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
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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. 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 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.