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IMAGE: Clockwise from top left: participants in the Curatorial Intensive; Kalia Brooks, director of exhibitions, MoCADA, and independent curator Michal Novotny; partial view of the Curatorial Hub; gallerist Janice Guy, artist Valerie Tevere, and independent curator Regine Basha.
The Curatorial Hub, Independent Curators International, 401 Broadway, Suite 1620 New York, NY 10013
About Independent Curators International (ICI): Independent Curators International produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, the organization is a hub that provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the curatorial field.
This November, ICI inaugurates the Curatorial Hub, a flexible project space for curators to use as a meeting point and platform for public debate.
Over the last two decades curating in the visual arts has transformed from a little-known profession to a global industry. As the number of people entering the field has increased internationally, the role of the curator has also expanded to contextualize art practices within broadening social, political, and cultural frameworks.
Responding to these transformations, ICI has established the first permanent space in the United States dedicated to making public the fast-growing developments in curatorial thinking. Housed in a new 2,500 square-foot facility in the heart of Tribeca, the Curatorial Hub is an event forum and temporary operational base for curators from across the U.S. and the world to use when they are in New York.
Intended as a place for public discussion, including roundtables, symposia, screenings, and lectures, as well as hosting ICI's reference library and Curatorial Intensive training programs, the Curatorial Hub builds on ICI's long history of working with curators to investigate and present the latest developments in international art practice.
In the last 36-years, over 1,000 curators and 3,700 artists from 47 countries have worked with the organization to produce traveling exhibitions, publications, and events. In the last two years ICI has also developed an online platform that includes a new quarterly journal, DISPATCH, authored by curators on issues affecting contemporary art where they live and work, and The Curator's Network, a membership program that offers up-to-date information on jobs and other opportunities, as well as access to information on emerging curatorial ideas and projects.
While these portals provide much-needed connection between dispersed communities of curators, ICI's Curatorial Hub is a physical complement to these virtual spaces, bringing people together for international curatorial exchange and research in New York.
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A PROPOSAL
For Curating in the Public Realm
4 x 4
A proposal by Katy Reis
Curators seemingly want to be artists. Architects want to be artists. I don’t know if this is an unhealthy trend or not. What disturbs me is a growing tendency for artists to be used as art materials, like paint, canvas, etc. I am uneasy about being used as an ingredient for an exhibition recipe, i.e., to illustrate a curator’s thesis. A logical extreme of this point of view would be for me to be included in an exhibition entitled “Artists Over 6 Feet 6 Inches,” since I am 6’7”. Does this have anything to do with the work I do? It’s sandpapering the edges off of art to make it fit a recipe.
So I suppose quid pro quo—yes! Let’s do a Documenta led by a team of artists. Here’s an idea—let Documenta be an exhibition using curators as raw materials.
—John Baldessari in The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist, ed. Jens Hoffmann
ANOTHER BLOW FOR CITIZENcuratorship
With Hidden Noise: http://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/with_hidden_noise
With Hidden Noise is an exploration of sound art that seeks gallery and museum visitors to spend time listening with ears they may not know they had… Titled after Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a ball of string containing a mysterious sound-making object hidden in its folds, this Exhibition in a Box brings together evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes.
Sound art has a long lineage that can be traced back to the Futurist manifesto and through to subsequent movements and genres, such as Fluxus conceptual art, performance art, up to the most recent artistic uses of the latest developments in new technologies. Over the last 15 years, a number of larger survey shows have tracked this history, but With Hidden Noise makes an understanding and experiencing of sound art accessible to a wider range of venues.
This self-contained sound art exhibition pairs down the installation scale to a single set of surround sound speakers (5 speakers plus a subwoofer) adaptable to a broad range of spaces, allowing for many presentation possibilities. Also included, are a number of books and catalogs on contemporary sound art that may be distributed around the gallery for those who would like to read more as they listen. A further reading list, videography, and programming suggestions are also provided by the curator, making this exhibition as adaptable and expandable as desired.
Curated by Stephen Vitiello: http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/stephen_vitiello
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