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INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL SPRING/SUMMER 2016 PROGRAM I C IC I I C IC I I C I C I I C I C I I C I C I EXHIBITIONS PUBLIC PROGRAMS & RESEARCH NETWORK & ACCESS 4 The Ocean After Nature 18 Curatorial Intensive 30 Publications 6 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 22 Alumni Updates 32 Limited Editions 8 Salon de Fleurus 24 Research Fellowships 34 Annual Beneft 10 EN MAS’ 26 Curator’s Perspective 36 Support ICI 12 Free Play 28 Curatorial Hub 13 Harald Szeemann 39 Thank You 14 do it 40 Access ICI 16 Performance Now 17 Project 35: Volume 2 Yonatan Cohen & Raf Segal, detail of Territorial Map of the World, 2013. Courtesy of the artists. INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL 1 WELCOME Today more than ever—with a region. In addition, ICI will provide a three-part Curatorial growing network of collaborators Mentorship program in collaboration with ArtPrize to take spanning 64 countries—Independent place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to enhance the learning Curators International (ICI) opens experience of curators and institutions participating in up a multiplicity of perspectives that the ArtPrize Fellowship for Emerging Curators program. are fundamental in understanding And lastly, ICI has teamed up with the Liverpool Biennial contemporary art, through exhibitions, and Cactus Gallery on a major new initiative to provide publications, events, curatorial curatorial guidance and support to artists based in the training and research initiatives. North of England to develop their careers internationally over a three-year period. Like the tens of thousands who visit an ICI exhibition each year, you may know ICI as an access point to Each of these collaborations uniquely refects how ICI’s international developments in contemporary art through network impacts local and regional art scenes within an your local museum. Our exhibitions connect curators, international framework. None of this would be possible artists, art spaces and their audiences, increasing without the tireless dedication of ICI’s staff; and of course access and generating new discourse and exchange the commitment of ICI’s Board of Trustees. This year internationally. In the coming months, we are thrilled to the Board is proud to have elected Belinda Kielland as launch two new exhibitions: The Ocean After Nature, its new president, a dynamic new leader who will take curated by our own Alaina Claire Feldman and opening ICI to new heights in its ffth decade. It is also our great in June at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San honor to welcome Yulia Dulstina to the Board of Trustees, Francisco (see page 4); and Apichatpong Weerasethakul: who will provide her own international perspective in The Serenity of Madness, curated by Gridthiya advancing our mission. Gaweewong, and opening in July at the new Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum in Chaing Mai, Thailand Finally, on behalf of the entire staff and Board of ICI, (see page 6). I want to thank everyone who makes ICI what it is today: the curators, the artists, our audience and our Perhaps, like the several hundreds of New Yorkers who collaborators around the world–online, in person, and attend an ICI talk each year, you know ICI as a platform in print; the trusts and foundations that support us, and for learning from curators and artists about ideas that the many visionary individuals who carry ICI’s mission drive art forward. Behind every public event in New York, (please see page 39 for a complete list). there are dozens more held at the Curatorial Hub in lower Manhattan, and across town or around the world hosted by partner institutions that include this year for the frst time the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; the National Council for Culture and the Arts, Manila, Philippines. Renaud Proch However you connect with our programs, each encounter Executive Director with ICI is a window onto the large international network of partnerships, dialogues, and exchange that we have fostered over the last 40 years by swiftly adapting to the constantly evolving curatorial feld. As we enter our ffth decade, we are developing new exhibitions, new collaborations, and new programs, such as the Curatorial Seminar for mid-career curators, building upon the successes of the Curatorial Intensive (See page 21 for more about the frst Seminar in Morocco). I am also particularly excited to announce three new collaborations that will further foster curatorial practice. The frst is a partnership with the Joyce Foundation that will provide scholarships to the Curatorial Intensive to Africa, Latino/a, Asian, Arab, or Native American curators based in the Great Lakes 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2016 CALENDAR MARCH EVENTS Curatorial Intensive: do it Public Symposium Art Museum of the HUB EVENTS Curator’s Perspective: Saturday, March 26 University of Memphis Joselina Cruz 