INDEpENDENT CUrATorS INTErNATIoNAl SprINg 2014 progrAM INTER NA TION AL ACCESS TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 welcome 2 Spring/Summer 2014 Calendar
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4 Free play 6 do it 8 project 35: Volume 2 10 performance Now 12 En Mas’: Carnival 21st Century Style 13 Martha wilson 14 living as Form (The Nomadic Version) 16 with Hidden Noise 17 Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5 18 Create 19 State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 pUBlIC progrAMS & rESEArCH
20 Curatorial Intensive 24 reporting 26 Alumni Updates 28 research Fellowships 32 Curator’s perspective 33 reporting 34 Curatorial Hub
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36 Curator’s Network Editor: laurel Voss 38 Allen ruppersberg Sourcebook Designer: Scott ponik 40 limited Editions Copy Editor: Audrey walen printing: linco printing, Queens, NY 44 International Forum © 2014 Independent Curators 45 leadership Council International (ICI) and the authors. 46 Thank You 47 Access ICI Big thanks to: Miguel Amado, remco de Blaaij, willem Elias, Fanny gonella, and 48 Booking Information Nato Thompson.
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In the catalogue that accompanied Halfway across the world, the works in Project 35 Latin American tour (Video Art USA, 1975), curator Jack Boulton wrote Curatorial Intensive in Africa, which will focus on the art production and international connections currently devel- different cultures and people in a factors other than art have precipitated this international concentration, contemporary art practice continues to - tors, artists, and art spaces, ICI continues to promote the in different languages; and the commitment of ICI’s Board of Trustees to develop the organization’s mission programs relevant, important, and make them pos- translate ideas, moving them across the map; rather, they - at museums and galleries around the world; the trusts Foundation, the French Institute; and the many vision- Project 35 is Leadership Council, which in the past year alone - that shape ICI today (please see pages 45-46 for a it was shown in the past few months in 4 art spaces in - this spring in ARC, a magazine of contemporary research and training opportunities, online programs, when ICI has renewed its commitment to curatorial re- search in the region with the third annual ICI / Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central - Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Suriname, since Renaud Proch - Thompson have taken place, starting in the Dominican En Mas’ 2 CALENDAR
MARCH CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS Performance Now INTENSIVE Living as Form (The Curatorial Intensive: Nomadic Version) Museum of Art Considering Publics & Contexts March 7, 2014 March 16–25 Artport Tel Aviv Project 35: Volume 2 (Tel Aviv, Israel) March 5–April 16 HUB EVENTS Acadia University Art Pablo León de la Barra Carpenter Center for Tuesday, March 4, the Visual Arts, Harvard University Free Play Curatorial Intensive Arcadia University Art Symposium: do it Considering Publics & Contexts Utah Museum of Tuesday, March 25, Contemporary Art 10am–6pm (Salt Lake City, UT)
Create Museum of Art, University
APRIL EVENT EXHIBITIONS Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) The Curator’s do it Perspective Carpenter Center for Maria Hlavajova Utah Museum of the Visual Arts, Harvard Tuesday, April 1, Contemporary Art University (Salt Lake City, UT) The New School April 15–May 15 (New York, NY) Contemporary Art College Victoria Noorthoorn (Moscow, Russia) (Yellow Springs, OH) Thursday, April 17, Create Performance Now Einstein Auditorium, NYU Steinhardt Museum of Art, (New York, NY) Museum of Art University HUB EVENTS Project 35: Volume 2 Masum Momaya: Free Play Beyond Bollywood Acadia University Art Thursday, April 24, Arcadia University Art
MAY–JUNE EVENTS CURATORIAL With Hidden Noise INTENSIVES Hub Event—Off Site: Screening and Curatorial Intensive Conversation with in Addis Ababa Stephen Vitiello May 27–July 26 Anthology Film Archives Art Center University of Minnesota (New York, NY) (Minneapolis, MN)
Book Launch: Curatorial Intensive Living as Form Allen Ruppersberg in Mexico (The Nomadic Version) Sourcebook April 15–May 15 College (New York, NY) (Yellow Springs, OH) EXHIBITIONS ICI Conversations: With Hidden Noise do it Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND) Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Project 35: Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT) May 4–25 Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design Contemporary Art (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) (Moscow, Russia)
JULY–AUGUST HUB EVENT Curatorial Intensive With Hidden Noise in Moscow Summer Cocktails Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia) May 27–July 26 EVENT EXHIBITIONS University of Minnesota Online Summer (Minneapolis, MN) Book Sale do it CURATORIAL Contemporary Art INTENSIVES (Moscow, Russia)
Curatorial Intensive Living as Form in Mexico (The Nomadic Version) Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND)
Performance Now Delaware Art Museum 4 EXHIBITIONS FREE PLAY Curated by Melissa E. Feldman “No vital periods ever began from a theory. What’s first is a game, a struggle, a journey.”—Guy Debord Seeking the initial moment described by Debord, FREE PLAY explores the work of artists who borrow from play and games to reveal social, philosophical, and cultural issues. From playfulness to mathematical strategy, the artists in FREE PLAY have mined the significance of games, reinventing them to create experiences, often meant to involve the viewer, that reflect on the nature of participation in art.
Artistic processes tied to game playing have historically CURATOR attracted the avant-garde, most famously the chess Art in also intrinsic to the work of war-addled Surrealists and America, Frieze, and Aperture Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre (2012), organized to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art (2010), Sampler: Textiles at Creative Growth College, London, and is credited with organizing the mystically inclined may gravitate toward Allan McCollum 1990s as a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art,