INdepeNdeNT CuRaToRS INTeRNaTIoNal SpRING/SuMMeR 2013 pRoGRaM GEN ERA TIVE CURA TING TaBle oF CoNTeNTS 1 Welcome 2 Spring/Summer 2013 Calendar eXHIBITIoNS 4 do it 6 Free play 8 State of Mind: New California art Circa 1970 10 performance Now 12 Martha Wilson 14 living as Form (The Nomadic Version) 16 Create 18 project 35: Volume 2 20 With Hidden Noise 21 Raymond pettibon: The punk Years, 1978–86 22 Harald Szeemann: documenta 5 , Wednesday, 23 Image Transfer: pictures in a Remix Culture 24 The Curatorial Hub at TeMp puBlIC pRoGRaMS & ReSeaRCH 26 The Curatorial Intensive 28 International programs 30 alumni updates and Space Audience, Time, Yildiz: Adnan 32 Research Fellowships dnan: a January 16, 2013 36 Thinking Contemporary Curating 38 publications 40 The Curator’s perspective 42 The Curatorial Hub NeTWoRKS & aCCeSS editor: Mandy Sa 45 The Curator’s Network designer: Scott ponik Copyeditor: audrey Walen 46 ICI limited editions printing: linco printing, Queens, NY 48 ICI Conversations Big thanks to: Carolyn Christov- 50 International Forum Bakargiev, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Muriel enjalran, Koyo Kuouh, pablo 51 león de la Barra, and Cuauhtemoc Medina 52 Thank You 55 access ICI © 2013 Independent Curators International (ICI), and the authors 56 Booking Information Reproduction rights: You are free to copy, display, and distribute the contents of this publication under the following aBouT ICI conditions: You must attribute the work or any portion of the work reproduced to the author and ICI, giving the article and publication title and date. 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Another aspect of Generative Curating is the opportunity to bring practitioners together to build upon shared experiences and create new networks for collaboration. Since the Curatorial Intensive began in 2010, ICI’s professional development program has involved over 130 curators from all over the world. And after international pilot programs with partner institutions in India, Brazil, and China, the Curatorial Intensive will expand in 2013 to Photo: Lee O’Connor will take place in partnership with the Bag Factory Artists’ It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the Spring/ Studios in Johannesburg, bringing together curators from Summer 2013 semi-annual brochure, and to do so as Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. In ICI’s new Executive Director. After more than three years May we are partnering with the Centre for Contemporary as Deputy Director, I look forward to this next chapter, Art (CCA), Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, to and to continuing to work with Kate Fowle, who will we’re heading to Argentina, as we’re developing the the development of the Curatorial Intensive and other research projects at ICI, working between New York programs in Colombia and Japan later in the year, as well and Moscow, as she assumes her new position of Chief Curator of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. Curatorial Seminar, realized in partnership with SAHA. Since 2009 ICI has grown by leaps and bounds: new None of these developments would have been possible public events, talks and conferences, and training without a broad network of support and a host of amazing opportunities like the Curatorial Intensive have expanded funders which we detail on page 52 of this brochure. the ways in which curators share knowledge and work together to build stronger support structures for artists And last but not least, we would like to thank Ellen Liman around the world. Over the same time, new programming for her continuous support of producing this brochure, has introduced smaller, modular exhibitions that have allowing us to bring you the latest news about ICI’s been presented in over 72 venues worldwide in the last exhibitions, events, research and training opportunities, three years alone, sparking collaborations and generating online programs, and publications. new content wherever they’ve traveled. This is what we’ve called Generative Curating. This year ICI has teamed up with Hans Ulrich Obrist to conceive the twentieth anniversary version of do it, the longest-running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever take place. Based on artists’ instructions that are Renaud Proch interpreted and realized anew every time, this “Exhibition Executive Director in Progress” has grown and adapted over the years. Independent Curators International With each new version