎·阿卜杜勒·菲塔共同召集，第三天的话题将集中讨论三个研究案例：紫金波尔矿业集团和整个巴尔干地区的基础设施；巴尔喀什湖及其地缘政治地位和水资源管理；以及亚的斯亚贝巴河岸项目。通过"要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下"项目进行的当地研究揭示了当地环境的复杂性，从而深入了解了边缘地区在展现在我们面前的新时期中可以采取的新立场。
主持人：拉瑞斯·弗洛乔
主题演讲：
区域基础设施：塞尔维亚新丝绸之路的物质性和无形性
耶利卡·约万诺维奇
野心和忽视的危险：关于舍格尔美化工程（Beautifying Sheger Project）
辛克内·埃什图，Berhanu，阿齐扎·阿卜杜勒·菲塔
巴尔喀什湖的秘密景观：跨界语境、社区和生态系统的游记
艾格里姆·卡帕
3月26日，周五
北京时间 18:00-20:00
情境研究，情境实践
由Artcom研究小组的阿加里姆·卡帕主持。以唐娜·哈拉维（Donna Haraway）于1988年撰写的文章《情境化知识：女性主义中的科学问题与局部视角的优势》作为出发点，本次讨论将与罗伯特·波布尼克和卡亚·克雷纳，太空巴士（Astrobus） 和艺术家郑亦然一起，进一步探索他们所在当地的情境和融于其中的实践。
主持人：阿加里姆·卡帕
主题演讲：
博尔正在燃烧：从挖矿到数据挖矿在社会主义南斯拉夫
罗伯特·波布尼克和卡亚·克雷纳
埃塞俄比亚的太空巴士：对快速变化的挑战和机遇的动态反应
亚贝巴尔·范塔耶
部屋物语
郑亦然
3月30日，周二
北京时间 18:00-20:00
港口的重要性
本次讨论由辛克内·埃什图，时代美术馆策展人蔡影茜和西悉尼大学的布雷特·尼尔森共同主持，探讨了海路在过去和当下的复杂性，以及不同中间人透过多种文化结构所讲述的故事。从中国沿海城市的不同港口，到比雷埃夫斯、加尔各答和瓦尔帕莱索的港口，这些演讲将通过技术和基础设施的嵌入，展开谈论港口及其地缘政治的重要性。
主持人：辛克内·埃什图
主题演讲：
展演“设防的全球化”——中国的公共博物馆如何呈现海上丝绸之路？
蔡影茜
物流的世界，或，关于疫情全球大流行前的研究
布雷特·尼尔森
3月31日，周三
北京时间 18:00-20:00
我们如何一起工作：合作者“细胞”的圆桌讨论
参与者：
兹登卡·巴多维那茨，爱格丽·卡帕尔，罗贝尔·特梅斯根，辛克内·埃什图，比利安娜·思瑞克，德拉甘·斯托梅诺维奇，蔡影茜
研讨会的最后一天将讨论合作者“细胞”与其基于相互依存、不透明和水平的工作模式。
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“As you go…roads under your feet, towards the new future” is initiated and conceived by Biljana Ciric. The inquiry and research cells include What Could Should Curating Do (Belgrade), Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Guangdong Times Museum (Guangzhou), ArtCom (Astana), Robel Temesgen and Sinkneh Eshetu (Addis Ababa), and The Public Library (Bor).
The first stage of the project has been supported by the Foundation for Arts Initiatives, CURTAIN (Rockbund Art Museum), Austrian Cultural Forum, Curatorial Practice (Monash University Art, Design and Architecture), and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
“要旅行，先修路。通往未来的路在你脚下”项目由比利安娜·思瑞克发起和构想。参与的研究“细胞”包括： 教育平台“策展能/该做什么”（贝尔格莱德）、现代艺术画廊（卢布尔雅那）、上海外滩美术馆（上海）、广东时代美术馆（广州）、ArtCom（阿斯塔纳）、博尔公共图书馆（塞尔维亚）、研究员罗贝尔·特梅斯根和辛克·埃谢图（亚的斯亚贝巴）等。
目第一阶段获得纽约艺术计划基金会（Foundation for Arts Initiatives）、“帘幕”（上海外滩美术馆）、奥地利文化中心、策展实践项目（莫纳什大学艺术、设计与建筑学院）和澳大利亚政府研究培训项目奖学金的支持。
