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ICI Brochure Spring 2012.Pdf INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL SPRING/SUMMER 2012 PROGRAM INDE PEN DENT PRAC TICE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Welcome 2 Spring/Summer 2012 Calendar EXHIBITIONS 4 Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) 6 Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978–86 7 Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5 ICI 8 With Hidden Noise 9 FAX 10 The California Experiment: New Art Circa 1970 12 Performance Now 14 Martha Wilson 16 Create 18 Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture 20 Project 35 22 do it 24 People’s Biennial EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS 26 Curatorial Intensive 28 Partner Programs 32 Alumni Updates 33 Curatorial Research 34 DISPATCH 36 Thinking Contemporary Curating 38 The Curator’s Perspective 40 The Critical Edge of Curating 42 Curating Worldwide 43 The Curatorial Hub 44 ICI Curatorial Library NETWORKS & ACCESS 45 The Curator’s Network Editor: Mandy Sa Reproduction rights: You are free to 46 ICI Limited Editions Designer: Scott Ponik copy, display, and distribute the contents Copy editor: Audrey Walen of the publication under the following 48 ICI Conversations Printing: Linco Printing, Queens, NY conditions: You must attribute the work 50 International Forum or any portion of the work reproduced Big thanks to: Doryun Chong, Sheryl to the author, and ICI, giving the article 51 2011 Annual Fall Benefit Conkelton, Sarah Demeuse, Hou Hanru, and publication title and date. If you 52 Thank You Rodrigo Moura, Sofía Olascoaga, Jack alter, transform, or build upon this work, Persekian, Yasmil Raymond, Lucía you may distribute the resulting work 54 Access Fund Sanromán, Terry Smith, and Anton only under a license identical to this 55 Access ICI Vidokle. one, and only if it is stated that the work has been altered and in what way. For 56 Booking Information © 2012 Independent Curators any reuse or distribution you must make International (ICI), and the authors. clear to others the license terms of this work. You must inform the copyright holder and editor of any reproduction, display, or distribution of any part of this publication. To receive a downloadable pdf version of this publication, or more copies by mail, contact Mandy Sa, Communications Manager, at [email protected]. Above (top): Independent Curators International in Tribeca, New York, NY; (bottom): Dead Letters Office Hours at the ICI Curatorial Hub, February 10, 2012. INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL 1 WELCOME On behalf of all the staff at means in curating today, which was continued in the Independent Curators International pages of Mousse Magazine (February 2012) and will be (ICI), it gives me great pleasure to further explored during another residency this spring at welcome you to our semi-annual the Gertrude Contemporary in Australia. ICI is excited brochure. This issue marks a to be developing numerous international partnerships milestone for ICI, following 2 years including a travel award for curatorial research in Central of development in new programs America and the Caribbean in collaboration with the and international collaborations that Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; a program of have enabled us to better achieve Curatorial Intensives with the Instituto Inhotim, Minas our mission: to connect emerging and established Gerais, Brazil, and the Ullens Center for Contemporary curators, artists, and institutions through the production Art, Bejing, China; and a curatorial fellowship with the of exhibitions, events, and publications, and to provide Institut Français to be hosted by ICI in New York. opportunities for curatorial training. Read on to find out everything you need to know about Last year, in particular, was an eventful one for ICI. We upcoming ICI events, training programs, exhibitions and launched the Curatorial Hub, which provides a unique membership opportunities in the coming months, as well meeting point, event space, and temporary operational as updates on the results of our activities last fall. Finally, base in New York for curators from across the U.S. I want to extend a sincere thank you to Ellen Liman and and around the world. The redesigned ICI website also the Liman Foundation for again making the production of went live, and quickly became the virtual hub of all our this brochure possible. activities. While our physical Hub encourages dialogue between curators and artists, critics, and other art aficionados, the website has become the portal through which information is widely disseminated, including edited videos of recent curatorial conferences, ICI’s online journal DISPATCH, and information about professional opportunities that are shared through the Curator’s Network. Through these two complimentary public forums, ICI has consolidated its position internationally, both as platform and a resource for curators, and is now the “go to” place for people who want to know