++++ Lionel Bovier is a freelance curator and writer based in Geneva. An Associate Curator at Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, in Grenoble since 1999, he is also the co-founder and director of JRP Editions, an independent publishing company in Geneva. He recently published a survey of the Swiss art scene ('Across', Skira/Seuil 2001) and among his recent exhibition projects are 'Timewave Zero/The Politics of Ecstasy' (Grazer Kunstverein, Steirischer Herbst 2001, together with Jean-Michel Wicker) and the retrospective of Jack Goldstein at Le Magasin (together with Yves Aupetitallot and Fareed Armaly).

++++ CURATORIAL METHODOLOGIES, ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND RELATIVE INDEPENDENCE / The lecture recalls the absence of any clear definition as well as legal or economic grounds for curatorial practice. And hence it questions the foundation of such a work with regard to artistic practice and writing in the second half of twentieth century art history. It then re-asserts independence in terms of methodological possibilities offered to curators, presenting personal projects which developed from issues such as the role of archives, the Fluxus notion of the ‘score’ and ‘recessive history’.