Alexander Hahn to participate in seminar on Curatorial Practice

Swiss electronic media artist, Alexander Hahn will be participating in the seminar moderated by Bangalore-based artist and curator, Anil Kumar at the United Art Fair. [dated September 2012]

'Curatorial Practice & its Intervention in Artistic Practice and Theory’
A seminar presented by The United Art Fair with the support of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council

29 September 2012 / Pragati Maidan, New Delhi 

Swiss electronic media artist, Alexander Hahn will be participating in the discussion moderated by Bangalore-based artist and curator, Anil Kumar. 
Date: 29 September 2012 
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm 
Venue: The United Art Fair Seminar Hall 
Entry: As per United Art Fair rules 

Beside Alexander Hahn and Anil Kumar other panelists include Johny ML, Head Curator, United Art Fair and the artist Chintan Upadhyay. The seminar aims to address current questions about curation. Whether curation acts as an ‘alibi’ to theoretical practice of visual culture is debatable. Does it clamor for an ‘independent identity’ of its own, as a separate stream from and akin to artistic practice and theory? The discourse continues as the panelists aim to delve into whether site-specificity of an artwork and context-specificity of curation have a possible meeting point, real or metaphorical?

Swiss-born Alexander Hahn is in India on a three-month residency. A pioneering electronic media artist who lives and works in New York and Zurich, Hahn is a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. His videos, installations and computer prints have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH, Museum der Moderne Salzburg/AT, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara/IT, National Art Museum of China, Beijing/CN. Hahn is the recipient of the following awards: New York State Council on the Arts Grant, Zurich Work Award, Cultural Prize of St. Gallen, and the Swiss Federal Grant.