INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL SPRING 2015 PROGRAM O4 INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL 1 CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF ICI WELCOME

Forty years ago, Nina Castelli language, visas and other economic factors remain Sundell and Susan Sollins came obstacles to the sharing of knowledge. together to dream up a unique organization—one of the first ever Shared learning and experiences are also generated to focus on the fundamental role of by our exhibitions, which in the past year alone were curators—with a prescient vision of seen in 37 art spaces in 16 countries. A new exhibition, a truly global and collaborative art EN MAS’, curated by Claire Tancons and Krista world. They founded ICI, committed Thompson, debuts this March at CAC New Orleans, to the curatorial field and to making our partner in the project. And we are announcing ICI’s exhibitions accessible around the world. Since then, ICI latest exhibition, Salon de Fleurus, which recreates has grown in its scope following the expansion of the a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s curatorial field, producing exhibitions, publications, and Parisian salon designed as a semi-private salon in Lower events for broad audiences, as well as training programs Manhattan from 1992 to 2013. The exhibition will be and research initiatives for curators. presented internationally with ICI, calling into question one of the main creation myths of Modernism, as one Today more than ever, the curator’s role is central to time capsule within another. art scenes around the world: when connecting artists to one another and to an audience, curators create more As we celebrate ICI’s 40th spring, and continue building than experiences; they support art practice and build a unique organization for a truly global and collaborative communities—through exhibitions, publications, events, art world, we would like to thank everyone who has TABLE OF CONTENTS and by creating art spaces and leading institutions. been a part of the journey—first and foremost all who In turn, by connecting curators in an international have served on ICI’s Board of Trustees over the past 1 Welcome framework for collaboration, ICI expands the support four decades (see a complete list is on page 47). And on 2 Spring/Summer 2015 Calendar structures they create. behalf of all of us at ICI, I want to also thank everyone who makes our programs possible: the curators, artists, EXHIBITIONS This dynamic network keeps growing, one collaboration our collaborators at art spaces around the world, the at a time. ICI programs have already taken place in foundations, and the many individuals who help us carry 4 EN MAS’: Carnival and more than 400 cities and 55 countries since 1975. And the mission. Thank You! Performance Art of the Caribbean this gives ICI a unique international perspective, while 6 Salon de Fleurus remaining connected to the specificities of local art 8 Martha Wilson scenes across the globe. 10 do it 12 Project 35: Volume 2 This spring, we are thrilled to see so many individuals 14 Free Play from ICI’s international network involved in the 56th 15 Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5 Venice Biennale. Chief among them is Okwui Enwezor, Renaud Proch 16 With Hidden Noise this year’s Artistic Director of the Biennale, and the Executive Director 17 Performance Now recipient of ICI’s 2007 Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, who is also featured in a conversation with Terry Smith in our PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH upcoming publication, Talking Contemporary Curating. And dozens of curators, including several Curatorial 18 Curatorial Intensive Intensive Alumni, and artists are part of Enwezor’s 22 Alumni Updates exhibition, and several National Pavilions. 24 40 Years of ICI 26 Research Fellowships This is a sign that ICI thrives as a meaningful force 30 Curator’s Perspective for cultural exchange internationally. And our efforts 32 Curatorial Hub continue: in the coming months, ICI will hold a Curatorial Intensive for the first time in Marrakech, in collaboration NETWORK & ACCESS with Dar al-Ma’mûn; for the second time in Bogota, held entirely in Spanish, in a renewed partnership 34 Online Networks with IDARTES; and in New York in September. These 36 Publications international professional development programs for 38 Limited Editions curators provide new ways to create collaborative 40 Annual Benefit networks, while—critically—also providing unique 43 Support ICI opportunities and access in a world where borders, 47 Thank You 48 Access ICI 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 3 CALENDAR

MARCH Felipe Mujica: Jugador EN MAS’ Project 35 Volume 2 MAY/JUNE CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS With Hidden Noise Como Pelota, Pelota March 6–June 7 January 15–June 8 INTENSIVE February 24–May 3 EVENTS Como Cancha Contemporary Arts Art Gallery, University of EVENTS do it Pasadena Art Center Tuesday, March 24 Center, New Orleans Saint Joseph Curatorial Intensive in May 22–July 31 College of Design Curator’s Perspective: 6:30–8pm New Orleans, LA West Hartford, CT ICI Reception at Fabrica, Marrakech, Morocco KKW Kunst Kraft Werk Pasadena, CA Naomi Beckwith ICI Curatorial Hub 2015 Venice Biennale May 19–25 Leipzig, Germany Tuesday, March 10 New York, NY Free Play With Hidden Noise May 6–10 do it 7–8:30pm January 13–March 6 February 24–May 3 Venice, Italy Curatorial Intensive in EN MAS’ June 27–September 5 NYU Steinhardt EXHIBITIONS The College of Wooster Pasadena Art Center Bogotá, Colombia March 6–June 7 Kunsthal Rotterdam New York, NY Art Museum College of Design ICI at NADA New York June 17–23 Contemporary Arts Rotterdam, The do it Wooster, OH Pasadena, CA May 14–17 Center, New Orleans Netherlands HUB EVENTS February 23–April 3 299 South Street HUB EVENTS New Orleans, LA The Episcopal Academy Harald Szeemann: New York, NY do it & do it (archive) Some Thoughts on Newtown Square, PA Documenta 5 Y.ES Collect Free Play June 19–August 30 Culture and Revolution: February 24–March 20 Curator’s Perspective: Contemporary El April 25– August 3 Napa Valley Museum Dread Scott and Ryan do it & do it (archive) University of Pittsburgh Sam Bardaouil and Till Salvador Art Gallery of Greater Yountville, CA Wong February 13–April 24 Pittsburgh, PA Fellrath Claire Breukel, Simón Victoria Thursday, March 19 Anne & Gordon Samstag Tuesday, June 2 Vega, and Mario Cader- Victoria, BC, Canada With Hidden Noise 6:30–8pm Museum of Art, University Martha Wilson 7–8:30pm Frech June 5–July 27 ICI Curatorial Hub of South Australia February 20–April 30 Hunter College MFA Thursday, May 28 Project 35 Volume 2 University of Southern New York, NY Adelaid, Australia Fales Library, New Campus 6:30–8pm January 15–June 8 Florida Contemporary Art York University; Pratt New York, NY ICI Curatorial Hub Art Gallery, University of Museum Manhattan Gallery New York, NY Saint Joseph Tampa, FL New York, NY Patrons Trip: Garage West Hartford, CT Grand Opening June 9–15 Moscow, Russia

APRIL Domestic Revolution: EXHIBITIONS Martha Wilson JULY/AUGUST do it Project 35 Volume 2 Megan Witko with February 20–April 30 June 27–September 5 August–January EVENTS Alina Bliumis and Ben do it Fales Library, New EVENTS Kunsthal Rotterdam Garage Museum of Kinmont February 23–April 3 York University; Pratt Rotterdam, The Contemporary Art Curator’s Perspective: Tuesday, April 7 The Episcopal Academy Manhattan Gallery Summer Cocktails Netherlands Moscow, Russia Inti Guerrero 6:30–8pm Newtown Square, PA New York, NY July Wednesday, April 8 ICI Curatorial Hub New York, NY do it 7–8:30pm New York, NY do it & do it (archive) Project 35 Volume 2 July 30–August 8 School of Visual Arts February 13–April 24 January 15–June 8 EXHIBITIONS Nuevo Museo de Arte New York, NY A Conversation on Anne & Gordon Samstag Art Gallery, University of Contemporáneo Photography in Ethiopia Museum of Art, University Saint Joseph do it Guatemala City, ICI Conversations: Yinka and Guyana with of South Australia West Hartford, CT May 22–July 31 Guatemala Shonibare Grace Aneiza Ali and Adelaid, Australia KKW Kunst Kraft Werk Wednesday, April 29 Aida Muluneh With Hidden Noise Leipzig, Germany With Hidden Noise James Cohan Gallery Tuesday, April 28 EN MAS’ February 24–May 3 June 5–July 27 New York, NY 6:30–8pm March 6–June 7 Pasadena Art Center do it & do it (archive) University of Southern ICI Curatorial Hub Contemporary Arts College of Design June 19–August 30 Florida Contemporary Art HUB EVENTS New York, NY Center, New Orleans Pasadena, CA Napa Valley Museum Museum New Orleans, LA Yountville, CA Tampa, FL In the Canyon, Revise the Canon: Géraldine Free Play Gourbe April 25–August 3 Thursday, April 2 Art Gallery of Greater 6:30–8pm Victoria ICI Curatorial Hub Victoria, BC, Canada New York, NY 4 EXHIBITIONS EN MAS’ 5 EN MAS’ EN MAS’: CARNIVAL AND PERFORMANCE ART OF THE CARIBBEAN Curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, co-organized with Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans EN MAS’: CARNIVAL AND PERFORMANCE ART OF THE CARIBBEAN is a pioneering exploration of the influences of Carnival on contemporary performance practices in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Conceived around a series of nine commissioned performances realized during the 2014/2015 Caribbean Carnival season

across eight cities in seven different countries, the exhibition considers the connections April 21, 2014, Kingston, Jamaica. Photo: Marvin Bartley , performance, between Carnival and performance, masquerade and social criticism, diaspora and transnationalism.

Taking its title from a pun on “Mas” (short for masquerade

and synonymous with carnival in the English-speaking Actor Boy: Fractal Engagement Caribbean), EN MAS’ considers a history of performance that does not take place on the stage or in the gallery but rather in the streets, addressing not the few but the many. Charles Campbell, EN MAS’ introduces performance art with a focus on

the influence that Carnival and related masquerading Trinidad. , 2014, Port of Spain, CURATORS ARTISTS traditions in and of the Caribbean and its diasporas have had on contemporary performance discourse and Claire Tancons is a curator, writer, and researcher with John Beadle, Charles Campbell, Christophe Chassol, practice, in both the artistic and curatorial realms. Indeed, a focus on Carnival, public ceremonial culture, civic Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke,

EN MAS’ takes into account performance practices that Positions + Power rituals, and popular movements. The Associate Curator Lorraine O’Grady, Ebony Patterson, Cauleen Smith do not trace their genealogy to the European avant– for Prospect.1 New Orleans (2007-9), a curator for the gardes of the early twentieth–century but rather to the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), Guest Curator for CAPE09 BASIC FACTS

experiences of slavery and colonialism through to the Marlon Griffith, ©Marlon James, 2014. (2009), Associate Curator for research for Biennale Bénin mid–nineteenth century, the independence struggles and (2012), and a curator for the Göteborg Biennial (2013), Number of artists: 9 civil right movements of the mid–twentieth century and PUBLICATION Tancons has developed genealogies and methodologies Number of works: selections to be made from the population migrations to and from the former colonial for thinking about and presenting performance—including original commissioned performances, which form the centers for most of the last century. An accompanying publication, co-published by ICI and reclaiming the processional as exhibitionary mode. She basis of the exhibition at CAC New Orleans CAC, and distributed by DAP, will include critical essays has written extensively about Carnival, the carnivalesque, Tour dates: spring 2015–2018 Throughout the 2014/15 Caribbean Carnival season, EN by the exhibition’s curators as well as Shannon Jackson performance and protest in NKA, Small Axe, Third Text, For additional information and dates of availability, MAS’ tracked nine artists as they engaged, transformed, and Kobena Mercer, monographic texts by an array and the e-flux Journal. Tancons was most recently guest contact Alaina Claire Feldman at or critiqued historical and contemporary Caribbean of cultural and art critics, and extensive illustrations. curator for Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival as part [email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 performance practices from Carnival in Santiago de los In addition to the publication, a newly launched of the 2014 BMW Tate Live series at Tate Modern. Caballeros, Port of Spain, Fort-de-France, Kingston, website hosted by ICI offers insights into each artist’s London and Brooklyn, to Junkanoo in Nassau and the performance while tracking the exhibition tour. Krista Thompson is Associate Professor of Art History EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Additional support New Orleans second line—or in their own imaginary at Northwestern University and the author of An Eye is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the cartographies and invented performance traditions. EN MAS’ ON ICI’S WEBSITE for the Tropics (2006). She has written articles in Art Institut français in support of African and Caribbean projects. The resulting newly commissioned works took place Bulletin, Art Journal, American Art, Representations, according to different modes of public address and ICI has created a dedicated online platform to track the The Drama Review, and Small Axe. Exhibitions include The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a multi-disciplinary arts center, financially stable and professionally managed, which is dedicated to audience engagement including semi-private rituals progress of EN MAS’ around the globe. Each artist’s the National Exhibition (NE3) (2006) and Developing the presentation, production, and promotion of the art of our time. It at the margin of the festival celebrations and street performance is represented with detailed images, Blackness: Studio Photographs of “Over the Hill” Nassau expresses its mission by organizing world class curated exhibitions, processions in the midst of the carnival revelry. multimedia, project descriptions, and press. An interactive in the Independence Era (2008) at the National Art performances, and public programs; educating and enlarging audiences for the arts; and encouraging collaboration among diverse stakeholders map charts the nine performances, and the tour as it Gallery of the Bahamas. Her book Shine: The Visual composed of artists, institutions, communities, and supporters throughout travels internationally. Follow us on #enmas. Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice the world. on the intersection of popular photography, performance, and contemporary art in the circum-Caribbean will be published by Duke University Press in 2015. 6 EXHIBITIONS SALON DE FLEURUS 7 SALON DE FLEURUS

SALON DE FLEURUS is a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904–34. It is a project that displays and references a story of modern art’s beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein herself.

