Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility Morning Session: Sunday, October 15, 2000 Edited by Paula Marincola
QUESTIONS OF PRACTICE Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility Morning Session: Sunday, October 15, 2000 Edited by Paula Marincola THE PEW CENTER FOR ARTS & HERITAGE / PCAH.US / @PEWCENTER_ARTS PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITIONS INITIATIVE CURATING NOW MORNING SESSION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2000 Institute of Contemporary Art 124 RESPONSE Dave Hickey > Writer and art critic, Professor of Art Criticism and Theory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas It’s very nice to be here in Philadelphia. I was trying to think of the turn on W.C. Fields’s epitaph—that, probably, on the whole, I’d rather be dead. But that’s not it, since I really appreciate this opportunity.Although I have to doubt the wisdom of The Pew Charitable Trusts in bringing a person like myself here to address a group of people who represent more capital leverage, more institu- tional authority, and more political power than the entire continent of Latin America. Here’s what Pew has done:They have asked a private citizen, who lives in a small apartment in a small city in the middle of the desert, who teaches at a small university where they don’t like him, who writes periodical art journalism, the weakest kind of writing you can do, to respond to your discussions of curat- ing.And so I shall, and you may take everything I say with that very large grain of salt. I realize, as I look around, that I am probably the senior person in this room, so the future is almost certainly yours. I do, however, have thirty-five years of experience in various ghettos of the art world.
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