Teddy and The Curator

Bogdan Szyber, PhD candidate at Uniarts, is one of the curators for Unconditional Love – a conference about artistic research in conjunction to the annual meeting for Society for Artistic Research.

He will also, together with the dog Teddy, perform a pastiche of Joseph Beuys’ performance from 1965: How to explain art to a dead hare.

“Unconditional Love will take the participants from on-site research into how caring and attention is expressed in the practice of artistic research. We will explore open access, auditing, peer-reviewing and critique, and the tug of war between science, magic and art on the issue of love.”// SAR newsletter February 2015

Bogdan Szyber, active in performance and site-specific art as well as a PhD student at Uniarts, is one of the curators of Unconditional Love, this year’s spring meeting of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR). Unconditional Love is organized by SAR in partnership with University of the ArtsLondon, and will be held at the Chelsea College of Arts in London April 30-May 1. On May 2 SARwill hold their annual meeting.

Szyber’s own contribution to the conference is called Rose–tinted spectaclesyndrome or How to explain Unconditional Love to a living dog  and he also brings two Swedish assistants:

• Tom Stone, a magician who has worked in research at the Choice BlindnessLab at Lund University,
• Malena Ivarsson, senior lecturer in psychology at Södertörn University, who will tell you what happens to us in the infatuation phase of love, when weare totally absorbed by another creature, when our brains are filled by a more or less toxic mix of very specific neurotransmitters.