088 Issue # 11/11 : PublIc Issues biograPhies Minerva Cuev<strong>as</strong> is an artist whose work is characterised by socially engaged and site-specific actions that take place in a range of settings, from public space through museums to the Internet. Her works are always b<strong>as</strong>ed on in-depth critical research, in her endeavour to examine the potential of in- formal and alternative economies. Her works provide viewers with an insight into the complexities of the economic and political organisation of the social sphere and its structures. She lives and works in Mexico City. www.minervacuev<strong>as</strong>.org Selma Dubach studied art history, media studies, and business administration in Bern. Since 2010, she h<strong>as</strong> worked <strong>as</strong> a research <strong>as</strong>sistant at IFCAR Institute for Contemporary Art Re-search at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), before which she held a position at the Institute for Art History at Bern University. In addition to curating and co-curating various projects, she h<strong>as</strong> written numerous articles and texts for catalogues. Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist practicing and teaching in Mumbai. She is a founding member of the Collective Research Initiatives Trust, which is committed to urbanism research and practice. She is also a partner with RRarchitecture101, a design practice. She is interested in tactical urban conditions and design interventions. Her works include, among others, studies of post-industrial landscapes and housing types in Mumbai, a multimedia novel on a semifictional history of Mumbai's urbanism, a story-map installation about Mumbai's mill lands, and other urban design projects. Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates contexts for interaction in public spheres. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work, Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production, and creates new public (meeting-)spaces or remodels existing ones. To achieve this, she often works closely with artists, designers, architects, software developers, governments, and citizens. She regularly lectures on topics such <strong>as</strong> urban renewal, civic participation, and cultural production. www.jeanneworks.net Jürgen Krusche is a researcher and publicist who focuses on urbanism and public space in the intercultural exchange between Europe, China, and Japan. He h<strong>as</strong> worked at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2001, and from 2007 to 2011 headed the research project "Taking to the Streets: The Street <strong>as</strong> Public Space Exemplified by Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo and Zurich" at the Faculty of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He also works <strong>as</strong> a freelance photographer. Li Zhenhua is a writer, curator, producer, and artist living in Beijing/Shanghai and Zurich. He is the founder of Laboratory Art Beijing (www.bjartlab.com) and the Mustard Seed garden (www.msgproduction.com). In 2010, he served <strong>as</strong> chief planner of the Shanghai eART Festival. He h<strong>as</strong> delivered numerous talks and presentations at new media art symposia, <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> at leading galleries and museum spaces around the world. Derya Özkan studied architecture and sociology before earning a Ph.D. degree in Visual and Cultural Studies. She currently works at the Institute of European Ethnology at the University of Munich. Her research focuses on the politics of space, popular culture, consumption, contemporary art, informal urbanism, migration, and the postcolonial city. In the fall of 2011, she will start working on a research project entitled "From Oriental to the 'cool' City. Changing Imaginations of Istanbul, Cultural Production and the Production of Urban Space" <strong>as</strong> an Emmy Noether Fellow of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemein- schaft). Siri Peyer is a Zurich-b<strong>as</strong>ed curator. She w<strong>as</strong> recently appointed research <strong>as</strong>sistant at at Kunstmuseum Thun. From 2008 to 2011, she served <strong>as</strong> an <strong>as</strong>sistant on the Postgraduate Pro- gramme in Curating at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS), where she co-organised the non-profit White Space (www.whitespace.ch). Previously, she w<strong>as</strong> curatorial <strong>as</strong>sistant at the Shedhalle Zurich from 2008 to 2009. She h<strong>as</strong> curated or co-curated several exhibitions and projects. Oda Projesi is an artist collective b<strong>as</strong>ed in Istanbul; its members are Özge Açıkkol, Güne Sav<strong>as</strong>¸, and Seçil Yersel, who turned their collaboration into an art project in 2000. From 2000, their Galata-b<strong>as</strong>ed studio functioned <strong>as</strong> a non-profit independent space, hosting nearly 30 collaborative projects and actions up until 2005, when Oda Projesi w<strong>as</strong> evicted from the apartment following the area's ongoing gentrification. Oda Projesi h<strong>as</strong> since been a mobile operation, one committed to to raising questions on the production of space and place, and creating social relationship models by using different media like radio stations, books, postcards, newspapers and by depending on the creativity of the inhabitants of the city of Istanbul. Christoph Schenker is Professor ZFH of Philosophy of Art and Contemporary Art at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2005, he h<strong>as</strong> been head of the newly founded Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), part of the ZHdK Department of Art and Media. His main research fields are artistic re- search <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> art and the public sphere. www.ifcar.ch Pr<strong>as</strong>ad Shetty is an urbanist b<strong>as</strong>ed in Mumbai. He studied archi- tecture and urban management. His work involves research on issues related to contemporary Indian urbanism, including ar- chitectural practices, post-liberalization developments, entrepreneurial practices, cultural dimensions of property, and investigations into mapping processes. He is a founding member of the Collective Research Initiatives Trust, a re- search-b<strong>as</strong>ed urban practice, and he also teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai. Richard Wolff Dr. sc. nat. ETH, is an urbanist, researcher, campaign leader, organizer, moderator, and activist. He grew up in Switzerland and Venezuela, studied in Zurich and London, and h<strong>as</strong> been a visiting lecturer in the USA. He is a partner of INURA Zürich Institute for Urban Development Issues, a lecturer at the Center for Urban Landscape of the School of Architecture at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and co-head of the International Network for Urban Research and Action INURA. He specializes in urban development, living, traffic, planning, and the environment. He h<strong>as</strong> been a member of Zurich municipal council since 2010.
089 Issue # 11/11 : PublIc Issues ONcurating.org On-Curating.org is an independent international web-journal focusing on questions around curatorial practise and theory. Publisher Dorothee Richter Web and Graphic Design Concept Michel Fernández Graphic Design Eleventh Issue Jeannine Herrmann Eleventh Issue Public Issues Editors Selma Dubach, Christoph Schenker Editorial Office Franz Krähenbühl Administration J<strong>as</strong>mina Courti, Amber Hickey (On-Curating.org) Contributions Minerva Cuev<strong>as</strong>, Rupali Gupte, Jeanne van Heeswijk interviewed by Siri Peyer, Jürgen Krusche, Li Zhenhua, Derya Özkan, Oda Projesi interviewed by Derya Özkan, Pr<strong>as</strong>ad Shetty, Richard Wolff Translations Burke Barrett, creativ-uebersetzungen.de (from German), Ian Barnett (from Spanish), Weina Zhao (from Chinese), Erden Kosova (from Turkish) Proofreading Y<strong>as</strong>min Kiss (German), Mark Kyburz (English), Amber Hickey (revised version) Supported by Supported by the IFCAR Institute for Contemporary Art Research (www.ifcar.ch) and the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ICS Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, both Zurich University of the Arts. Copyright by the authors and the IFCAR
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