Lecture by Clare Butcher

27.09.2011

One of Clare Butcher’s central research stranded deals with the ways in which contemporary art apprehends the phenomena of nationalism and historicisation of the recent past. Her practice looks for frameworks to activate affective archives of modern exhibition history.

Butcher was developing a residency programme at this time based in Cape Town to begin in 2012. In this context she is interested in the neighborly, the domestic, the particular, isolation and conversation: issues always brought to the fore when taking up residence somewhere, and are of course, imperative in processes of knowledge building and exchange within a supposedly globalized art sphere.

Clare Butcher studied Art History, Public Culture and African Studies at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) before she participated at the Curatorial Programme of De Appel arts centre (Amsterdam, Netherlands). In 2008 and again 2010, she worked as a guest curator at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands). Since the start of 2010 she has been a Fellow in Curatorship and Archive at the Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Butcher also refers to herself as a cooking editor and art-critic.

The lecture will be held in English