10am–1:30pm Memphis, TN BE.BOP. Black Europe Tuesday, March 15 CAC New Orleans March 1–May 10 Body Politics 7–8:30pm New Orleans, LA Wednesday, March 2 Hunter College MFA do it & do it (archive) 6:30–8pm Campus EXHIBITIONS Blue Star Contemporary ICI Curatorial Hub New York, NY San Antonio, TX New York, NY Wednesday, March 16 EN MAS’ March 3–May 8 6:30pm National Gallery of the Nuevo Museo De Arte School of the Museum of Cayman Islands Salon de Fleurus Contemporáneo (NuMu) Fine Arts, Boston Grand Cayman, Cayman Museum Sztuki Thursday, March 10 Boston, MA Islansd Łódź, Poland 6:30–8pm January 14–March 15 March 18–May 15 ICI Curatorial Hub CURATORIAL New York, NY INTENSIVE Free Play Museum London Curatorial Intensive: London Ontario New Orleans January 30–May 8 March 20–26 New Orleans, LA APRIL EVENTS do it & do it (archive) Blue Star Contemporary HUB EVENTS Curator’s Perspective: San Antonio, TX Catherine David March 3–May 8 Dead Lands: Aissa Wednesday, April 27 Deebi in Conversation 7–8:30pm Salon de Fleurus with Rotem Rozental New York, NY Museum Sztuki Thursday, April 21 Łódź, Poland 6:30–8pm EXHIBITIONS March 18–May 15 ICI Curatorial Hub New York, NY Free Play EN MAS’ Museum London National Art Gallery of the London Ontario Bahamas Dead Lands: Josh T. January 30–May 8 Nassau, The Bahamas Franco in Conversation April 28–July 10 with Rotem Rozental do it Thursday, April 28 Art Museum of the 6:30–8pm University of Memphis ICI Curatorial Hub Memphis, TN New York, NY March 1–May 10 Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University Wichita, KS April 23–26 SPRING/SUMMER 2016 3 MAY/JUNE EXHIBITIONS do it & do it (archive) The Ocean After Nature Blue Star Contemporary Yerba Buena Center for EVENTS Free Play San Antonio, TX the Arts Museum London March 3–May 8 San Francisco, CA Curator’s Perspective: London Ontario June 17–August 25 Jochen Volz January 30–May 8 Salon de Fleurus Tuesday, May 10 Museum Sztuki 7–8:30pm The Rooms Łódź, Poland Americas Society St. John’s, NL, Canada March 18–May 15 New York, NY May 27–August 28 Stacion Center for Contemporary Art CURATORIAL do it Prishtina, Kosovo INTENSIVE Art Museum of the June 10–August 14 University of Memphis Curatorial Intensive: Memphis, TN EN MAS’ Dakar March 1–May 10 National Art Gallery of the June 2–8 Ulrich Museum of Art, Bahamas Raw Material Company Wichita State University Nassau, The Bahamas Dakar, Senegal Wichita, KS April 28–July 10 April 23–26 Washington Project for the Arts Washington, DC May 1–May 31 JULY/AUGUST do it The Ocean After Nature Ulrich Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for CURATORIAL Wichita State University the Arts INTENSIVE Wichita, KS San Francisco, CA April 23–August 26 June 17–August 25 Curatorial Intensive: Indianapolis Museum Manila of Art & Big Car Apichatpong August 28–September 3 Collaborative Weerasethakul The Metropolitan Museum Indianapolis, IN Mai Iam Contemporary Art of Manila July 11–October 30 Museum Manila, The Philippines Chiang Mai, Thailand EN MAS’ July 3–September 30 EXHIBITIONS National Art Gallery of the Bahamas Apichatpong Nassau, The Bahamas Weerasethakul April 28–July 10 Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum Free Play Chiang Mai, Thailand The Rooms July 3–September 30 St. John’s, NL, Canada May 27–August 28 Salon de Fleurus Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo June 10–August 14 4 EXHIBITIONS THE OCEAN AFTER NATURE Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman In their symbolism and narratives, seascapes have traditionally been an expression of power, defining history and forming identities. THE OCEAN AFTER NATURE explores a more recent understanding of the ocean as a massive planetary network reflecting the contemporary ecological, cultural, political, and economic significance of a globalized world. Throughout history, the ocean was the unknown that ARTISTS inspired awe in sovereigns, explorers and artists alike. In the vastness of the seas, they saw otherness, and Ursula Biemann, CAMP (Shaina Anand & Ashok projected onto it narratives, subjects, and expressions of Sukumaran), Yonatan Cohen & Raf Segal, Mati Diop, power with little critical awareness. Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, Drexciya, Peter Fend, Manuel Gnam, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, Hyung In recent years, technological, scientifc, and economic S. Kim, An-My Lê, Manny Montelibano, Deimantas shifts advanced through globalization have prompted Narkevičius, The Otolith Group, Ulrike Ottinger, Carissa new considerations of the ocean. The Ocean After Nature Rodriguez, Allan Sekula and Nöel Burch, Supersudaca presents artists who in the last 15 years have come to depict a space not of otherness but of self-refection. CURATOR Through the work of 20 established and emerging artists from around the world, the exhibition opens up new ways Alaina Claire Feldman is a curator and the Director of of addressing the complicated planetary effects that Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI).