Chus Martínez is dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department and Member of Core Agent Group, as well as associate curator at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, where she was Chief Curator from 2008 to 2010. Previously she was director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein and artistic director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. For the 50th Biennale di Venezia, Martínez curated the National Pavilion of Cyprus, and in 2010 served as a curatorial advisor for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo.
Thinking Contemporary Curating developed out of the conference “The Now Museum,” produced in March 2011 by the New Museum in collaboration with the PhD program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center and Independent Curators International.
About Independent Curators International
Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. In thirty-five years, ICI has organized 118 traveling exhibitions, profiling the work of more than 3,700 artists. The resulting networks include 621 museums, university art galleries, and art centers in forty-eight states and twenty-nine countries. A catalyst for independent thinking, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration. Working across disciplines and historical precedents, the organization is a hub that provides access to the people, ideas, and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
Terry Smith
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7pm, with Cristen
Oct 17, 2012, 7:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre, with Ian G.
Curator’s Perspective
Chus Martínez
Join us for the next in the series of Curator’s Perspective talks with Chus Martínez, dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department and Member of Core Agent Group, as well as associate curator at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Martínez has been continually interested in the connections between philosophy and contemporary art. Her practice has investigated what constitutes artistic research, and in turn, what impact this practice has on other modes of producing knowledge.
Oct. 14th New Museum 3pm with Shelby:
ICI presents Terry Smith and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Thinking Contemporary Curating
Cover Image:
Terry Smith, Thinking Contemporary Curating, 2012
Part of Special Engagement, in Discussions
Author and art historian Terry Smith will be in conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of Documenta 13, about his latest publication, Thinking Contemporary Curating. Published by Independent Curators International (ICI) this fall, it is the first book-length text to comprehensively explore what is distinctive about contemporary curatorial thought, probing what is urgent and challenging in the rapidly evolving international field. Moderated by Renaud Proch, Deputy Director, ICI.Thinking Contemporary Curating developed out of the conference “The Now Museum,” produced in March 2011 by the New Museum in collaboration with the PhD program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center and Independent Curators International.
About Independent Curators International
Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. In thirty-five years, ICI has organized 118 traveling exhibitions, profiling the work of more than 3,700 artists. The resulting networks include 621 museums, university art galleries, and art centers in forty-eight states and twenty-nine countries. A catalyst for independent thinking, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration. Working across disciplines and historical precedents, the organization is a hub that provides access to the people, ideas, and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
Terry Smith
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Elaine Scarry: Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness
Overview
Elaine Scarry argues that beauty is a call to social justice, drawing on artists and philosophers from Plato to the present to show three different ways in which beauty presses us to repair the injuries of the world. Scarry is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics at Harvard University and is the author of The Body in Pain (Oxford University Press, 1987), On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton University Press, 2001) and Dreaming by the Book (Princeton University Press, 2001), and recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7pm, with Cristen
Translit, or The Historical Novel Now
OCT 10, 2012 | 6:30 PM, with Joel and Jack
Hari Kunzru
Peter Mendelsund
Book Cover Designs by Peter Mendelsund
http://vimeo.com/51235214
Ashley Dawson
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