what’s Kate Fowle happening in contemporary art worldwide. Executive Director Independent Curators International Building on ICI’s history of providing curators with a platform from which to make and present exhibitions, today ICI affords multiple opportunities for curators to publicly share their research on artists and the socio- political contexts that affect their practices. Additionally, through the newly established Curatorial Intensive training programs, ICI has created much-needed professional resources. Throughout 2012 these curatorial resources will be extended with pilot programs including a research fellowship, a curatorial library, a travel award, and a new series of publications titled Perspectives on Curating. Reflecting increased interest in ICI’s activities globally, last summer ICI was invited for a residency at the South London Gallery in the U.K., where we presented two projects that exemplify how generative exhibitions create new networks, FAX and Project 35, alongside the first iteration of the ICI Reading Room. During this residency we also launched a new discussion series on the increasingly important subject of what “international” 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2012 CALENDAR MARCH EVENTS CURATORIAL INTENSIVE Project 35 June 2011–June 2012 ICI CONVERSATIONS Curatorial Intensive: The Wild Imaginings SPACE Gallery Building the Collection: Wednesday, March 22–Thursday, March 23 Portland, Maine Howard Rachofsky and Allan Schwartzman Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative June 7, 2011–June 24, 2012 Thursday, March 8, 5:30–7:30pm The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Sotheby’s, New York Fine Arts Springfield, Massachusetts Book Launch & Curator Talk EXHIBITIONS September 2011–September 2012 Hou Hanru: Paradigm Shifts The College of Wooster Art Museum Saturday, March 10, 4–6pm Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, Wooster, Ohio The Curatorial Hub, New York 1978–86 March 7–28 People’s Biennial Dialogues in Contemporary Art: Take 1 Visual Arts Center January 27, 2011–March 2, 2012 In Collaboration with AhmadyArts Boise State University, Boise, Idaho Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Tuesday, March 13, 7–8:30pm Haverford College The Curatorial Hub, New York FAX Haverford, Pennsylvania February 26–April 5 RIVET READING GROUP University of Hawaii Art Gallery Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso Honolulu, Hawaii Wednesday, March 14, 7–8:30pm March 2–June 23 The Curatorial Hub, New York Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Salt Lake City, Utah THE CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE Rosina Cazali Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) Saturday, March 17, 3–4:30pm March 10–May 12 New Museum, New York Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco, California ICI CONVERSATIONS March 16–June 8 Critical Outlook: Lindsay Pollock, Ben Museo de Arte de Sinaloa Lerner, and Richard Vine Sinaloa, Mexico Monday, March 26, 6:30–8pm Art in America, New York APRIL EVENTS CURATORIAL INTENSIVE Project 35 June 2011–June 2012 HUB EVENT Curatorial Intensive: The Wild Imaginings SPACE Gallery Connie Lewallen and William Wegman Thursday, April 12 Portland, Maine Tuesday, April 3, 6:30–8pm Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative June 7, 2011–June 24, 2012 The Curatorial Hub, New York The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts RIVET READING GROUP The Curatorial Intensive: Inhotim Springfield, Massachusetts Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso Sunday, April 22–Saturday, April 28 September 2011–September 2012 Wednesday, April 11, 7–8:30pm Instituto Inhotim The College of Wooster Art Museum The Curatorial Hub, New York Minas Gerais, Brazil Wooster, Ohio April 1–29, 2012 ICI CONVERSATIONS CentrePascu Art Curators’ Top Picks Under 35: Suzanne EXHIBITIONS Biel, Switzerland Cotter, Neville Wakefield, and João Ribas FAX Monday, April 16, 6:30–8pm February 26–April 5 Sotheby’s, New York University of Hawaii Art Gallery Honolulu, Hawaii Journal Launch and Curator Talk March 2–June 23 ArteEast: Iran Issue Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Saturday, April 28, 3–4:30pm Salt Lake City, Utah The Curatorial Hub, New York Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) The Curatorial Intensive Symposium: March 10–May 12 Inhotim Kadist Art Foundation Saturday, April 28 San Francisco, California Instituto Inhotim March 16–June 8 Minas Gerais, Brazil Museo de Arte de Sinaloa Sinaloa, Mexico SPRING/SUMMER 2012 3 MAY–JUNE EVENTS ICI CONVERSATIONS Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) Dinner at the Home of Eileen and Michael March 10–May 12 ICI CONVERSATIONS Cohen with Richard Armstrong Kadist Art Foundation The Artist’s Voice: Kerstin Brätsch and Wednesday, May 30, 6:30–9pm San Francisco, California Massimiliano Gioni Home of Eileen and Michael Cohen, March 16–June 8 Wednesday, May 2, 6:30–8pm New York Museo de Arte de Sinaloa Gavin
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