Independent Curators International Spring/Summer 2020
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Independent Spring/Summer Curators 2020 International SPRING/SUMMER 2020 APRIL CALENDAR Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) MARCH Through April 12 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Publishing Against the Grain Serenity of Madness Blue Star Contemporary Taipei Fine Arts Museum (San Antonio, TX) (Taipei, Taiwan) Through May 3 Through March 15 Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Science and Collections Chicano L.A. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College Michigan State University (Gambier, OH) (East Lansing, MI) Through April 12 Through August 23 Publishing Against the Grain Wanda Nanibush Blue Star Contemporary James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center (San Antonio, TX) (New York, NY) Through May 3 April 22 Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections MAY Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University Publishing Against the Grain (East Lansing, MI) Blue Star Contemporary Through August 23 (San Antonio, TX) Through May 3 Curator’s Perspective: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Americas Society Science and Collections (New York, NY) Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at March 7 Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) Pablo José Ramírez Through August 23 ICI New York March 10 4th Annual Independents Spring Benefit New York, NY May 20 Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener, Canada) Opens May 29 JUNE Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Michigan State University (Kitchener, Canada) (East Lansing, MI) Through August 9 Through August 23 Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Publishing Against the Grain Science and Collections Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Prishtina Michigan State University Summer School as School 2020 (East Lansing, MI) (Prishtina, Kosovo) Through August 23 Opens August 3 do it JULY A4 Art Museum (Chengdu, China) Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts Opens August 8 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener, Canada) Through August 9 Check out ICI’s website for more Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of upcoming programs announced Science and Collections throughout the year, and to sign up Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at for our mailing list. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) curatorsintl.org Through August 23 Summer Cocktails (New York, NY) July 8 Seeing Sound Kadist (San Francisco, CA) Opens July 8 AUGUST Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener, Canada) Through August 9 Seeing Sound Kadist (San Francisco, CA) Through August 22 WELCOME Connected to more than 70 countries, ICI forms an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources—promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness of the curator’s role. ICI’s exhibitions, public events, and professional development programs travel to cities around the world, forging lasting curatorial collaborations, and generating new knowledge about art in different cultural contexts. Over time and across borders, ICI programs inform each other to create a multiplicity of perspectives on a subject and reflect the full complexity of art today. For example, ICI has developed over the past year programs that consider Indigenous knowledge systems in curatorial and artistic practices, including a recent Curatorial Intensive in Aotearoa/New Zealand; an upcoming New York program with Wanda Nanibush, an Anishinaabe-kwe curator; SOUNDINGS, an exhibition of new commissions by Indigenous artists from North America, curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson; and a CPPC research fellowship supporting Pablo José Ramírez’s curatorial research into Garifuna art and culture. This Spring, ICI will launch an expanded program of Curatorial Research Fellowships that will further this type of accumulation of knowledge across programs, while also supporting curators with professional development and mentorship opportunities. In the Summer we will debut our latest exhibition, SEEING SOUND—curated by Barbara London, a pioneer in the field of new media—that explores the recent trajectory of sound as art through the work of artists from New York, London, Bogotá, Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It introduces new technologies, developed by Nokia Bell Labs with the artists in the show, and it builds on ICI’s own history of championing the latest advancements in the field of new media since our very first video art exhibition in 1975, and more recently with exhibitions such as WHAT SOUND DOES A COLOR MAKE? (2005–07) curated by Kathleen Ford, and WITH HIDDEN NOISE (2011–15) curated by Stephen Vitiello. I would like to take this opportunity to thank ICI’s extraordinary Board of Trustees, a growing group of dynamic visionaries whose leadership and dedication drive ICI’s mission forward. This past year, we have welcomed eight new Trustees to the Board, mirroring ICI’s own expansion. Their endorsement of our work brings new energy to it. I also want thank everyone who makes ICI what it is today: the curators, the artists, our collaborators, art spaces, and all those who connect with ICI programs in person, in print, or online; the trusts and foundations that support us; the many individuals who make our programs possible, especially the members of the Leadership Council, the International Forum, and the Independents; and of course ICI’s staff, working tirelessly to forge new collaborations every day and support new voices and perspectives in art and the curatorial field. —Renaud Proch Executive & Artistic Director TABLE OF CONTENTS EXHIBITIONS CURATORIAL INTENSIVE AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS 8 SEEING SOUND 10 NEVER SPOKEN 36 CURATORIAL AGAIN INTENSIVE 14 SOUNDINGS: 38 PAST PROGRAM: AN EXHIBITION IN CAPE TOWN FIVE PARTS 42 ALUMNI UPDATES 16 DO IT 44 CURATORIAL FORUM 18 AXIS MUNDO 46 RESEARCH 20 PUBLISHING FELLOWSHIPS AGAINST THE GRAIN SUPPORT ICI 22 APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL 52 GET INVOLVED! 24 TALKING TO ACTION 54 THE INDEPENDENTS 56 LIMITED EDITIONS PUBLIC EVENTS 58 ANNUAL BENEFIT 28 NEW YORK & AUCTION PROGRAMS 62 THANK YOU 30 CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE 32 COMRADESHIP EXHIBITIONS 6 Exhibitions are the meeting point of art and audiences, where new perspectives can be experienced through the work of artists. Since 1975, ICI exhibitions have shared the practice of more than 4,000 artists in countries around the world, including Argentina, Afghanistan, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Jamaica, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Thailand and more. Wherever they take place, ICI exhibitions have the potential to build a shared understanding of artistic practice and are solid foundations for exchange in the curatorial field. Our projects connect art spaces to their audiences and art scenes to one another, across social, political, and cultural borders. Today, ICI exhibitions are the result of collaborations with hosting institutions and curators. They are conceived to reflect our times, adapt to their changing contexts, and generate new content and propositions at every venue. 7 Tours through 2024 demonstrate the effort and individuality within musical compositions. Bani Haykal Seeing Sound and Aura Satz seek to present multiple interpretations of language through their interactive artworks made of everyday Curated by Barbara London technologies (e.g. the telephone and computer). Through familiar interfaces, Seth Cluett, Juan Cortés, Iain Forsyth the artists imaginatively translate and and Jane Pollard, Bani Haykal, redefine words, sounds, and music. Yuko Mohri, Marina Rosenfeld, Seth Cluett’s video installation the Aura Satz, and Samson Young stratified character of nature and Juan Cortés’s interactive installation Seeing Sound is an immersive exhibi- Supralunar, use sound to probe magical tion that explores the recent trajectory impressions of the Universe and trans- of sound as a dynamic branch of con- port viewers to specific places, while temporary art practice, curated by one Yuko Mohri and Marina Rosenfeld use of the most influential curators of new sound to create visual ecosystems to media art, the founder of the Video- situate their mixed-media sculptures. media Exhibition & Collection Programs Mohri’s You Locked Me Up in a Grave, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), You Owe Me at Least the Peace of a New York. Grave, includes rotating speakers that Developed with Nokia Bell Labs create an environment where visitors Experiments in Art and Technology can interact with visual and audible (E.A.T.), which pioneered some of the manifestations of often invisible sys- technologies used in the exhibition, tems, and in Rosenfeld’s Music Stands, Seeing Sound features interactive in- the viewer is immersed among three stallations by eight artists based in New sculptures that resemble music stands York, London, Bogotá, Tokyo, Singapore, emitting unpredictable tones that and Hong Kong. echo and amplify through the space. The artists in the exhibition create immersive experiences, using sound as a sensorial and pliant material that enchants as an intangible, but integral CURATOR component of art and daily life. They Barbara London is a New York-based incorporate this fluid medium into their curator and writer, who founded the distinctive practices, and work across Video-media