A live online event bringing together the opening of Compost. Kathrin Böhm: Turning the Heap at The Showroom and the launch of PARSE journal issue 13: On the Question of Exhibition, the latest journal issue from PARSE, an online artistic research publishing platform at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing arts, University of Gothenburg.

Joining from The Showroom were: Kathrin Böhm, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Lily Hall
Joining from PARSE were: Nick Aikens, Jyoti Mistry and Mick Wilson

A central contribution in the new issue of PARSE is a discussion between artist Kathrin Böhm, Yolande van der Heide, Exhibitions Curator at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Gavin Wade, Director of Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Franciska Zólyom, Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig; framed in response to Böhm’s use of exhibition across both art and non-art contexts. This curatorial-cum-editorial dialogue uses the methodology of composting as a process of collaborative reflection. Turning to possible future strategies of exhibition-making, Böhm reflects on her exhibitonary practice. The conversation highlights Böhm’s experience and tactics of a ‘one-to-one’ scale that disrupts spectatorship and collides making and showing in the same moment.

Schedule

16.30-16.35 Welcome from The Showroom
16.35-17.00 Introduction from Jyoti Mistry and Nick Aikens, PARSE journal
17.00-17.05 Short break
17.05-17.25 Video tour of Compost at The Showroom led by Kathrin Böhm
17.25-17.40 Reflections on usership as instituting gesture, led by Elvira Dyangani Ose
17.40-18.00 Conversation between Mick Wilson, editor of On the Question of Exhibition and Kathrin Böhm
18.00-18.15 Q&A
18.15-18.30 Open zoom room and live feed video to Compost at The Showroom

The event began with an introduction from Lily Hall, Curator at The Showroom, followed by an introductory exchange between Jyoti Mistry and Nick Aikens, co-editors of On the Question of Exhibition, followed by a video tour of Compost at The Showroom led by Kathrin Böhm, in which she explained the processes of piling-up, filing and fertilising. Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of The Showroom, then explored the exhibition and its modes of usership in relation to institution-building as well as the interconnected web of relations between of The Showroom and Kathrin Böhm’s practice over the years; and finally as co-editor of On the Question of Exhibition, Mick Wilson reflected with Böhm on her exhibitionary strategies. There was time for questions and answers at the end, moderated between Lily and Kathrin, followed by an open zoom room with live-feed to the exhibition space at The Showroom.