Clare Butcher

Cape Malay Curry and Cargo Thoughts


Visningsrommet USF
USF Verftet, Georgenes Verft 12, Bergen Map

At 21:00

Cape Malay Curry is served.

Sign up for the evening: marie[at]v-o-l-t.no Limited space available.

A friend once described the artistic process to me as a combination between long and short durées – cargo ships and speed boats. The former are the time-taking, life investments which go slowly but surely along: continuous, somewhat coherent, and committed. The latter are the flights of fancy, the quick trips for supplies – forming connections with other themes, ideas and places, but always returning to sustain the bigger project. We all have baggage (be it lost in transit or the reason for overweight luggage charges).

By way of introduction to a conversation on the theme of CARGO in Maia Urstad’s exhibition, curator Clare Butcher will talk about the value of waiting beside the conveyor belt, which may or may not return the precious objects we loaded on board in the very beginning.

Clare Butcher

Clare Butcher is a curator and writer. She currently teaches in Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is a member of the School of Missing Studies, Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Recently she conducted an MFA at the Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town, South Africa and before that, participated in the de Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, 2009.


Volt is funded by the City of Bergen and the Arts Council Norway.

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