new artists are invited; do it has now involved over 400 artists. And with each iteration, works are realized in dialogue with local communities that respond to the selected instructions. In the spring, there will be an outdoors do it at the Socrates Sculpture Park, in New York; iterations in places from Ohio to Hungary to the Netherlands; a traveling do it (Archive) and a do it (Homage Room) at the Manchester International Festival 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2013 CALENDAR MARCH EVENTS CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS Project 35 INTENSIVE August 19, 2012–June 2, 2013 HUB EVENT Living as Form (The Nomadic North Carolina Museum of Art Dana Levy: belonging/s Curatorial Intensive in Version) (Raleigh, North Carolina) Thursday, March 14, 6:30–8pm Johannesburg January 26–March 16 The Curatorial Hub (New York) Thursday, March 7–Tuesday, Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore FAX March 12 College of Art and Design March 1–April 30 1993 The Bag Factory Artists’ (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Simons Center for Geometry Looking Back: 1993 Studios and Physics Saturday, March 23, 3–4:30pm (Johannesburg, South Africa) State of Mind: New California (Stony Brook, New York) New Museum (New York) Art Circa 1970 February 23–May 20 With Hidden Noise HUB EVENT SITE Santa Fe March 20–April 16 New York Times Feminist (Santa Fe, New Mexico) MADA Gallery Reading Group with Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden Martha Wilson Wednesday, March 20, 6:30–8pm January 26–March 22 The Curatorial Hub (New York) Pitzer Art Galleries (Claremont, California) ICI CONVERSATIONS Curators’ Top Picks Under 35 with Ruba Katrib, Chus Martinez, and Fionn Meade Wednesday, March 27, 6:30–8pm Sotheby’s (New York) APRIL EVENTS ICI CONVERSATIONS EXHIBITIONS The Artist’s Voice HUB EVENT Daniel Joseph Martinez State of Mind: New California MAD-LIB[rary] in conversation with Art Circa 1970 with Limited Time Only Renaud Proch February 23–May 20 Thursday, April 4, 7–9pm Monday, April 15, 6:30–8pm SITE Santa Fe The Curatorial Hub (New York) Simon Preston Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico) (New York) ICI CONVERSATIONS Project 35 Critical Outlook – ICI CONVERSATIONS August 19, 2012–June 2, 2013 Developing the Art Fair The Artist’s Voice North Carolina Museum of Art Experience with Cecilia Studio and Gallery Visits (Raleigh, North Carolina) Alemani, Jing Lu, and Saturday, April 27, 10am–4pm Amanda Sharp Bushwick (Brooklyn) FAX Thursday, April 4, 6:30–8pm March 1–April 30 Sotheby’s (New York) THE CURATOR’S Simons Center for Geometry PERSPECTIVE and Physics HUB EVENT Rifky Effendy (Stony Brook, New York) Constance Lewallen and Thursday, April 18, 6:30pm Phong Bui The New School (New York) With Hidden Noise Monday, April 8, 6:30–8pm March 20–April 16 The Curatorial Hub (New York) MADA Gallery ICI CONVERSATIONS Building the Collection Marieluise Hessel in conversation with Tom Eccles Tuesday, April 9, 6:30–8pm Sotheby’s (New York) SPRING/SUMMER 2013 3 MAY–JUNE EVENTS HUB EVENT CURATORIAL Martha Wilson Full Dollar INTENSIVE June 7–August 11 Thursday, June 6, 6:30–8pm Institute of Visual Arts ICI CONVERSATIONS The Curatorial Hub (New York) University of Wisconsin, Cocktail with Sheena Underrepresented Narratives Milwaukee Wagstaff HUB EVENT Sunday, May 19–Saturday, (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Thursday, May 2, 6:30–8:30pm Mnemosyne Atlas Book May 25 Hosted by Thea Westreich and Launch Centre for Contemporary Art Project 35 Ethan Wagner (New York) Wednesday, June 12, 6:30–8pm (CCA), Derry~Londonderry August 19, 2012–June 2, 2013 The Curatorial Hub (New York) (Londonderry, Northern North Carolina Museum of Art HUB EVENT Ireland) (Raleigh, North Carolina) Contemporary Artistic THE CURATOR’S Languages from Central PERSPECTIVE do it America Alexie Glass-Kantor EXHIBITIONS May 12–June 2013 Monday, May 6, 6:30–8pm Monday, June 17, 7–8:30pm Socrates Sculpture Park The Curatorial Hub (New York) Location TBD Living as Form (The Nomadic (Long Island City, New York) Version) May 12–August 25 HUB EVENT HUB EVENT June–August 2013 Gund Gallery Muriel Enjalran Tamar Ettun: a nomadic TheCube Project Space (Gambier, Ohio) Monday, May 13, 6:30–8pm body? (Taipei, Taiwan) May 17–May 19 The Curatorial Hub (New York) Thursday, June 27, 6:30–8pm tranzit The Curatorial Hub (New York) State of Mind: New California (Budapest, Hungary) HUB EVENT Art Circa 1970 May 17–July