It was in Stein’s salon that paintings by Cezanne, ABOUT SALON DE FLEURUS Matisse and Picasso were seen exhibited together for

the first time both by her peers and transatlantic art Salon de Fleurus is an educational institution dedicated Courtesy of Salon de Fleurus. Angeles, 2011. , Metabolic Studio, Los experts who spread the word back home, eventually to assembling, preserving, and exhibiting memories on creating the American narrative of European modern art early modern art. Its permanent exhibit, titled from The familiar today. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, located at 41 Spring Salon De Fleurus Street, New York, was open to the public from 1992— Through 34 painted reproductions exhibited within a 2013. A selection from the Salon’s permanent collection constructed interior, Salon de Fleurus questions where, was part of the Fiction Reconstructed that was shown in why and how certain narratives of modern art originated Ljubljana, Belgrade and Budapest from 2000 to 2002. through the salon structure that first canonized them. In 2002, Salon de Fleurus was included in the Whitney When one looks at Picasso here, they are viewing Biennial, Sydney Biennial, and exhibition Am Anfang Picasso through the lens of Stein. Perhaps then, these der Bevegung stand ein Skandal in the Lenbachhaus reproductions are more significant and tell us more about Munich. Selections from the Salon’s permanent collection history than the original artworks themselves by weaving were also shown at the exhibitions What is Modern Art? fiction into history and leaving space to contemplate and (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2006),The Making of reconsider the past. Americans (James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York) and Les Fleurs Americaines (Le Plateau, From 1992 to 2013 Salon de Fleurus existed as a semi- Paris, 2012). In 2011, the Metabolic Studio (Los Angeles) private salon in lower Manhattan. It has appeared in opened another version of the Salon de Fleurus, with a fragments in Beirut, Paris and Los Angeles and will now collection titled Portraits and Prayers that more closely be touring as a complete project by ICI. The exhibition resembles the early twentieth century Paris Salon and contains painting reproductions as well as a library traveled to Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, 2014. of publications, and training video for a “doorman” or raconteur to best evoke the story of the salon to visitors. BASIC FACTS Art spaces are invited to source local details such as furniture, decorations, and objects that further relate Number of works: 34 paintings and a small, curated to early modernity, and to organize readings, talks, library of related publications screenings and events that use the salon as a forum Space required: approximately 400 square feet, or a for discussing diverging art historical narratives. An similarly constructed interior space additional PDF booklet including press from the Salon’s Tour dates: Fall 2015 through December 2018 20-year history and images of the full archive will also be For additional information and dates of availability, available for circulation. contact Alaina Claire Feldman at

[email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 1992-2013. Courtesy of Salon de Fleurus. York, New , installation view, Salon De Fleurus 8 EXHIBITIONS MARTHA WILSON 9 MARTHA

WILSON , Participant Inc., 2015.

Curated by Peter Dykhuis

Martha Wilson’s 40-year career encapsulates the key debates in feminist and socially Performing Franklin Furnace Observations of Predations in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal. Zira, Lecture by Dr. A Observations of Predations in Humans: engaged practices, wherein identity and positioning are not just self-defined or projected

but also negotiated, disputed, and constantly reimagined. The complex nature of Alfieri, Amanda Coco Fusco, Wilson’s work encompasses her activities as an artist since the early 1970s, her position as the director of Franklin Furnace, and her music collaborations in DISBAND. , Written into and out of art history according to the PERFORMING FRANKLIN FURNACE theories and convictions of the time, Martha Wilson first gained attention in 1973 through Lucy R. Lippard, who From February 26 to March 1, Participant Inc. hosted contextualized her early work within the parameters a series of performances organized by Martha Wilson of conceptual practice, and among other women artist and ICI to coincide with the final presentation of the contemporaries. A year later, Judy Chicago denounced exhibition Martha Wilson in New York. The series Performing Franklin Furnace Wilson after a performance she presented at the Feminist captured the spirit of Franklin Furnace as a physical Art Program at CalArts for “irresponsible demagoguery.” space through a four-day series of screenings and live

She has been regarded by many as prefiguring Judith works, including performances by Michael Smith (who , Performing Franklin Furnace, Participant Inc., 2015. Butler’s ideas on gender performativity through her re-created a version of Baby Ikki, presented at Franklin

practice, and in the words of art critic Holland Cotter, she Furnace in 1978), Coco Fusco (a Franklin Furnace alum Baby Ikki was described as one of “the half-dozen most important who performed A Lecture by Dr. Zira, a recent work), people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” and an evening of performances in-progress hosted by Clifford Owens and inspired by typical Sunday events at Mike Smith, Martha Wilson and clown performer at Participant Inc., 2015. Responding to the wide scope of Wilson’s career, Peter Franklin Furnace. Dykhuis has assembled a diverse collection of works in this retrospective, which is intended as a flexible, Franklin Furnace serves the local, national and modular, and collaborative exhibition. Curators at each international community of activist artists—artists who presenting institution collaborate directly with the artist have addressed urgent subjects such as war, poverty, to select works from the overlapping stages of Wilson’s disease, racism, sexism, and homophobia. In 1976, career. Selections include examples of her conceptually artist Martha Wilson founded Franklin Furnace in based performances, videos, and photo-texts, or focus Lower Manhattan as a primary source for producing on Franklin Furnace, an arts organization founded by and mediating works vulnerable to neglect due to lack Wilson to support the preservation and advocacy for the of institutional support, ephemeral nature, or politically production of avant-garde, ephemeral, and alternative unpopular content. Until 1996, when it moved online to forms of art. Wilson has been working with curators of its current digital platform, Franklin Furnace occupied a presenting institutions to further explore ways in which Tribeca storefront space that presented historical and identity and contested histories can be shown in the contemporary exhibitions of artists’ books as well as context of their local constituencies and according to temporary installations and performance art to the public. each venue’s programming priorities. In some cases,

Wilson has selected works from the museum’s collection 2012. Glenside, PA, Art Gallery, Arcadia University at or worked with people in the community to develop an exhibition that explores the nature of visibility, or what

feminism means now, or the role of the activist today. Martha Wilson Installation view of 10 EXHIBITIONS DO IT 11 DO IT Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist What would happen if an exhibition never stopped? Since it began in 1993, with this question being asked by Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, DO IT has become the longest-running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever happen—constantly generating new versions of itself. Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014. Architect: Andreas Architect: Art, 2014. Garage Museum of Contemporary Moscow, do it Art Anton Silenin. © Garage Museum of Contemporary Angelidakis. Photo: , Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014. , Utah Museum of Contemporary

In the more than 20 years since Obrist, Boltanski, and DO IT: EA do it Lavier mused over the potential of “scores,” or written

instructions by artists, to create exhibition formats that Starting in the fall of 2014, The Episcopal Academy (EA) could be more flexible and open-ended, do it went from in Newtown Square, PA, has been the first school of its do it a selection of 12 instructions to an ongoing project kind to become a hosting venue for do it. Developed including over four hundred artists. Every time it was by ICI trustee Susan Coote, this unique iteration of the presented, in any of the more than 60 venues worldwide, project puts do it in the hands of pre-k through 12th do it was re-interpreted anew. Many new versions grade students, their teachers, parents, and the school appeared, including do it (museum), do it (home), do it community. Through video-making, website and music (TV), do it (seminar), and an online do it in collaboration production, performances, twitter conversations, and instruction by Nicolás Paris, with e-flux, among others. school-wide workshops or after-school clubs, students do it Newtown Academy, The Episcopal at Square, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015. of all ages experience contemporary art first-hand, and at The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, Academy, The Episcopal at

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of do it in are asked to consider art-making in a completely different do it 2013, Obrist and ICI collaborated on its newest way, through an understanding of the intentions of an do it iteration, stemming from a new publication, do it: the artist. compendium—complete with the history of this landmark project and a selection of 250 artists’ instructions, DO IT: THE COMPENDIUM including 80 brand new ones. A call to action, do it invites

you to take part, to interpret, re-invent and generate By Hans Ulrich Obrist. Foreword Pape, instruction by Lygia Ashley, instruction by Robert

ideas, creating new dynamic institutional and exhibition and acknowledgements by Kate do it interpreted by Robert Hamblin, Art, The Michaelis School of Fine at Town, Cape Town, University of Cape South Africa, 2014. do it Pennsylvania, USA, 2015. formats for years to come. Fowle and Frances Wu Giarratano; introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Since May 2013, this latest iteration of do it has been essays by Bruce Altshuler, Hu shown in more than 16 art spaces internationally, with Fang, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, and many more scheduled this year. New versions and Elizabeth Presa. Softcover, 448 projects were also generated in the past two years, and pages. 8 x 10 inches. Co-published can be found on ICI’s website. Several of them, such as by Independent Curators International (ICI) and D.A.P., do it (homage), do it (archive), and do it (short), can even 2013. ISBN: 978-1-938922-01-5. $35.00 be shown alongside future presentations of do it. BASIC FACTS CURATOR Number of artists or artists groups: 250 Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Number of works: 250 Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of Space required: extremely flexible, though at least 1,000 the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his square feet is recommended first showWorld Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he Tour dates: March 2013–December 2017 has curated more than 250 exhibitions. Obrist’s recent For additional information and dates of availability, publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project contact Alaina Claire Feldman at Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything [email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, do it: the compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues—Loose Lips—Open Eyes—Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2014. The Galleries at Moore College of at Conversation Series. do it Opening of 12 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS 13

GLOBALITY IN ARTISTS’ FILM & VIDEO , 2010. In conjunction with the presentation of Project 35 Volume 2 at the University of Westminster (October 23–November 30, 2014), the Centre for Research 40.000.000 PROJECT 35 and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and the International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film organized the symposium Globality in Artists’ Film & Video. The event addressed expanded geographies of research on artists’ moving image and experimental video and gathered together artists, researchers and

VOLUME 2 writers including Shezad Dawood (an artist in Project 35 Zbyněk Baladrán (Czech Republic), Film Still. Courtesy of the artist. Volume 2), George Clark, May Adadol Ingawanij, Ozlem Koksal, Michael Mazière, Lucy Reynolds, Julian Ross, In 2010, ICI launched PROJECT 35, a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 and Erika Tan. international curators who each chose one work from an artist they think is important ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW), NYC for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting selection was Thirteen of the artists and ten of the curators in Project presented in more than 30 venues around the globe, at times simultaneously, inspiring 35 Volume 2 are based in Asia. Reflecting on this, and at Fresh Milk, St. George, discourse in places as varied as Berlin, Germany; Cape Town, South Africa; Lagos, in conjunction with the Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), ICI hosted works from Project 35 Volume 2 Nigeria; Los Angeles, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Skopje, Macedonia; Storrs, on October 23, 2014. Selections were also screened at

Connecticut; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tirana, Albania. Following the widespread popularity Asia Society during the ACAW Field Meetings series, 2 Project 35: Volume and success of the first exhibition, ICI has collaborated with 35 more international organized by Project 35 Volume 2 curator Leeza Ahmady. curators to produce PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2. Installation view of Barbados, 2013. Photo: Mark King

