Workshop by Karel Op ’t Eynde and Camille Van Meenen
with Curatorial Studies, KASK & Conservatorium
In this workshop, the CS participants engaged with the potential of intimacy and anecdotal knowledges as tools for working together in the context of their studies. Through a process of gathering, sharing, reflecting and publishing, participants were invited to build a tangible toolbox in the shape of a publication, archiving intimate methodologies and tactics for collective governance.
Participants contributed notes, sources, case studies, objects, and ephemera from their own practice or experience. These were workshopped and assembled into a collaboratively edited toolbox; a resource that they can lean on during their Curatorial Studies trajectory and beyond.
Starting from the premise that curating is not only a public act, but also an emotional and relational one, the workshop considers how informal and often invisible aspects of curatorial work can be acknowledged and valued.
Karel Op ‘t Eynde was invited by Komplot Curator Camille Van Meenen to organise this workshop together. The two met during the Curatorial Studies programme and have initiated many collaborative projects. Together with Daniel De Decker, they are the founders of curatorial collective CASTOR, a nomadic platform focused on a decentralised form of exhibition making, attempting to build bridges between different linguistic and cultural communities in Belgium.
Karel Op ‘t Eynde is a curator, writer and art worker based in Brussels (BE). His work mainly focuses on practices of gathering, situated knowledges and learning through doing. Often working collaboratively, his projects intersect curating, writing and publishing. He currently holds the position of curator at Jester (BE) and has initiated several curatorial projects with a focus on artistic development and cross-disciplinary methods. In addition to his role as curator and writer, he is co-founder of Brussels based art collective CASTOR.