In de tweede aflevering van Talking Heads spraken we met ruangrupa, het curatorencollectief van de vorige editie van sonsbeek (2016) en nu curatoren van documenta 15 (2022). Zoals ook in de vorige aflevering werd het een open uitwisseling van gedachten: over ruangrupa’s curatoriële werkwijze die geworteld is in experiment, collectiviteit en vertrouwen en over de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van archieven. Met: Antonia Alampi, Aude Mgba, Krista Jantowski, Gesyada Siregar, Farid Rakun en reinaart vanhoe.
“Working with ruangrupa and working collectively is an unlearning process because it’s not a professional setting, it’s not that rigid structure. Sometimes you don’t really know what to do because the idea is to make initiative, the idea is to be given room to fail. You are given room to experiment and to fail. And I think that idea keeps on resonating, even up until now, with Good School. Because making an institution is also a form of art practice, let’s say. And making an institution can also be an experiment, in where we can fail, where it hasn’t become a luxury to fail, and to have people trusting you, allowing you to have that room and space.”
— Gesyada Siregar