ICI has once again drawn from its extensive network of Amirali Ghasemi (Iran), Vít Havránek (Czech Republic), curators to trace the complexity of regional and global Hou Hanru (US / China), Virginija Januskeviciute connections among practitioners and the variety of (Lithuania), Abdellah Karroum (Morocco), Pablo León approaches they use to make video. 35 curators from de la Barra (Mexico / US), Maria Lind (Sweden), Yandro 6 continents each chose one work for this compilation, Miralles (Cuba), Srimoyee Mitra (Canada), Nat Muller showcasing a variety of artists’ takes on the medium. (The Netherlands), Sharmini Pereira (Sri Lanka), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (France / Slovenia), Kathrin Rhomberg Taking advantage of the flexibility of video formats, Project (Austria), Sun Jung Kim (South Korea), Mats Stjernstedt 35 Volume 2 can be shown in almost any space world- (Norway / Sweden), David Teh (Australia / Thailand), wide. It can be projected in a gallery, featured in monthly Philip Tinari (US / China), Christine Tohme (Lebanon), screenings, or shown on a monitor running in a café or Raluca Voinea (Romania), Jochen Volz (Germany / UK), education room. A pamphlet accompanies the exhibition Adnan Yildiz (Germany) with a short introduction to each work by the selecting curator, along with the curators and artists bios. Since this ARTISTS second version launched in 2012, Project 35 Volume 2 has been on view in over 27 international art spaces from Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil), Marwa Arsanios Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Jaffna, Sri Lanka to Montevideo, (Lebanon), Zbyněk Baladrán (Czech Republic), Michael Uruguay, including a coordinated presentation across the Blum (Israel / Canada) and Damir Nikšić (Bosnia / Caribbean. These itinerant presentations have built Sweden), Deanna Bowen (US / Canada), Pavel Braila a shared understanding of art practice by grasping the (Moldova), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (Turkey), Park Chan-Kyong complexity of our contemporary landscape, and at the (South Korea), Chen Zhou (China), Josef Dabernig

same time, generated diverse discourse inspiring artists (Austria), Elena Damiani (Peru), Shezad Dawood (UK), 2010. Film Still. Courtesy of the artist. and audiences all over the world. Annika Eriksson (Sweden), Antanas Gerlikas (Lithuania), Annemarie Jacir (Palestine), Jin-Me Yoon (Korea), CURATORS Lars Laumann (Norway), Aníbal López (A-1 53167) (Guatemala), Reynier Leyva Novo (Cuba), Basim Magdy Leezy Ahmady (Afghanistan / US), Meskerem (Egypt), Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil), Bradley McCullum Assegued (Ethiopia), Daina Augaitis (Canada), Defne & Jacqueline Tarry (US), Ivana Müller (France / The

Ayas (Turkey / The Netherlands), Regine Basha (US), Netherlands / Croatia), Ahmet Ögüt (Turkey), Jenny Banda Dos Sete (Band of Seven), A Valerie Cassel-Oliver (US), Rosina Cazali (Guatemala), Perlin (US), Agnieszka Polska (Poland), Sara Ramo Stuart Comer (US / UK), Veronica Cordeiro (Brazil / (Spain), Wok the Rock (Indonesia), Sona Safaei (Iran),

Uruguay), Christopher Cozier (Trinidad and Tobago), Heino Schmid (The Bahamas), Sun Xun (China), Prilla Sara Ramo, María del Carmen Carrión (Ecuador / US), Rifky Effendy Tania (Indonesia), Alexander Ugay (Kazakhstan), Dale (Indonesia), Özge Ersoy (Turkey), N’Goné Fall (Senegal), Yudelman (South Africa), Helen Zeru (Ethiopia) 14 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS 15 FREE PLAY DOCUMENTA 5 Curated by Melissa E. Feldman HARALD SZEEMANN: DOCUMENTA 5 Curated by David Platzker “No vital periods ever began from a theory. What’s first is a game, a struggle, a journey.” —Guy Debord Even 40 years later, DOCUMENTA 5, the exhibition that was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by Hilton Kramer and “monstrous…overtly deranged” by Seeking the initial moment described by Debord, FREE PLAY explores the work of Barbara Rose, resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Both artists who borrow from play and games to reveal social, philosophical, and cultural hailed and derided by artists and critics, the exhibition was the largest, most expensive issues. From playfulness, to mathematical strategy, the artists in FREE PLAY have mined and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, and foreshadowed all large-scale, the significance of games, reinventing them to create experiences, often meant to be collaboratively curated, comprehensive mega-shows to come. HARALD SZEEMANN: involving the viewer, and reflecting on the nature of participation in art. DOCUMENTA 5, explores the many facets of this particularly controversial Documenta exhibition, which jumped outside the contemporary art sphere into an expanded realm ARTISTS of activity, a legendary extravaganza that invited both visceral criticism and praise.

Cory Arcangel, Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, Ruth Catlow, Mary Flanagan, Futurefarmers, Ryan Gander, contemporary art scene of 1972, to see what this Jeanne van Heeswijk and Rolf Engelen, Allan McCollum particularly fertile cultural moment produced. Venues and Matt Mullican, Paul Noble, Yoko Ono, Pedro Reyes, might like to host an evening of local artists’ talks about Jason Rohrer, David Shrigley, Erik Svedäng contracts and rights, building from discussion of The Artists Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, or CURATOR could work with community groups to generate their own 100-day series of events.

Your Parents, You, Your Wee Sister, and The Social Sister, Wee Your You, Parents, Your Melissa E. Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer, and holds the position of Distinguished CURATOR , 2011. Image courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery. , 2011. Visiting Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts. She is

David Shrigley, David Shrigley, Services a frequent contributor to Art in America, Frieze, Third David Platzker is Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Text, Aperture, among others. Her recent exhibitions Museum of Modern Art, New York. From 2004 to 2013 he Artistic processes tied to game playing have historically include Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of was the director of Specific Object, an innovative gallery, attracted the avant-garde, most famously the chess Ballet and Theatre (2012), organized by the Mills College bookshop, and storehouse for a range of items from Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5, installation view, CAC Vilnius, 2011. CAC Vilnius, Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5, installation view, master Marcel Duchamp. His every artistic move had Art Museum, Oakland, which traveled to the Museum artists’ publications, multiples and unique works of art, his chess partner—the viewer—in mind. Games were of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; Afterglow: Rethinking Documenta, a major international contemporary art as well as literature, music, and counterculture. Before also intrinsic to the work of war-addled Surrealists California Light and Space Art (2010), Wiegand Gallery, presentation that takes place every five years in Kassel, founding Specific Object, Platzker was the executive and Dadaists, the inventors of exquisite corpse and Notre Dame de Namur University Art Gallery, Belmont, Germany, is in its 14th iteration. This specific 1972 director of Printed Matter from 1998 to 2004, the non- automatic drawing, in their quest to upend the bourgeois CA and the Hearst Art Gallery at St. Mary’s College, Documenta, chiefly curated by the influential Swiss profit institution dedicated to the promotion of artists’ pretensions of art and free the artistic imagination. In the Walnut Creek, CA; and Sampler: Textiles at Creative curator, Harald Szeemann, was a pioneering, radically books and publications. His curatorial projects at Specific 1960s and 1970s, the countercultural and antiwar Fluxus Growth (2007) at Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland. different presentation that was conceived as a 100-day Object and Printed Matter included shows of John group and the New Games Foundation questioned Feldman has taught at the California College of the event, with performances and happenings, outsider art, Baldessari, Hanne Darboven, Marcel Duchamp, Guerrilla capitalism and corporate culture by staging massive Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Goldsmith’s even non-art, as well as repeated Joseph Beuys lectures, Girls, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibon, public games in city parks. Moving away from the College, London, and is credited with organizing the first and an installation of Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum, Ed Ruscha, and Claes Oldenburg. At The Museum of classical chess period of kings, queens, and bishops, monographic exhibitions in America for Kilimnik, Martin among many other atypical inclusions. The show widely Modern Art he co-curated There Will Never Be Silence: the works Free Play do not represent medieval figures Kippenberger, and Hiroshi Sugimoto in the early 1990s promoted awareness of a contract known as The Artist’s Scoring John Cage’s 4’33” in collaboration with Jon but strategies of decision making around contemporary as curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, which Hendricks. issues. Philadelphia, PA. protects artists’ ongoing intellectual and financial rights with regard to their production. BASIC FACTS The arcade of games in Free Play include a version BASIC FACTS of Guitar Hero by Cory Arcangel, hopscotch by Mary This exhibition includes the catalogue, ephemera, Space required: extremely flexible Flanagan, and Ryan Gander’s version of blackjack— Number of artists or artists groups: 14 artists’ publications and editions produced in conjunction Tour dates: January 2011—Indefinitely while the more mystically inclined may gravitate toward Number of works: approximately 17 with the exhibition, as well as published reviews and For additional information and dates of availability, Allan McCollum and Matt Mullican’s divining game. Space required: extremely flexible critical responses. The assembled materials provide contact Alaina Claire Feldman at For additional information and dates of availability, a rich jumping off point for art history students, artists, [email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 contact Alaina Claire Feldman at and general audiences to plunge into the international [email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 16 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS 17 WITH HIDDEN PERFORMANCE NOISE NOW

Curated by Stephen Vitiello Curated by RoseLee Goldberg, co-organized with Performa WITH HIDDEN NOISE is an exploration of sound art that asks gallery and museum In her groundbreaking book PERFORMANCE ART: FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT visitors to spend time listening with ears they may not know they had… With too few yet (1979), art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg showed that performance is central important exhibitions focusing on the medium, sound art is made accessible to a wider to the history of twentieth-century art. In 2005, she launched PERFORMA 05, the first range of venues across continents with the artist-curated exhibition. biennial of visual art performance, and predicted that performance would become “the medium of the twenty-first century.” Indeed, its time has come.

This is an exhibition about listening, wherein Vitiello CURATOR traces a lineage for contemporary sound art in the charged silences of Fluxus performances, as in John RoseLee Goldberg’s seminal study, Performance Art: Cage’s seminal 4’33”, which forced audience members to From Futurism to the Present (first published in 1979 and acknowledge the sounds of the concert space or of their now in its third edition) is regarded as the leading text own restless bodies. —Allison Young, Artforum for understanding the development of the genre and has at MADA Gallery, Monash Gallery, at MADA at Kraków Theatrical at Kraków been translated into more languages (including Chinese, CURATOR Croatian, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian) than any other book of its Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist whose kind. When director of the Royal College of Art (RCA) With Hidden Noise With sound installations have been presented internationally Performance Now Gallery in London, Goldberg established a program that both in public spaces and museums. Among his recent pioneered an integrative approach to curating exhibitions, projects, A Bell for Every Minute, a site-specific project performance, and symposia, directly involving the various commissioned by Creative Time for the High Line, New departments of the RCA in all aspects of the exhibitions Installation view of Australia, 2013. Victoria, University, York (2010) was included in the Museum of Modern Installation view of Poland, 2014. Reminiscences, Kraków, program. As curator at The Kitchen in New York she Art’s exhibition Soundings: A Contemporary Score Performance Now is a selection of works by artists continued to advocate for multi-disciplinary practices to Featured artists in With Hidden Noise include legendary (2013). Vitiello has collaborated extensively, working with from a vast repository of new performance from around have equal prominence by establishing the exhibition composer Pauline Oliveros as well as Steve Roden, artists such as Tony Oursler, Julie Mehretu, Joan Jonas, the world since 2000, a period that has witnessed an space, a video viewing room, and a performance series. Andrea Parkins, and the project’s curator, Stephen Steve Roden, Nam June Paik, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. exponential growth in the field. Bringing together some of It was here that Goldberg curated the first solo exhibitions Vitiello. Titled after Duchamp’s readymade ball of string Originally from New York, he is now based in Richmond, the most significant practitioners today,Performance Now of Cindy Sherman, Sherri Levine, Robert Longo, Jack containing a mysterious sound-making object hidden in Virginia where is a professor in the Department of Kinetic surveys critical and experimental currents in performance Goldstein and The Kipper Kids, among others. Most its folds, this exhibition brings together evocative sounds, Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. internationally, featuring key Performa commissions, and recently, her vision in the creation of Performa has set some recognizable from traditional instruments and works by Marina Abramović, Jérôme Bel, Marvin Gaye a precedent for performance art that is now impacting field recordings, and others masked through electronic ARTISTS Chetwynd, William Kentridge, and Clifford Owens, among museum programming and diverse audiences across processes. others. the U.S. and abroad. In 2010 she was awarded the ICI Taylor Deupree, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Agnes Gund Curatorial Award and in 2006 named a This self-contained sound-art exhibition pairs down Andrea Parkins, Steve Peters, Steve Roden, Michael J. Together, the works in the exhibition are an indication Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Since 1987, the installation scale to a single set of surround-sound Schumacher, Stephen Vitiello of the extent to which visual artists use performance as Goldberg has taught at New York University. speakers (five speakers plus a subwoofer), adaptable to part of their creative process; how that process produces a wide range of spaces, allowing for many presentation BASIC FACTS objects, installations, video, or photography; and how ARTISTS possibilities. Also included are a number of books these mediums have been enlivened by the demands and catalogues on contemporary sound art that may Number of artists: 8 of recording performance in innovative ways. Exploring Marina Abramović, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo be distributed around the gallery for those who would Number of works: 7 live performance, artists capture its ephemerality and Calzadilla, Yael Bartana, Jérôme Bel, Guy Ben-Ner, like to read more as they listen. A further reading list, Space required: extremely flexible transform it into new work that contains the power and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Nikhil Chopra, Nathalie videography, and programming suggestions are provided Tour dates: March 2012–December 2015 content of the original. Djurberg, Claire Fontaine, Christian Jankowski, Jesper by the curator, making this exhibition as adaptable and For additional information and dates of availability, Just, William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Regina expandable as desired. contact Alaina Claire Feldman at José Galindo, Liz Magic Laser, Kalup Linzy, Nandipha [email protected] or 212 254 8200 x127 Mntambo, Kelly Nipper, Clifford Owens, Santiago Sierra, Laurie Simmons, Ryan Trecartin 18 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH CURATORIAL INTENSIVE 19 CURATORIAL INTENSIVE

ICI’s CURATORIAL INTENSIVE was established in 2010 as the world’s first short- course, low-cost training program for curators. Intended to bring working professionals together to gain new skills and perspectives on pragmatic aspects of curating, as well as to increase dialogue in curatorial ideas, the Intensive supports early- to mid-career curators working independently or institutionally in emerging and established art centers around the world. Programs are held at ICI in New York, and around the world in collaboration with institutional partners.

