The Norwegian Association of Curators was has been given funding by the Arts Council Norway to explore the role of the curator through a series of talks/lectures. The series aims to explore different typologies of curatorial practice and to link the visit to relevant art events in place the talk takes place in Norway.

The lecture series has been compiled by Milena Hoegsberg, Natalie Hope O’Donnell and Leif Magne Tangen.

Natasha Marie Llorens’ lecture is the third lecture in a series on different typologies of curatorial practice. Natasha Marie Llorens will talk about curatorial pedagogy in three ways: departing from Mary Walling Blackburn’s text ‘XOXO Insanity, Institution’ in e-flux journal #26 (June 2011), she will speak about the problem of space for risk in art institutions generally; via Authority Figures, a practical curating course Llorens taught at the New School in New York, she will speak about how to motivate students to take more risks with curating; and collaboration as curatorial pedagogy, through her co-curated exhibition Failing to Levitate, which was a project focused on risk and failure.

Video documentation of the talk.

Natasha Marie Llorens is a curator, writer and educator based in New York. She is a graduate of CCS Bard and a PhD candidate at Columbia University.