INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL SPRING/SUMMER 2011 PROGRAM INTER NA TIONAL NET WORKS Welcome 1 Spring/Summer Calendar 2 EXHIBITIONS Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century 4 The California Experiment: New Art Circa 1970 6 Create 8 Martha Wilson 10 Exhibitions in a Box 13 With Hidden Noise 14 Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5 15 Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978–86 16 Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture 18 Project 35 20 FAX 22 Experimental Geography 24 Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports 26 People’s Biennial 28 TRAINING AND RESEARCH Independent Vision Award 30 Training Programs 31 Curatorial Intensive 32 DISPATCH 34 EVENTS The Now Museum 36 Curator’s Perspective 38 The Curator’s Lounge 40 ACCESS Contact 41 Thank you 42 Support 44 Booking Info 48 Editor: Kate Fowle and in what way. For any reuse or dis- Designer: Scott Ponik tribution you must make clear to others Copy Editor: Alaina Claire Feldman the license terms of this work. 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If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one, and only if it is stated that the work has been altered INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL WELCOME Welcome to the second edition of of the famous 1972 Documenta) traveled to India in Independent Curators International December for ICI’s course on curating. Co-organized (ICI)’s new semi-annual brochure, in Mumbai with the Mohile Parikh Centre, the program giving you up-to-date information on brought together 20 participants from Mumbai, Pune, our exhibitions, events, publications, and Bangalore to develop their practices. At the be- training programs, studio visits, and ginning of 2011, Documenta 5 was in Eastern Europe other projects in development at ICI at CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania, and then KIM? in Riga, this season. Lativa, where talks and workshops generated out of the material were programmed in conjunction with the This issue begins with two words—International exhibition. These presentations are the result of ICI’s first Networks—that build on our last headline—Independent curatorial residency, wherein Lithuanian curator Virginija Thinking—to explore further what the very name of the Januskeviciute spent six weeks researching and working organization implies today. We’ve been thinking a lot in our New York office, demonstrating how concurrent about these words in relation to the potential for sus- ICI programs are enabling ongoing and varied dialogues tained exchange between artists and curators around with professionals. the world, and in light of new media platforms that are increasingly enabling the movement of ideas across na- So, what’s new at ICI this Spring? tional and geographic borders. But, the question of how to really, meaningfully, engage with colleagues around This March we will be presenting ‘The Now Museum: the world still remains. Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models’, co-organized with the PhD Program in Art While the 1990s saw a boom in the creation of biennials History at CUNY Graduate Center and the New Museum. that opened up dialogues between diverse practitioners, This 3-day conference aims to bring historians of con- the last decade has seen the evolution of new models temporary art, curators, and artists into dialogue inspired for institutions that have enabled sustained networks by questions around the museum and contemporary art and collaboration between artists, curators, and organi- history, as well as the extension of exhibition models and zations, generating new projects and research through the involvement of artists in the creation of institutional shared concerns based on practice and experience. For structures globally. ICI, this has led to expanded ways of thinking about how curating mediates and produces discourse as well as We are launching a new ‘Exhibition in a Box’, With generates exhibitions, pushing the parameters of what Hidden Noise, curated by sound artist Stephen Vitiello we consider the role of the curator to be today. as well as finalizing the production of three new exhibi- tions; Performance Now, curated by RoseLee Goldberg; Making international connections has been at the core of Create, co-curated by Matthew Higgs and Lawrence ICI’s mission since its inception in 1975, when the very Rinder; and The California Experiment, co-curated by first exhibition, Video Art USA introduced developments Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss. in the (then) new medium in five Latin American coun- tries. Now, in a different cultural context 36 years later, all We’re also publishing a new issue of our online journal of ICI’s new programs and exhibitions have, in their own DISPATCH and two new printed exhibition publications; way, expanded