The Curatorial Intensive consists of a weeklong schedule INSTRUCTORS AND ADVISORS of seminars, workshops, advisement meetings, and site visits developed by ICI and taught by leading curators, Omar Berrada and Julien Amicel (co-funders of Dar

artists, critics, and directors. Participants apply with an al-Ma’mûn), María del Carmen Carrión (Director of September 21–30, 2014. seminar with Holland Cotter, York, , Curatorial Intensive in New exhibition proposal to workshop through the program, the Public Programs & Research, ICI), Hassan Darsi and outcomes of which are presented to a public audience Florence Renault-Darsi (Founders, La source du lion, on the last day. Through their intensive engagement Casablanca), Koyo Kouoh (Founding Artistic Director, Curating Now with each other during the sessions, participants realize RAW Material Company, Dakar), Renaud Proch opportunities for developing new collaborations and (Executive Director, ICI), Mohamed Rachdi (independent networks. curator, Marrakech), Shuddhabrata Sengupta (artist, REPORT: NEW YORK INSTRUCTORS AND ADVISORS New Delhi), Bisi Silva (Founder/Director, Centre for In 2015, ICI has established new international sites for Contemporary Art, Lagos), and Christine Tohme (founder, Program Dates: September 21–30, 2014 María del Carmen Carrión (Associate Director of Public the Curatorial Intensive and developed partnerships with Ashkal Alwan, Beirut), among others. Programs & Research, ICI), Stuart Comer (Chief institutions such as: Prospect and the Contemporary Arts Last September, the Curatorial Intensive in New York: Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Center in New Orleans, LA; Dar al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech, The Curatorial Intensive is made possible in part by grants from the Curating Now offered curators the opportunity to Museum of Modern Art, New York), Holland Cotter (Co- Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Hartfield Foundation, and by Morocco; and Gerencia Distrital de las Artes (IDARTES) generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, the ICI Board of Trustees, discuss, among colleagues, the concepts, logistics, and chief Art Critic and Senior Writer, The New York Times, in Bogotá, Colombia. Bolstering ICI’s involvement in ICI’s Leadership Fund for Africa, and the supporters of ICI’s Access Fund. challenges of organizing exhibitions, public programs, New York), Reem Fadda (Associate Curator of Middle Southeast Asia, the Curatorial Intensive will also take Scholarships for curators from Turkey will be supported by SAHA. and other discursive formats. Topics under discussion Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim place in Manila, the Philippines in October 2015. included social practice, community engagement, and Foundation, New York), Lia Gangitano (Founder/Director, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA alternative exhibition formats, among others. Participant Inc., New York), Andrea Geyer (artist, New MARRAKECH, MOROCCO York), Elizabeth M. Grady (Director of Programs, A Blade Program Dates: June 17–23, 2015 The program explored independent practices and of Grass, New York), Larissa Harris (Curator, Queens Program Dates: May 19–25, 2015 spaces in New York, such as Participant Inc, and gave Museum of Art, New York), Tumelo Mosaka (independent This June, ICI in collaboration with Gerencia Distrital de curators the opportunity to engage with independent and curator, New York), and Renaud Proch (Executive This May, ICI in collaboration with Dar al-Ma’mûn, las Artes (IDARTES), presents the second Curatorial institutional curators based in the city, as well as one Director, ICI) presents the inaugural Curatorial Intensive in Marrakech, Intensive in Bogotá. Following the success of the last of New York’s leading voice on contemporary art, Morocco. Following the Curatorial Intensive in Addis Curatorial Intensive in Bogotá in November 2013, ICI Holland Cotter. The Curatorial Intensive is made possible in part by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Hartfield Foundation, and by gener- Ababa with the Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC) is pleased to continue its active programming in Latin ous contributions from the ICI Board of Trustees, the ICI Gerrit Lansing in 2014, and in Johannesburg with The Bag Factory America and offering professional training opportunities Education Fund, and the supporters of ICI’s Access Fund. Scholarships Artists’ Studios in 2013, ICI continues its commitment to for emerging curators in Spanish. for this Curatorial Intensive were generously provided by SAHA. supporting curatorial training in Africa and to developing regional networks. The program will focus on the cultural The Curatorial Intensive is made possible in part by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Hartfield Foundation, and by landscape of West Africa and the Maghreb while also generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, the ICI Board of Trustees, exploring the role of curators working for both local and the ICI Gerrit Lansing Education Fund, and the supporters of ICI’s Access international audiences. Fund. The Kurimanzutto Scholarship for Latin American curators will be offered to one successful applicant.

For more information on the instructors, advisors, and schedule, as well as past Curatorial Intensives, visit ICI’s website, curatorsintl.org, or contact Kimberly Kitada at [email protected]. 20 CURATORIAL INTENSIVE CURATORIAL INTENSIVE 21 , seminar with Franklin Sirmans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, January 18–24, 2015. , seminar with Franklin Sirmans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, January 18–24, 2015. Andersson, Contemporary Andrea , seminar with Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS NOTES FROM NOLA Later in the week, Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator of the 8th Edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Program Dates: January 18–24, 2015 Prospect New Orleans was conceived in the tradition of Program Dates: January 18–24, 2015 Contemporary Art (GIBCA), spoke about the Lubumbashi the great international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennial. And on the final day of seminars, Valerie Cassel In January 2015, ICI inaugurated the Curatorial Intensive Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo, to showcase Coinciding with the closing week of the Prospect 3 Oliver, Senior Curator at CAMH, discussed her interest in in New Orleans in collaboration with Prospect and the new artistic practices from around the world in settings Biennial: Notes for Now, curated by Franklin Sirmans, the moving image and performance-based practices through Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. This program that are both historic and culturally exceptional, and vibrant art scene in New Orleans proved to be a dynamic the lens of several past exhibitions. Another international represented the first 8-day Intensive in the U.S. outside of contribute to the cultural economy of New Orleans context for the first Curatorial Intensive in the Crescent perspective from Beatriz Santiago Muñoz brought the New York, which is part of an ongoing series of programs and the Louisiana Gulf region. Prospect.3: Notes for City. Tumelo Mosaka opened the week with a seminar artist’s voice to the conversation as she discussed her engaging with curatorial and artistic practices around Now, the third edition of the New Orleans International asking the curators to consider their motivations, their own practice. She also co-founded Beta-Local in San the Gulf of Mexico—including exhibitions and curatorial Contemporary Art Biennial, is on view through January goals, and the urgency of their work. Andrea Andersson, Juan, Puerto Rico: a collective, visionary project to research fellowships. The Intensive brought together 25, 2015. newly appointed Chief Curator of Visual Arts at CAC, generate a new model for discussion, engagement, and emerging curators from across the South and around the incorporated the publication aspect of curatorial work by community within an art space. world for the opportunity to exchange ideas, develop CAC NEW ORLEANS focusing on the book format, and looking at exhibitions their exhibitions and projects, and explore Prospect.3 as a “visual essay.” One remarkable highlight of the week The final symposium at CAC provided the participants Notes for Now, the international biennial curated by The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a multi– was a site visit to L9 Center for the Arts, where the artists with an opportunity to present their exhibition proposals Franklin Sirmans. disciplinary arts center dedicated to the presentation, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, provided us with to a public audience. Based on their proposals, the topics production, and promotion of the art of our time. a glimpse into their work. of presentations included social and economic inequality, INSTRUCTORS AND ADVISORS Formed in 1976 by a passionate group of visual and contemporary implications of the civil rights movement, performing artists when the movement to tear down the Participants also received an internal perspective on and new models for audience engagement. Following Andrea Andersson (Chief Curator of Visual Arts, CAC walls between visual and performing arts was active the planning, development, and realization of the P.3 the day of presentations, a member of the audience, New Orleans), María del Carmen Carrión (Director of nationwide, the CAC expresses its mission by organizing Biennial from Brooke Davis Anderson, Executive Director impressed with the curators and quality of the program, Public Programs & Research, ICI), Tumelo Mosaka world class curated exhibitions, performances, and of Prospect New Orleans, and Franklin Sirmans, Artistic made an anonymous donation to fund a travel fellowship (independent curator, New York), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz public programs that educate and enlarge audiences Director of P.3. Sirmans spoke about his conceptual for several participants to attend the 56th Venice Biennale (artist, San Juan), Valerie Cassel Oliver (Senior Curator, for the arts while encouraging collaboration among starting point of an existential journey by way of Walker in May 2015. The curators will receive a travel stipend, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston), Elvira Dyangani diverse stakeholders composed of artists, institutions, Percy’s novel The Moviegoer, and shaping the biennial to invitations to events organized by ICI Collaborators in Ose (Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University communities, and supporters throughout the world. reflect the local content and the current moment. Venice, and have the opportunity to meet dozens of of London and Curator of the 8th Edition of the Göteborg colleagues and alumni from around the world at a reunion International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA The Curatorial Intensive is made possible in part by grants from the Claire Tancons, a New Orleans-based independent and meeting organized by ICI in partnership with Fabrica, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Hartfield Foundation, and by 2015), Renaud Proch (Executive Director, ICI), Franklin generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, the ICI Board of curator, and curator of EN MAS’ spoke of her practice held at the Italian foundation’s grounds in Treviso. Sirmans (Artistic Director, Prospect.3, New Orleans and Trustees, the ICI Gerrit Lansing Education Fund, and the supporters and projects and joined by Delaney Martin to discuss Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of ICI’s Access Fund. Public Practice: An Anti-Violence Community Ceremony, of Contemporary Art, LACMA, Los Angeles), and Claire a project the two co-organized in October 2014 during the Tancons (independent curator, New Orleans) opening events of P.3. 22 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH ALUMNI UPDATES 23

ALUMNI NEWS

Diana Campbell (Inhotim ‘12), Director of the Samdani Art Foundation, announced the third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, which will take place from February 5–8, 2016 in ALUMNI Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Freya Chou (Summer NY ’11) was appointed as the first Curator of Education and Public Program at Para Site, Hong Kong. UPDATES Sally Frater (Summer NY ‘12) curated 1972 at Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on view October 10−November 8, 2014. Balimunsi Philip at the Curatorial Intensive in Addis Ababa, May 13–19, Addis Balimunsi Philip at the Curatorial Intensive in 2014. There are currently 327 alumni of the Curatorial Intensives, based in 61 different In Santiago, Chile, Soledad García (Bogotá ‘13) co- countries and 22 U.S. states. ICI remains in contact with alumni through the Curator’s curated Block Mágico at Museo de la Solidaridad Network, and is updated on the exhibitions and projects that become fully realized Salvador Allende (October 11, 2014−January 25, 2015). after the Intensives, as well as the alumni’s other public programs and curatorial Nazli Gurlek (Derry ‘13 and Istanbul ‘13) curated endeavors around the world. Common Ground: Water at Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Turkey (November 29, 2014−March 22, 2015).

EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS DEVELOPED Ivan Isaev (Moscow ’14) was appointed as the new THROUGH THE CURATORIAL INTENSIVE curator for the young art platform START at CCA Winzavod in Moscow, Russia.

João Laia (Derry ‘13) is on the Curatorial Committee of the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil, to be

held October 6−December 6, 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil. August 3–9, 2014. Ivan Isaev at the Curatorial Intensive in Moscow,

Tess Maunder (Tokyo ‘13) has joined the team of The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia as Public , 2012. Programs and Publications Officer. , Atlanta , Contemporary Art Center,

Yameli Mera (Mexico City ‘14) curated the exhibition

For a Better World of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Matrulla: Landscape and Pratfall Tramps Memory at Sala de Arte Publico in Mexico City, on view September 4−November 23, 2014.