the possibilities not only of seeing work and, as ever, programming talks and studio visits with from artists around the world, but also of sharing curato- curators and artists who can give us a behind-the-scenes rial ideas: In 2010, 10 exhibitions were presented at 44 glimpse into what is important to practitioners today. venues in 14 countries; 34 talks and events with interna- tional professionals were programmed in collaboration On behalf of all the staff at ICI, we hope you will read on with venues in the U.S. and abroad; and 4 curatorial to find out more about ICI’s Spring/Summer initiatives, training programs were developed for 54 curators from and invite you to be a part of ICI’s International Network 16 countries. Furthermore, with our new, modular and in 2011. evolving exhibitions such as FAX, and Project 35, ICI has engaged with its network of curators world-wide to work with an increasingly broad range of artists and to share their works around the globe. Understanding the importance of context, we are also generating programs highlighting historical precedents in the field. For example, the ‘Exhibition in a Box’ Harald Executive Director Szeemann: Documenta 5 (ICI’s archival exhibition Independent Curators International INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR EXHIBITIONS PROJECT 35 The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Developed by enquiring curators and artists from Philadelphia; Press to Exit Project Space, Skopje, around the world, ICI’s exhibitions address key issues in Macedonia; Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, contemporary culture and present diverse art practices South Dakota; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; William in a variety of formats. Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Al Hoash Gallery, East Jerusalem; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; CREATE Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; The Rebecca UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Berkeley, California Conway, South Carolina; TheCube Project Space, May 11–September 25, 2011 Taipei, Taiwan; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Ongoing through 2011 FAX Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and IMAGE TRANSFER: PICTURES IN A Technology REMIX CULTURE Rapid City, South Dakota Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University February 15–April 3, 2011 Greencastle, Indiana February 22–May 6, 2011 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Cambridge, Massachusetts March 7–April 3, 2011 HARALD SZEEMANN: Saint Paul Street Gallery DOCUMENTA 5 Auckland, New Zealand Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) April 8–30, 2011 Vilnius, Lithuania January 6–February 11, 2011 EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY KIM? Contemporary Art Centre The Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University Riga, Latvia Sherbrooke, Canada February 18–March 27, 2011 January 21–March 21, 2011 MIXED SIGNALS: ARTISTS CONSIDER PEOPLE’S BIENNIAL Dahl Arts Center MASCULINITY IN SPORTS Middlebury College Museum of Art Rapid City, South Dakota Middlebury, Vermont January 14–March 27, 2011 February 3–April 17, 2011 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art The Andy Warhol Museum Winston-Salem, North Carolina Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 8–September 18, 2011 May 28–August 7, 2011 For more information on ICI’s exhibitions, contact Fran Wu Giarratano at 212 254 8200 x29 or [email protected] 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2011 CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE NEW YORK STUDIO EVENTS Thursday, January 20, 7–8:30pm Wednesday, February 16, 6:30–8pm Curator’s Perspective with Katharine Stout (London) Jonas Wood Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NYC Anton Kern Gallery, NYC Monday, March 14, 7–8:30pm Monday, February 28, 6:30–8pm Curator’s Perspective with Zdenka Badovinac (Ljubljana) Brendan Fowler CUNY Graduate Center, NYC Untitled Gallery, NYC Tuesday, May 24, 7–8:30pm Wednesday, March 30, 6:30–8pm Curator’s Perspective with Lamia Joreige (Beirut) Martha Wilson e-flux, NYC The artist’s Brooklyn studio Wednesday, April 27, 6:30–8pm OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS Matt Keegan D’Amelio Terras, NYC Thursday, January 27, 12–4pm Curatorial Intensive Symposium: Philadelphia Monday, May 2, 6:30–8pm The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA Janine Antoni The artist’s Brooklyn studio Thursday–Sunday, March 3–6 ICI at INDEPENDENT Wednesday, May 25, 6:30–8pm 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY Lisa Oppenheim The artist’s Manhattan studio Thursday–Sunday, March 10–13 The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Wednesday, September 14, 7:00–9:30pm Histories, Alternative Models NYSE Dinner with Adam D.