Sofia Olascoaga (Inhotim ’12) has joined the curatorial Priscila Fernandes, Installation image, 2015. Photo: Jan Rattia. February 6–April 11, team for the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, scheduled for Jesse van Oosten Rachel Reese September 2016. The Value of Nothing Pratfall Tramps

September 4–November 16, 2014 February 6–April 11, 2015 Sidd Perez (Tokyo ‘13) curated Articles of Disagreements May João Laia at the Curatorial Intensive in Derry~Londonderry, 19–25, 2013. TENT Rotterdam, The Netherlands Atlanta Contemporary Art Center at the Lopez Museum & Library, Pasig City, Philippines (September 19−December 20, 2014). The Value of Nothing springs from long-term research How do we begin to qualify and draw connections initiated by TENT into shifts in thinking about value and between artists and artworks dealing with or Balimunsi Philip (Addis Ababa ’14) and Robinah economics, and the role that art can play therein. In about ‘funniness’ as subject matter, however Nansubuga (Johannesburg ‘13) were part of the the aftermath of the global economic crisis increasingly individualized? Pratfall Tramps investigates an artwork’s curatorial team for the 2014 Kampala Contemporary Art urgent questions arise that are related to neoliberal comedic desire, through the work of Tammy Rae Carland, Festival, October 4−31, 2014 in Kampala, Uganda. values seeping into almost every aspect of our lives. The Jamie Isenstein, Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Mary Value of Nothing presents artists who contribute to the Reid Kelley. These four women artists have developed TransHisTor(ia), a collective comprised of María Sol current debate on commodification in society, expose strong practices that reference mainstream comedy’s Barón Pino and Camilo Ordóñez Robayo (Mexico City the underlying mechanisms, or propose alternative systems and authors, while reflecting on issues of gender ‘14), curated Con Wilson...dos décadas vulnerables strategies. in comedy and the art world they occupy. Each artist locales y visuales at Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia takes a comedic approach, uniquely tied to their personal (October 17−November 14, 2014). visual styles and narratives, as a means to explore their work and their deviations from norms (whether cultural, Adnan Yildiz (Fall NY ’11) was named Director of

social, logical, or linguistic). Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand. María Sol Barón Pino and Camilo Ordóñez Robayo, at TransHisTor(ia), June 30–July 7, 2014. the Curatorial Intensive in Mexico City,

For more information about the Curatorial Intensive and the program’s alumni, visit ICI’s website, www.curatorsintl.org, under the Curatorial Intensive section. 24 INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL 40 YEARS OF ICI 25

Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces, were not ICI’s first partnerships with the artist. Just three years after ICI was established, and at the same time as Wilson founded the alternative space Franklin Furnace, 40 YEARS ICI produced Artists’ Books U.S.A., a unique survey exhibition of artists’ publications, co-curated by Wilson and Peter Frank. The show included well over a hundred examples of book art—showing a broad range of attitudes towards publishing, from ad-hoc to ephemeral, experimental to activist. From 1978 to 1980, it expanded OF ICI the often-informal distribution of these publications to reach broad audiences in art spaces across North America. ICI has remained committed to supporting Since 1975, ICI has been a pioneering organization focusing on the role of the curator independent publishing as an artistic and curatorial Meskerem Assegued at the Curatorial Intensive in Addis Ababa, May Addis Assegued at the Curatorial Intensive in Meskerem 13–19, 2014. as a contextualizing force for contemporary art. With exhibitions, events, publications, practice, and regularly organizes panel discussions, events, and book launches, at its Curatorial Hub and And just like ICI’s first exhibition catalogue in 1975 curatorial training and research, ICI today is the only art organization of its kind to be beyond. was published in Spanish and Portuguese, translation active in every U.S. state and over 40 countries—from California to Indonesia, wher- remains a critical consideration at ICI, in order to address ever partnerships are activated. With this unique perspective, ICI works with curators, issues of access in the curatorial field. Since 2013, the Curatorial Intensive was organized in 3 cities in Latin artists, and art spaces, to supports independent practice. One collaboration at a time, America, conducted entirely in Spanish. The upcoming we foster the local structures and expand the regional networks that allow for cultural Intensive in Marrakech, Morocco, will be conducted in English, but also in Arabic and French, following a new exchange in a global world. model developed with our partners, Dar al-Ma’mûn, an art space whose activities include educational and translation programs. In addition, key curatorial resources WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH CURATORS, to conduct the research that is critical to their practice will be translated into French and Arabic for the first time ARTISTS, AND ART SPACES in conversation with ICI staff, and with access to ICI’s for the occasion. international network of collaborators. ICI’s founders, Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli Sundell, International iterations of ICI’s programs and the defined in 1975 the vision behind one of the first Curatorial Intensive in particular have also shown to give organizations in the world to be dedicated to curators. broader access to emerging curators, recognizing that Their work together shaped their understanding of how ENERGIZING CURATORIAL NETWORKS, opportunities are still often curtailed by borders, visas, an international network of curators, artists, and art AND FOSTERING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and other political and economic factors. spaces could emerge through collaboration and serve AROUND THE WORLD to advance curatorial practice and the presentation of contemporary art. Recognizing the critical issues faced by emerging curators working in different contexts across the U.S. Collaboration is at the core of ICI’s approach to and around the world—including cost, time, and access supporting curators and creating access to contemporary to resources—the Curatorial Intensive was developed art and discourse for broad audiences. As they travel in 2010 as a weeklong, low-cost program that can take to art spaces internationally, many ICI exhibitions are place in collaboration with art organizations around the the basis of collaborations with the hosting venues world. Just like with many ICI exhibitions, the program and curators that generate new content, even new is adapted to each local partnership, promoting a better publications, and new experiences with local audiences understanding of the local context.

in mind. ICI exhibitions such as do it (1997–2001, and Costa Rica led by Pablo León de la Barra. TEOR/éTica, at Workshop 2013–present), FAX (2009–12), and Living as Form (the Nomadic Version) (2012–14), actually grow as they 40 YEARS OF ENCOURAGING travel, gathering new local contents that are then taken to INDEPENDENT PRACTICE international contexts. Over the past 40 years, ICI has built an unparalleled ICI’s training and research programs for curators also rely network of collaborators—curators, artists, and art on the power of working together, sharing knowledge, spaces of all sizes—with the goal to support independent and learning from one another. The Curatorial Intensive practice locally, and encourage the sharing of is the first-ever professional development and training independent thought across the globe. This has been program to build a growing, active network of peers true since day one, and ICI today continues to build upon for continued learning among curators. Each Intensive this rich history of support to independent projects. held outside of New York City is developed by ICI with a partner institution, around ideas selected by both for Take for example ICI’s current collaboration with Martha their relevance to the local, regional and international Wilson, which has roots in the late 1970s. Martha Wilson

contexts. Even ICI’s Research Fellowships allow curators —an evolving retrospective of the artist’s work—and the Public Symposium at Museo Curatorial Intensive in Mexico City, Jumex, July 7, 2014. 26 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 27 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) Travel Award, the ICI/SAHA Research Award, and the French Institute Fellowship support curators in providing opportunities for in-depth research.

2015 CPPC TRAVEL AWARD Application guidelines for the CPPC Travel Award can CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN be found on ICI’s website. Independent curators and those with institutional affiliations may apply. Applications from established and emerging curators (3+ years of professional experience) will be considered. A jury of professionals who live in, or have extensive knowledge of the region, will select the successful applicant.

The inaugural CPPC Travel Award was granted in 2012 to Pablo León de la Barra, who conducted research trips to the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, and Puerto Rico with the aim to reread seminal historical moments in the region that have acquired new relevance View of Théâtre Aimé Césaire, Martinique, July 2014. Photo: María Elena Ortiz Théâtre of View in the current political and economic reality. The 2013 recipient, Remco de Blaaij, set out to research women activist practices in the countries of Guatemala, Jamaica, 2014 CPPC TRAVEL AWARD with Tessa Whitehead and Heino Schmid, who have been Nicaragua, and Suriname. The 2014 awardee, María working collaboratively, and creating a series of works Elena Ortiz, explored film and video practices in Aruba, María Elena Ortiz was selected as the third recipient focused on sculpture and time-based experimentation, in Martinique, the Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago. of the CPPC Travel Award for Central America and which the artists use found materials to make improvised View of abandoned oil facilities, Aruba, June 2014. Photo: María Elena Ortiz of abandoned oil facilities, View the Caribbean. She visited new and established sculptural works. Also, I spoke with Holly Parotti, an Application Deadline: April 1, 2015 Thank you to the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) for contemporary art centers, artist initiatives, and film artist working in video and photography to address their generous support of this fellowship. CPPC works to increase the understanding and awareness of Latin America’s contributions to the festivals in the Caribbean countries of Aruba, the notions of identity, landscape, sexuality, and gender. I In 2015, The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros history of art and ideas, and to support innovation, education, and Bahamas, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago. She had the opportunity to visit with John Beadle, one of the (CPPC) and ICI continue their partnership with The 2015 research in the field of Latin American art. conducted interviews with local cultural producers and most important artists working in the Bahamas. Beadle Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for studio visits with artists to investigate film and video is known for using found materials to create formal Central America and the Caribbean. In its fourth edition, practices with the aim of strengthening the ties between arrangements that question tradition and representation. this travel award will support a contemporary art curator art in the Caribbean and the Diaspora, particularly in the — María Elena Ortiz based anywhere in the world to travel to Central America local community of Miami, Florida. and the Caribbean to conduct research about art and To read more from María Elena Ortiz’s travel-log, please visit the cultural activities in the region. Intended to generate In the Bahamas an artist mentioned to me, “I enjoy not Research section of ICI’s website. new collaborations with artists, curators, museums, feeling the burden of cultural history.” I found this creative and cultural centers in the area, this award will cover attitude in many places in Nassau, as I came across FELLOW curatorial residencies, studio visits, and/or archival a locality always in action, generating compelling art research. that questions the cultural pillars that formed this young María Elena Ortiz currently works as Assistant Curator nation, while also tracing their history in provocative at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Previously, The CPPC Travel Award will support a curator to visit exhibitions. During my stay, I visited the National Gallery she was the Curator of Contemporary Arts at the Sala either one or multiple locations in Central America and of the Bahamas, the city’s well-established artist-run de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City. Ortiz has also the Caribbean. The travel period can be anywhere spaces, and met with a group of artists actively shaping collaborated with institutions such as TEOR/éTica, San between three weeks and three months, and take place contemporary art in Nassau. Jose, Costa Rica; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of between May and November 2015. The grant will cover Craft and Folk Art, and New Langton Arts, both in San costs of up to $10,000. I had studio visits with various artists, some of whom Francisco. participated in the exhibition at the National Gallery. I met 28 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 29

ICI / SAHA RESEARCH AWARD RESEARCH PUBLICATION

Since 2012, SAHA and ICI have been collaborating The research conducted by Alejandra Labastida and on a $3,000 award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni to Gürsoy Doğtaş led to a bilingual (Turkish and English) encourage productive networks between curators. publication in the style of a fanzine. It served to present the preliminary state of research, with further The recipients of the 2013 ICI / SAHA Research contributions examining more detailed questions from Award were Gürsoy Doğtaş (Turkey) and Alejandra the interviews, such as the significance of voice and his Labastida (Mexico), who participated in the Summer break with the heteronormative image of men. The full 2013 Curatorial Intensive in New York. Their research digital publication titled The Politics of the Melancholic aimed to explore the impact of the military regime in Voice: Zeki Müren’s Kahir Mektubu is now available on the 1980s Turkish Republic, focusing on Zeki Müren the ICI website: curatorsintl.org/research/journals (1931–1996), a Turkish poet, composer, and singer who was banned from performing on stage for several years. Thank you to SAHA for their generous support of this fellowship. SAHA aims to contribute toward the presence and visibility of art from Turkey Closed-Door Think Tank with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, ICI Curatorial Tank Think Closed-Door October 22, 2014. York, Hub, New Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, 2014 ICI / French Institute Fellowship recipient. Photo: Jure Eržen The curators are using his work as an example to reveal and supports artistic projects and research working in contemporary art. the often little-know history of artistic repression during 2014 ICI / FRENCH INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP Aside from the institutional work on the mutualization this time. of resources, solidarity and working together on the Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is the third ICI / French basis of affinities, L’Internationale can be taken as a Institute Fellow. The fellowship program offers a French starting point. One can detect through its organisation curator a new opportunity for international research and what are the possibilities of participation today, in the development of professional networks. The program the global exchange of ideas, the spectacularization spans over a period of 6 months and includes research of the art institutions and wild speculation of art trips to the U.S. and now to other cities throughout the market. L’Internationale is a confederation of six modern international network of ICI collaborators. and contemporary art institutions; it proposes a space for art within a non-hierarchical and decentralized Petrešin-Bachelez’s research focuses on cooperative internationalism, based on the values of difference and practices in curating and on common urgencies, horizontal exchange among a constellation of cultural solidarities, empathy and antagonisms of dynamic agents, locally rooted and globally connected. networks, including collaboratively-run spaces, advocacy —Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez groups, and artist-activist groups. In October 2014, Nataša furthered her research in New York by facilitating FELLOW a closed-door discussion at the ICI Curatorial Hub with María del Carmen Carrión (Director of Public Programs & Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an art critic and independent Research, ICI), Reem Fadda (Associate Curator, Middle curator based in Paris, France. She is currently managing Eastern Art, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project), Julia editor of the online platform of L’Internationale, which is Knight (Operations Director, apexart), Nitin Sawhney hosted by KASK/School of Arts in Ghent. Since 2011, (Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School Petrešin-Bachelez has been chief editor of Manifesta for Public Engagement), and Nato Thompson (Chief Journal. Curator, Creative Time). Thank you to l’Institut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for generously supporting this fellowship. L’Institut Nataša also traveled to Mexico City, where she met français in Paris promotes French culture abroad and the Cultural with artists Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, curators Services of the French Embassy provides Americans access and Magali Arriola, Julieta Gonzalez (Senior Curator, Museo resources to engage with French culture. Rufino Tamayo), and Cuauhtemoc Medina (Chief Curator, MUAC) as well as the critic Susanna Vargas.

I chose to embark on the short but intense investigation and comparison into the common urgencies, solidarities, empathy and antagonisms that drive some of the more visible institutional networks in the contemporary art world in Europe, U.S., and also more transnationally, including cooperatively-run spaces, advocacy groups, and artist activist groups. Having just begun to work Alejandra Labastida. Images for Zeki Muren research and publication. Image by Gürsoy Dogtas as the managing editor of L’Internationale Online, the new online platform of the confederation of European museums and art institutions, the idea about the research on cooperative practices in curating and in the institutional politics has been in the forefront of my current interests. 30 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE 31

UPCOMING EVENTS curated exhibitions for Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum of Art of Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Para Site, Hong Kong; TheCube, Project Space, Taipei; ARKO art centre, Seoul; Kadist, San Francisco; and Bergen Assembly, Bergen. His writings have appeared in Afterall, CURATOR’S ArtNexus, Metropolis M, Nero, Manifesta Journal, and Ramona, among other publications and exhibition PERSPECTIVE catalogues.

The CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE is a free, itinerant public discussion series ICI developed Naomi Beckwith, Photo: Nathan Keay. as a way for international curators to share their interests and experiences with audiences Naomi Beckwith in New York. These talks provide an opportunity to access information about a wide Tuesday, March 10, 7–8:30pm variety of international perspectives on art today. This year, ICI has invited curators NYU Steinhardt, Einstein Auditorium 34 Stuyvesant Street based in Chicago, Hong Kong, Munich, and New York to speak about art, culture, and New York, NY 10003

the exhibitions in which they are most interested, as well as the artists and the socio- Art Reoriented. Fellrath, co-founders of Till Sam Bardaouil and Naomi Beckwith is the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator political contexts that are shaping curatorial practice now. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Prior to Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath joining the MCA, Beckwith was a fellow at the Institute of Tuesday, June 2, 7–8:30pm Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, working on numerous Hunter College MFA Campus PAST PROGRAMS cutting-edge exhibitions including Locally Localized 205 Hudson Street Gallery, 2nd Floor Gravity (2007), which was an exhibition and program New York, NY 10013 of events featuring over 100 artists whose practices are social, participatory, and communal. Beckwith Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath co-founded Art was previously the Associate Curator at The Studio Reoriented, a multi-disciplinary curatorial platform Museum in Harlem, where she focused on themes of operating from Munich and New York, in 2009. Their past identity and conceptual practices in contemporary art and ongoing exhibition, research and publication projects and artists of African descent, as well as managed the were presented internationally with institutions such Artists-in-Residence program. Beckwith has curated key as MoMA in New York, Mathaf in Doha, INHA in Paris, exhibitions such as 30 Seconds off an Inch at The Studio IVAM in Valencia, Casa Arabe in Madrid, The Museum Museum in Harlem (2009–10), exhibiting work by 42 of Contemporary Art in Gwangju, Tashkeel in Dubai, the artists of color or those inspired by black culture. China Art Museum in Beijing and BOZAR in Brussles. They are members of several art prize and residency committees such as Dar Al-Ma’mun in Marrakech and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels. Bardaouil and Fellrath have held teaching positions at several universities such as the London School of Economics

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Photo: Eric Hester Cassel Oliver, Valerie and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Valerie Cassel Oliver All events in the Curator’s Perspective series are free of charge and open to the public. For more information about upcoming events visit September 10, 2014 ICI’s website, curatorsintl.org, or contact Kimberly Kitada at [email protected]. Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, spoke at the The 2014 Curator’s Perspective program is made possible, in part, by grants from the Hartfield Foundation, the support of ICI’s Board of Hunter College MFA Campus about her recent curatorial Trustees and ICI’s Gerrit Lansing Education Fund. , Hunter College MFA Campus, New York, September 10, 2014. York, Campus, New , Hunter College MFA

projects and ideas on exhibition-making. She discussed Inti Guerrero, independent curator and art critic. Courtesy of Inti Guerrero. some of her key exhibitions from Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art(2003) to Inti Guerrero Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 Wednesday, April 8, 7–8:30pm (2005), as well as her recent Radical Presence (2012); School of Visual Arts and her relationship to the institution she has worked at 132 W. 21st Street, 10th Floor for over a decade, and the audience that has followed its New York, NY 10010 program. Inti Guerrero is an art critic and curator based in Hong

Curator’s Perspective: Valerie Cassel Oliver Curator’s Perspective: Valerie Kong. Until recently he was Associate Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica. Guerrero has 32 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH CURATORIAL HUB 33

PAST EVENTS

CURATORIAL , directed by

HUB , 2013, Courtesy of the artist. Over the past year, ICI hosted 23 events in the Curatorial Hub, all of which were Polar Eclipse free and open to the public. Intended to better facilitate the informal exchange of

ideas and experiences between professionals, the Curatorial Hub provides a flexible Andén Zona Intervenida // Colectivo Film Preview and Talk: October 14, 2014. York, ICI Curatorial Hub, New Nitin Sawhney, Strachan, Tavares and discursive space for artist and curator talks, panel discussions, small press events, Film Preview and Talk with Nitin Sawhney “You Belong Here”: Tavares Strachan in conversation performative lectures, reading sessions, and training programs. It also houses a October 14, 2014 with María del Carmen Carrión curatorial library of periodicals and books from institutions all over the world. Events February 10, 2015 Nitin Sawhney spoke about his recent documentary at the Hub are announced throughout the year. Zona Intervenida, co-produced with the Andén Collective New York-based artist Tavares Strachan and ICI’s María in Guatemala, with a limited sneak preview. Zona del Carmen Carrión discussed the artist’s past and Intervenida is an artistic exploration of the historic current projects to a full house, including the large-scale UPCOMING EVENTS memory of violence, civil war and apathy in Guatemala. neon work, You Belong Here, commissioned for the He also briefly discussed his emerging curatorial Prospect.3 Biennial in New Orleans. IN THE CANYON, REVISE THE CANON: research project, Guatemala Después. Géraldine Gourbe Thursday, April 2, 6:30–8pm , ICI To coincide with her new publication In the Canyon, Revise the Canon: Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-run Community Art Spaces in performance series, 1973-1974, Southern California, philosopher Géraldine Gourbe joins ICI from Paris to discuss her research and propose a

framework for which we can continue to use feminism as Maintenance Art a tool to engage with art and culture at large. , ICI Curatorial Hub, New York, January 14, 2015. York, , ICI Curatorial Hub, New

Domestic Revolution: Panel Discussion with , 1973; Part of Megan Witko Tuesday, April 7, 6:30–8pm

Curatorial Intensive alumna Megan Witko presents a

panel discussion on social practice in the domestic Memoirs Holeng: Lyrical Spaces, Species and Situations: David Brooks Meredith Johnson February 24, 2015. York, Curatorial Hub, New sphere, featuring artists Alina Bliumis and Ben Kinmont. Megan Witko, who participated in the Moscow Intensive Holeng: Lyrical Memoirs Spaces, Species and Situations: David Brooks in in August 2014, developed this proposal over the course January 14, 2015 conversation with Meredith Johnson of the program, which is also published on the ICI February 25, 2015 website under Alumni Proposals. Holeng, an artist and curator from Singapore and currently based in Vienna, presented a talk titled Lyrical Artist David Brooks, in conversation with curator Meredith The Curatorial Hub was established with the support of the Rockefeller Maintenance (Outside) Tracks, Washing, Hartford Wash: Memoirs: Cultural, criticism, and curating of photographic Johnson, spoke about his expeditions, installations, and Brothers Fund, and programs at the Hub are made possible in part by a grant from the Hartfield Foundation. engagement of an existential space. The event public work exploring the relationship between culture focused on a visual ethnography project comprised of and the natural world. Brooks and Johnson considered Check ICI’s website, curatorsintl.org, for updates on Hub events. photographs and text by Holeng on the sociological how our communal and individual relationship to geologic processes of urban regeneration in Asia. time can be translated through the ephemeral language

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, York. Arts, New Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Performance at Wadsworth of the exhibition, and the role artists play in a political conversation that spans species and epochs. 34 NETWORKS & ACCESS NETWORKS & ACCESS 35 ONLINE NETWORKS

ICI’s website offers access to more than the latest information on ICI exhibitions and programs. It is a curatorial resource that makes available recordings of ICI talks and conferences, commissioned writings, a 40-year exhibition archive, from anywhere around the world. It includes an online catalogue of the ICI Library, located at the Curatorial Hub in New York. And it hosts the Curator’s Network, ICI’s online professional membership program, which facilitates international exchange and dialogue for over 500 members from more than 60 countries.

ONLINE RESOURCES: DO IT AND EN MAS’ CURATOR’S NETWORK

ICI has developed specific online platforms for generative The Curator’s Network is ICI’s professional membership exhibitions such as do it, in order to make accessible program and an online community of curators from the contents created by each iteration of the project. around the world, with over 500 members from more ICI LIBRARY Similarly, the online platform for EN MAS’ contains of than 60 countries, all professionals in the field, including a wealth of documentation and materials tracking the recent alumni and faculty of the Curatorial Intensive. Like the Curatorial Hub that houses it, the ICI development and production of the nine performances Members share a desire to build and enrich their interests Library serves to document recent developments in around which the exhibition is articulated. and research through international connections. The contemporary art through the lens of international Curator’s Network provides select access to professional curatorial practice. It presents itself as a tool for research ONLINE RESOURCES: RESEARCH resources, including a Reading Room, a Forum, and an and an accessible resource for curators living in or online guide to sought-after opportunities. Through the coming through New York. The books in the ICI Library Academy, The Episcopal at The Research section of ICI’s website offers an array Network, curators can access information on residencies, are non-circulating, but we encourage visitors to schedule do it of curatorial resources to professionals and broad current job and fellowship opportunities, calls for an appointment to access this unique resource. You can audiences alike. The Journal section provides interviews exhibitions and conference papers, as well as articles on begin by exploring the ICI Library holdings through our with recipients of the Independent Vision Curatorial curating and source material for research. digital database, LibraryThing: Award, as well as commissioned research texts from ICI www.librarything.com/profile/CuratorsINTL collaborators and Curatorial Intensive alumni, in addition Membership also grants access to a quarterly newsletter to reports and publications from our research fellows. with program updates, opportunities, suggested reading instruction by Nicolás Paris, Announcements on ICI’s fellowship opportunities are and articles, as well as exclusive offers from ICI; a closed do it Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015. available in the Fellowships section. group on LinkedIn; and to ICI’s Curatorial Hub and Library. The Media Room contains audio recordings from ICI

public programming such as The Curator’s Perspective International members of the Curator’s Network now will , and Curatorial Hub events, edited in collaboration with have access to NeueHouse as a base when they are in Clocktower Radio’s “Art on Air.” A growing archive of New York City. This new partnership offers the flexible recordings also includes a series of video interviews with workspace, meeting rooms, and networking opportunities Curatorial Intensive faculty in Mexico City, conducted in needed when traveling. Spanish. The fully tax-deductible annual subscription to the Curator’s Network is $100 per year. For more information or to register, visit ICI’s website, curatorsintl.org, under the Network section. For questions about the Invisible Presence: Bling Memories Curator’s Network, email [email protected]. Juan A. Gaitán at the Curatorial Intensive in Mexico City, Museo A. Gaitán at the Curatorial Intensive in Mexico City, Juan Jumex, June 30-July 7, 2014. Ebony G. Patterson, April 27, 2014, Kingston, Jamaica. Photo: Monique performance, Gilpin and Philip Rhoden 36 NETWORKS & ACCESS PUBLICATIONS 37

1990 Lombardi’s drawings map the complex and densely interwoven narratives of our post-imperial, transnational economy. Included in the exhibition were several monumental drawings, as well as Lombardi’s archive of 14,500 index cards on which Lombardi recorded his PUBLICATIONS research.

Hobbs’ incorporation of source material in the catalogue, For the past four decades, ICI has been dedicated to producing catalogues to accompany and the focus on a single artist provided a precedent its exhibitions, as well as publications that reflect on the latest developments of curatorial for the development of ICI’s Sourcebook series, which launched in 2011 with Martha Wilson Sourcebook. practice. Since 2011, ICI also launched two new publication series: the SOURCEBOOK Out of print series of artists-edited publications; and PERSPECTIVES IN CURATING, which offers timely reflections on emerging debates in curatorial practice, and debuted with the 2013 best-seller Thinking Contemporary Curating. Team Spirit

ICI was founded by two art world pioneers, Susan Sollins 1975 1987 and Nina Castelli Sundell, who together defined the vision behind one of the first organizations in the world to be dedicated to the work of curators. In 1990, they co-curated Team Spirit, which reflected on their own history of working together and focused on “the growing phenomenon of collaborative art.”

At the cusp of a new era of collaborative practice ushered in the late 1980s, the exhibition drew a genealogy of international collaborations as a mode of production going back to the mid-60s, including, Equipo Cronica, General Idea, Gilbert & George, and Komar & Melamid, creating a foundation of and imperative towards collaboration that continues to this day. Thinking Contemporary Curating

Sollins, Susan and Sundell, Nina Castelli, Team Spirit, Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to Morality Tales ICI, New York, 1990. Essays by Irit Rogoff and James offer an in-depth analysis of the volatile territory of Hillman. 84 pages. 9 x 11.5 in., softcover. Available international curatorial practice and the thinking—or A catalogue that accompanied ICI’s Morality Tales: through ICI’s website. insight—that underpins it. In five essays, renowned art VIDEOART U.S.A. History Painting in the 1980s, curated by Tom $19.99 historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today Sokolowski, this large publication reflects on the work curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, such ICI’s first exhibition, VIDEOART U.S.A. was curated by of Ida Applebroog, Eric Fischl, and Leon Golub, among 2003 as reimagining museums, writing the history of curating, Jack Boulton, and showcased artists who were pioneers others, with an essay by Sokolowski reviving the concept creating discursive platforms, and undertaking social or of the new medium, including Lynda Benglis, Nam June of istoria, or history painting, to make sense of the times. political activism, and rethinking spectatorship. Paik, Keith Sonnier, and Vito Acconci. The exhibition Faced with the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Sokolowski and served as the American representation in the São Paulo other curators and artists looked at history painting to The catalyst for the publication was “The Now Museum” Biennial, and was shown across Latin America from convey otherwise untold stories, largely ignored by the conference that ICI produced in collaboration with the 1975-76. The accompanying catalogue was produced in government and the media; and to set a record, one that CUNY Graduate Center and the New Museum in New Portuguese and in Spanish. is both historical and moral in nature. York in 2011. Over 30 leading artists, art historians, curators, museum directors took part such as Claire VIDEOART U.S.A. also provided the impetus for many Five years later, Sokolowski, together with Robert Atkins, Bishop, Okwui Enwezor (Director, Haus der Kunst), other ICI exhibitions including the CAPS/ICI Traveling curated ICI’s From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS, Massimiliano Gioni (Associate Director and Director of Video Festival curated by ICI Co-founder Nina Sundell which departed from Morality Tales’ focus on painting, Exhibitions, New Museum), Maria Lind (Director, Tensta (1981–84), and more recently Project 35 and Project 35 and presented 60 works in all media to explore the Konsthall) – many of whom later responded to Smith’s Volume 2 which have continued tracking contemporary intersection of art and activism. Artists included Kathe argument for a second volume authored by him, Talking approaches to the medium around the world. Burkhart, Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Contemporary Curating, forthcoming (2015). Out of print Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, and Gran Fury. Smith, Terry, Thinking Contemporary Curating, Sokolowski, Thomas W., Morality Tales: History Painting Mark Lombardi: Global Networks Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, in the 1980s, ICI, New York, 1987. 40 Pages 14 x 11 in., 2012. Introduction by Kate Fowle. 272 pages, 54 B&W hardcover. Published by Indian Publishing. Available Mark Lombardi: Global Networks was an ICI exhibition illustrations, softcover. Available through ICI’s website. through ICI’s website. that brought together for the first time twenty-five $19.95 $24.95 of Lombardi’s works spanning 1984 through 2000. 38 NETWORKS & ACCESS LIMITED EDITIONS 39 LIMITED EDITIONS Since 1990, ICI has commissioned limited edition artworks to raise funds for its programs, by artists including Marina Abramovi´c, Jacob Kassay, Robert Rauschenberg, and Laurie Simmons. Most recently, ICI teamed with Robert Burnier to introduce a new exclusive limited edition sculpture.

Jacob Kassay Louise Bourgeois Untitled #1, 2011 Ear, 2002 Silkscreen on archival newsprint Pink rubber 24 5/16 x 27 inches, each 4 x 8 x 91/4 inches Edition of 5 Edition of 20 with 3 APs

Robert Burnier same beginning structure. The combinations, however, Ne Aro, 2014 are more a product of circumscribed geometry, physical Primer on aluminum potential, and subjective decision than the space of set 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, approximately theory. Each edition is therefore unique. 1 in a series of 20, each unique In titling the work, Burnier made use of L. L. Zamenhof’s Robert Burnier‘s works are created within what he de- universal language of Esperanto, developed in the late scribes as an “anti-maquette” process. Sculpting the path 19th Century. “Ne Aro”, translates roughly as “Non Set”. of a visual landscape through bending, shaping, and Esperanto borrowed from existing linguistic traditions in warping material he aims to emphasize the non-linear, hope of providing a bridge to communicate. This organic Ernesto Neto Liz Glynn unpredictable relationship between the starting forms approach appeals in its attempt at universality without Once in Love, 2010 Untitled, 2013 and ending results. The challenge is presented by the erasure, without requiring a blank slate mentality, just as Wood and stocking filled with beads Gold-plated Bronze, Silver-plated materials he chooses, in this case sheet aluminum, and Burnier begins with a set structure of material. As well, 13 x 13 x 13 inches Bronze, and Plated Bronze necklace through his unmeditated interventions and intersections the translation speaks to the exploration of what combi- Edition of 20 with 5 APs 7 x 1 inches the form takes shape. With Ne Aro he explores the issue nations are available to us with and also outside of a giv- 3 Editions of 9, each unique of the identical, seeking multiple possibilities in a com- en discourse or architecture, similar to Burnier’s process. mon basis. Each piece is made complete from the exact 40 NETWORK & ACCESS ANNUAL BENEFIT 41 ANNUAL BENEFIT On Monday, November 17, 2014 ICI welcomed over 300 guests to its Annual Benefit & Auction to celebrate and support the organization’s international network of curators, artists, and art spaces. The event was held at the historic Cunard Building, whose frescos of world maps and sea routes provided a fitting, and majestic, setting for the celebrations.

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Held at the prestigious Cunard Building, the benefit was crafted by New York’s event designers Jung Lee and Josh Brooks of FÊTE, who shaped a magical evening inspired by the venue’s history. Dinner & Cocktails were designed by Cipriani. Highlights also included a very York New Agency, Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: David X Prutting / Billy Farrell Annual Benefit & ICI special performance by Stephen Petronio Company which kicked off the after party. ICI’s 2014 Benefit LIVE & SILENT AUCTION Committee, championed by Co-chairs Ann Cook, Belinda Kielland, Noreen K. Ahmad, and Bridget The evening featured a Live & Silent Auction powered Finn collaborated with ICI to create an unforgettable by ARTSY, and led by Gabriela Palmieri, Senior Vice soiree that both celebrated ICI’s accomplishments and President, Senior Specialist, Contemporary Art of built support for its future. Some of the world’s leading Sotheby’s, New York. ICI is proud to have benefited from curators and museum directors were in attendance the generosity of artists who have consistently shown to raise a glass to ICI and our honorees—Dimitris great confidence in ICI and support for its programs.

Daskalopoulos and Eva Barois de Caevel—including Paglan, Robert Longo, Trevor Armentrout, Bridget Finn, Josephine Nash, Jimmy Auction, November 17, 2014. P Annual Benefit & and Eddie Martinez. ICI York New Agency, hoto: David X Prutting / Billy Farrell Richard Armstrong, Iwona Blazwick, Stuart Comer, The 2014 Auction featured lots generously Suzanne Cotter, RoseLee Goldberg, Lisa Phillips, Jay donated by: Marina Abramović, Derrick Sanders, among many others. Adams, Diana Al-Hadid, Renate Aller, Grimanesa Amorós, Helene Appel, John Baldessari, Judith BENEFIT COMMITTEE Bernstein, Ryan Brown, Zoë Buckman, Lucky DeBellevue, Tara Donovan, David Flaugher, Benefit Host Committee: Richard Armstrong, María Rochelle Goldberg, Goldschmied & Chiari, John Constanza Cerullo, Agnes Gund, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Gordon Gauld, Valerie Hegarty, Jennie Jieun Lee, and Svetlana Uspenskaya Hanna Liden, Adam Marnie, Steve McQueen, Iván Navarro, Trevor Paglen, GT Pellizzi, Zoe Pettijohn Benefit Committee: Adam Abdalla, Augusto Arbizo, Schade, Mac Premo, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Analia Sarah Arison, Bethanie Brady, Jill Brienza, Jennifer Segal, Andres Serrano, Alyson Shotz, Dylan Brown, Rafael de Cárdenas, Carter Cleveland, James Spaysky, Kunié Sugiura, Peter Sutherland, Rikrit Cohan, Pippa Cohen, Bridget Donahue, Brian Faucette, Tiravanija, Jeffrey Tranchell, Oscar Tuazon, Leo Jack Geary and Dolly Bross Geary, Kavi Gupta, Villareal, Chuck Webster, Hank Willis Thomas, Saya Mackie Healy, Rhona Hoffman, Heather Hubbs, Anne Woolfalk, and Heeseop Yoon. Huntington, Tony Karman, Kate Krone, Sydie Lansing, Heidi Lee Komaromi, Rose Lord, Michele Maccarone, Liz Mulholland, Dimitris Paleocrassas, Simon Preston, Sangeetha Ramaswamy, Erica Redling, Nicole Russo, Ann & Mel Schaffer, Lisa Schiff, Mari Spirito, Susan Alaina Claire Feldman and Martha Wilson. ICI Annual Benefit & Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: Yuko Torihara for ICI Yuko Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: Annual Benefit & Alaina Claire Feldman and Martha Wilson. ICI Thompson, Courtney Treut Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: David X Annual Benefit & Adams. ICI Agnes Gund and Derrick York New Agency, Prutting / Billy Farrell 42 NETWORKS & ACCESS NETWORKS & ACCESS 43 ICI AWARDS LEADERSHIP At the Annual Benefit & Auction, ICI honored Dimitris Daskalopoulos with the 2014 LEO AWARD. The award was designed by artist Margaret Lee, and presented by ICI Trustee Emerita Agnes Gund. Independent Curator Eva Barois de Caevel, based in COUNCIL Paris and Dakar, was also honored with the 2014 GERRIT LANSING INDEPENDENT VISION AWARD, selected and presented by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and ICI’s extensive global presence would not be possible without the transformative role Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. of the LEADERSHIP COUNCIL. Established in 2013, the visionary group develops new initiatives that will elevate ICI to the next level. The members of the Leadership Council DIMITRIS DASKALOPOULOS EVA BAROIS DE CAEVEL share a passion for international perspectives on contemporary art and recognize the need for strong regional networks of curators and art spaces within ICI’s global scope. In this way, the Council works closely together with ICI to nurture the curatorial network from the inside out, and establishes the crucial foundations for the future of international exchange.

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The Council is crucial to shaping the trajectory of ICI’s public programs, exhibitions, and professional training opportunities in a unique way that is specialized to each member’s vision of contemporary art. ICI has expanded curatorial research opportunities in regions such as 2014 Leo Award recipient Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Photo: Trevor Trevor recipient Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Photo: Award 2014 Leo Leighton 2014 Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Award recipient Eva Barois Award 2014 Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: Annual Benefit & de Cavel. ICI York New Agency, David X Prutting / Billy Farrell Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean through the ICI Leadership Fund; and has allowed ICI to engage with Dimitris Daskalopoulos is a collector of contemporary art, Eva Barois De Caevel is an independent curator based in the largest audience in the organization’s history through founder of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection (1994), and Paris, assistant curator at Raw Material Company, Dakar, the redesign of ICI’s online platform. In the last year, founder of NEON (2013)—a “foundation without walls”, and co-founder of Cartel de Kunst, an international the members of the Leadership Council were involved which works to bring contemporary culture in Greece collective of emerging curators. Recent projects include: in nearly all of the many facets of the organization. closer to everyone. He is also a member of the Board of Avant-Garden, FIAC (2014); The Floating Admiral in The Leadership Council supported the broad reach of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Nouvelle Vagues, Palais de Tokyo (2013); Who Said ICI’s exhibitions and publications, as well as pioneering Chairman of the Collections Council of the Solomon It Was Simple, part of a series with Raw Material programs in education and curatorial research. It also R. Guggenheim Foundation, and active member of the Company that explores culture, community, and sexual developed new fundraising opportunities and created Tate International Council, the Director’s Vision Council liberties in Senegal. Upcoming in 2015, Barois De scholarship funds that are critical for emerging curators to of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Caevel collaborations with Raw Material Company’s attend the Curatorial Intensive internationally. Leadership Council of the New Museum, and a founding artistic director Koyo Kouoh will continue with Body partner of the Whitechapel’s Future Fund. Talk - Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of THE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL African Women Artists at WIELS in Brussels and with With the Leo Award, ICI recognizes outstanding Streamlines at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Barois De Sarina Tang achievements in advancing the field of contemporary art. Caevel graduated from the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne ICI Board of Trustee’s International Representative In recent years, Mr. Daskalopoulos created remarkably Paris IV in contemporary art history and curatorial Peter Brant supportive environments for contemporary artists training. James Cohan and curators through the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Agnes Gund and NEON. Both entities promote the dissemination Barois De Caevel was selected by Nancy Spector, Alexei Kuzmichev and Svetlana Kuzmicheva- of contemporary art to broad audiences, treating Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Uspenskaya the collection as an open resource, conceiving the Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from Dorothy Lichtenstein organization as a vessel for exhibitions and education, a list of 15 emerging curators, each nominated by one Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin

and connecting artists, curators and audiences from of 15 curators and ICI collaborators from across ICI’s York New Agency, Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: David X Prutting / Billy Farrell Annual Benefit & Agnes Gund. ICI Nicole Gallo and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros across the globe. This echoes ICI’s core mission in so international network. Mercedes Vilardell many ways. —Agnes Gund For more information about the Leadership Council, contact Jenn Hyland Helen Warwick at [email protected]. 44 NETWORKS & ACCESS NETWORKS & ACCESS 45 INTL FORUM THE

The INTERNATIONAL FORUM brings together an exclusive group of people who share ICI’s mission and global reach. Whether near or far, patrons of the Forum stay connected to the curators and artists who shape the contemporary art world, and gain INDEPENDENTS behind-the-scenes access to ICI programs in New York, select international exhibitions, biennials, and art fairs around the world. ICI connects curators, artists and art spaces to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration. THE INDEPENDENTS is an invitation-only membership Join ICI’s International Forum and support a truly group of dynamic individuals active in the contemporary art world who support the international art organization that is active in 44 countries with access to the curators, artists and art spaces that organization’s programs and vision for the future. are keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary art. In New York, the International Forum connects directly The Independents is a membership group for PAST EVENTS to ICI’s programs through ICI Conversations, a series cultural influencers and those actively connected of exclusive events, site visits, cocktails, and dinners to the contemporary art world. This invitation-only Video Screening & Cocktails with María Elena Ortiz with international curators and artists held throughout membership group offers insights into new approaches January 29, 2015 the year. As a member of the International Forum, you to contemporary art and culture by connecting with will receive recommendations on the places to visit and emerging and established curators, artists, collectors, Associate Curator of the Perez Art Museum Miami curators to meet when traveling independently. Finally, and leading figures in the art world. (PAMM) María Elena Ortiz presented her research into each December during NADA Miami Beach, the Forum the Caribbean that resulted from the 2014 Colección meets with other ICI collaborators, Leadership Council Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC)/ICI Travel Award at members, the ICI Board of Trustees, guest curators, and the Anthology Film Archive in New York. Ortiz presented artists at the Annual Miami Luncheon. Annual Miami Luncheon, with special guest Hans Ulrich Guests at ICI’s Obrist, December 5, 2013. Photo courtesy of ICI. Video Islands, a program of artists’ video works from Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Martinique, Trinidad and PAST EVENTS UPCOMING EVENTS Tobago; which was followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by ICI’s María Del Carmen Carríon. The event EXPO Chicago Venice Biennale was followed with more private conversations about September 18–21, 2014 May 6–9, 2015 the work, with curators, artists, and other patrons at the nearby Experimental Cocktail Club. ICI gathered in Chicago this fall on the occasion of Together with Fabrica, ICI has invited curators from EXPO, the Chicago Fair of Contemporary and Modern around the world to meet in Treviso on the occasion of Discussion & Dinner with Tavares Strachan Art, and the fair’s IN/SITU section of large-scale the Venice Biennale to host a conversation between February 10, 2015 installations, which was selected by ICI’s Executive some of the contemporary art world’s most forward- Director Renaud Proch. International Forum members thinking constituents. Forum members who are planning New York-based artist Tavares Strachan spoke about his joined us for gallery walks, collection visits, and private to visit the Biennale will receive ICI’s recommendations work at the Curatorial Hub, and joined the Independents dinners with curators and artists including: Glenn Kaino, and invitations to special events. and their guests as well as ICI Trustees for a special Mickalene Thomas, and Franklin Sirmans. dinner in Tribeca, and more intimate conversations about Patrons Trip to Moscow and St Petersburg his practice. Following the success of his recent work

NADA Miami June 9–16, 2015 Auction, November 17, 2014. Photo: David X Prutting / Annual Benefit & nne Huntington. ICI York New Agency, Billy Farrell You Belong Here at Prospect.3 in New Orleans, this was December 4–7, 2014 an opportunity to connect more directly with the artist on The trip will coincide with the Grand Opening of Garage’s CONNECT TO ICI past and future projects. ICI hosted its Annual Miami Luncheon on the terrace of new museum building designed by Rem Koolhaas Canyon Ranch in honor of Chicago-based artist Robert and give us behind-the-scenes access to some of the With direct access to ICI programs and professionals The Independents nominate new members on a regular basis. Individuals are selected to join based on their creative contributions and dedication to Burnier. Guests enjoyed delicious food and cocktails to grandest museum collections in Europe, and to the in ICI’s international network, the Independents gain the contemporary art world. For more information about the Independents, launch Burnier’s exclusive ICI Limited Edition Ne Aro. latest in Russian contemporary art: meet the artists and a broader perspective on the latest developments in a contact Jenn Hyland at [email protected]. curators who shape the scene, and experience Garage’s global art world, through shared reading, educational programs, which have fostered some of the most driven programs and social events. The Independents also play art and curatorial practices in Russia in the past couple a key role in supporting new engagement with ICI and of years. its programs around the world, connecting in the process with ICI’s staff, Board of Trustees and other patrons. For more information about the International Forum and the spring calendar, contact Jenn Hyland at [email protected]. 46 NETWORKS & ACCESS NETWORKS & ACCESS 47 PATRONS THANK YOU We would like to thank all of the individuals and foundations whose generous contributions continue to make possible our programs worldwide. As we celebrate our EVENTS 40th anniversary, we also pay homage to the leadership and generosity of the trustees who shaped ICI over the past four decades. ICI CONVERSATIONS is a thought-provoking series of patrons’ events that give exclusive ICI TRUSTEES FROM 1975 TO TODAY Eller Gallery, Tara Donovan, Josh Elkes, The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation, Fabrica, T.A. Fassburg, Bridget access to the people—artists, curators, critics, collectors, and museum directors—who Burton Aaron, Jan Abrams, Diane Ackerman, Noreen Finn, David Flaugher, Maxine & Stuart Frankel, Mary influence contemporary art today. ICI CONVERSATIONS is a way for our members K. Ahmad, Helen Allen, Steven Ames, Donna Ari, Garis, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, John Gordon Gauld, John Baldessari, Douglas Baxter, Jeffery Bishop, Jack Jack & Dolly Geary, Arthur & Carol Goldberg, Rochelle to gain an insider’s perspective on ICI, and is their access point to contemporary art Boulton, Catherine Brawer, Jill Brienza, Earle Brown, Goldberg, Suzanne & John Golden, Goldschmied & from around the world. ICI hosts approximately 10–12 private events a year, which are Jason Briggs, Leslie Cecil, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Chiari, Jay Gorney, Sarah Goulet, Taymour Grahne, James Cohan, Joseph Cohen, Ann Cook, Susan Coote, Regina & Peter Gross, Victoria Gross, Agnes Gund, dedicated to connecting our donors to the contemporary art community in meaningful Douglas Cramer, Anne Dayton, Ann Ehrenkranz, T.A. Holly J. Hager, Sabrina Hahn, Lynn & Martin Halbfinger, and significant ways. Fassburg, Nina Felshin, Ann ffolliott, Arthur Fleischer, Susan Hapgood, The Hartfield Foundation, Mackie Healy, Jr., Susan Fleischer, Maxine Frankel, Hugh Freund, Valerie Hegarty, Lesley & Evan Heller, Astrid Hill, Jessica Tom Freundenheim, Gil Friesen, Jack Geary, Carol Hodin, Rhona Hoffman, Jenny Holmes, Stephanie Hoos, UPCOMING EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Goldberg, John Gossage, Jeannie Minskoff Grant, Hunter Alixandra Hornyan, Heather Hubbs, Anne Huntington, C. Gray, Marilyn Greene, Agnes Gund, Inmaculada de Phil Isles, Meg & Howard Jacobs, James Cohan Gallery, Conversation & Champagne with Zoë Buckman Habsburgo, Peter Halley, Susan Hancock, Robert Hardy, Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts Gallery, Tony Karman, Margie March 7, 2015 Jan Hashey, Sheila Isham, Jerry Jasinowski, Howard & Donald Karp, Joan & David Katsky, Kasia Kay, Susi Johnson, Ruth Kainen, Dorothy Kidder, Belinda Buck Kenna, Belinda Buck Kielland, Marika Kielland, Kibum Patrons are invited to join ICI in conversation with Kielland, Elizabeth M. Klein, Luisa Kreisberg, Kenneth Kim, Sooja Kim, Michael L. Klein, Bettina Korek, Kristen British artist Zoë Buckman as we walk through her S. Kuchin, Gerrit Lansing, Sydie Lansing, Jo Carole Lorello, Susan Kroeger, Alexey Kuzmichev & Svetlana solo exhibition, Present Life, at Garis & Hahn Gallery. Lauder, Ray Learsy, Caral G. Lebworth, Laure Lim, Isaac Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, Sims Lansing, Jo Carole Buckman will speak of her exploration of femininity and Lustgarten, Mary Maher, Penny McCall, Andrea Miller, Lauder, Heidi Lee, Jennie Jieun Lee, Pablo Leon de mortality. Robin Moll, Vik Muniz, Richard E. Perlman, Michael Rea, la Barra, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Daniel Aaron Richardson, Dorothea Rockburne, Deedie Rose, Lichtenberg, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Hanna Liden, Discussion & Dinner with Naomi Beckwith Lela Rose, Alvin Rosenbaum, Ian Rowan, Ann Schaffer, Alexander Logsdail, Andrea Lounibos, Ellen Chesler & March 10, 2015 Mel Schaffer, Irwin Schloss, Marcia Schloss, Douglas Matthew Mallow, Iris Marden, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Schwalbe, Robert Shapiro, Patterson Sims, Martin Sklar, Marian Goodman Gallery, Adam Marnie, Michael Yona Backer, Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle Coffey. ICI Conversations. Franklin Sirmans, and Michelle Coffey. Backer, Yona York. March 24, 2014, New Join Naomi Beckwith, Curator at the Museum of Susan Sollins, Nina Castelli Sundell, Melville Straus, Maxwell, Matthew McNuty, Steve McQueen, Bee & Contemporary Art Chicago, in New York for a Curator’s James Sollins, Marcy Syms, Sarina Tang, Baraba Toll, Gregor Medinger, Turid Meeker, Julie Mehretu & Jessica Perspective talk on her upcoming projects and research Ken Tyburski, Arvin Upton, Robert Wallis, Robin Wright, Rankin, Metro Pictures, Mike Weiss Gallery, Jonathan around black culture, nationalism, and race in the art Virginia Wright Miller, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Celine Mo, Iván Navarro, world. The discussion will be followed by an intimate Christina Pacetti, Trevor Paglen, GT Pellizzi, Ruth Miles dinner with curators and patrons. SPECIAL THANKS TO THE INDIVIDUAL DONORS, Pite, Prada Foundation, Mac Premo, Louise Puschel, GALLERIES, ARTISTS, AND FOUNDATIONS THAT Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Sangeetha Ramaswamy, Erica Cocktails & Conversation with Yinka Shonibare SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS Redling, Emily Reifel, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, April 29, 2015 Aldo & Constanza Cerullo Rubino, Sterling Ruby, 47 Canal, Adam Abdalla, Marina Abramović, Eleanor Jane Sadaka, SAHA Derneği, Andrew & Denise Saul, James Cohan Gallery will host a cocktail reception and Acquavella, Derrick Adams, Diana Al-Hadid, Renate Barbara Schwartz, Analia Segal, Andres Serrano, Alyson Q&A with London-based artist Yinka Shonibare and Aller, Grimanesa Amorós, Helena Anrather, Helene Shotz, Katy Homans, Suzanne Slesin, Dylan Spaysky, Smithsonian curator Karen Milbourne. In celebration of Appel, Augusto Arbizo, Sarah Arison, Richard Armstrong, James Stanton, Halsey Stebbins, Tasha Sterling, Heiko his exhibition, Rage of the Ballet Gods, ICI patrons will Tiqui Atericio, Annie Auchincloss, Elizabeth Baker, John Stoiber, Jovana Stokic, Andrew Stone, Kunié Sugiura, have the opportunity to meet with the artist, curator, and Baldessari, Henri Barguirdjian, Patricia Bell, Barbara & Peter Sutherland, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Rebecca other guests. Bruce Berger, Elizabeth Berman, Judith Bernstein, Linda Taylor, Max Teicher, Carolee Thea, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Ellen Staller, and Elizabeth Grady. ICI Summer and Elizabeth Grady. Ellen Staller, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Agency, Aria Isadora / Billy Farrell Cocktails, July 16, 2014. 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