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ARC Magazine features Marlon Griffith

Posted on March 8, 2014

ARC Magazine features one of the first performances for En Mas’: Marlon Griffith.

“Positions + Power is an intervention in the space of carnival that uses the body as a primary medium, stripping mas’ of its decorative elements while maintaining a balance between the material and the immaterial. Through the positions of and interactions between the masqueraders and an ominous mobile surveillance tower, reminiscent of police booths omnipresent at carnival time, Positions + Power points to power relations in public space between the state and civil society. Positions + Power also makes visible processes of negotiation of class and ethnicity through body make-up inspired by the local fashion of chest powdering.” – ARC Magazine

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Recipient of The 2012 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean

Posted on March 14, 2014

TEOR/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and ICI collaborate on a new opportunity for curators: The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. The Award supports a contemporary art curator based anywhere in the world who wishes to travel to conduct research about art and cultural activities in Central America and the Caribbean. This initiative welcomes applications annually from independent curators and those with institutional affiliations, as well as both established and emerging curators (3+ years professional experience). Intending to generate new collaborations with artists, curators, museums, cultural centers, and/or collections in the region, the Travel Award supports curatorial residencies, studio visits and archival research. The Award is constituted by generous funding and institutional support to travel to either one or multiple locations in Central America and the Caribbean, including the following countries: Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama The Caribbean: The Greater Antillles (Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Cayman Islands); The Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, French Antilles—Guadeloupe, Martinique, France La Désirade, France Marie-Galante, France Les Saintes, Saint Barthélemy—, Saba, Sin Eustatius, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuelan Islands); The Bahamas, Colombia (Caribbean region), and Turks and Caicos Islands. The first edition of this award, in 2012, was given in honor of curator Virginia Pérez-Ratton (1950-2010) who was internationally renowned for her work with contemporary artists in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as her dedication to ensuring their practices be recognized beyond the region. Author of many influential publications and essays, and curator of numerous exhibitions and projects around the world, Pérez-Ratton was the founder of the art space, library, and foundation TEOR/éTica, and the director of the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica. We want to expand visibility and awareness of the existing artistic practices of Central America and the Caribbean, while introducing international curators to the region to allow them to experience for themselves the strength and vitality of our modern and contemporary art. Doing so in collaboration with ICI and in honor of Virginia Pérez Ratton’s tireless work in this regard, could not make us prouder. —Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and ICI award curator Pablo León de la Barra the 2012 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean and María del Carmen Carrión the Curatorial Residency at TEOR/éTica. The 2012 CPPC Travel Award for Central America

Pablo Leon de la Barra Pablo León de la Barra is the inaugural recipient of the CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. Read about Pablo León de la Barra’s Travel Award research here. Curatorial Residency at
Maria del Carmen Carrion Compartida/Migrante, 2010. Courtesy of David Flores-Hora and ceroinspiración. María del Carmen Carrión was selected for the Curatorial Residency at TEOR/éTica. Read about María del Carmen Carrión’s curatorial residency here. Juried Selection Process Pablo León de la Barra and María del Carmen Carrión were selected among over 60 applicants from over 20 countries. The selection was made by a jury of professionals which included Rosina Cazali, an independent curator based in Guatemala; Inti Guerrero, Associate Artistic Director, TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica; and Kate Fowle, Director, ICI. In their selection, the jury considered the need to balance new readings and narratives for Central American and the Caribbean art histories, as well as identify projects responding with innovative and useful approaches to the area’s most urgent needs. Travel logs, details on related events, and further information on Pablo León de la Barra’s and María del Carmen Carrión’s research and travels will be available on ICI’s website this Fall 2012.

Recipient of the 2012 ICI/French Institute Fellowship

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From left to right: Rubens Mano, Casa Verde, 1997, C-print, 51 x 51 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Intervention at Casa Verde Avenue, São Paulo (Brazil); Hamish Fulton, Point Zéro Paris, 2010, Biennale de Belleville production, Courtesy of Torri Gallery.

In 2012, Independent Curators International (ICI), l’insitut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, are collaborating on a Fellowship program offering a French curator a new opportunity for international research and the development of professional networks. Launching in July 2012 with a research trip to New York which coincides with the Summer Curatorial Intensive, the program spans over a period of six months and includes a second visit to the U.S., where the Fellow will use ICI as a base.

We are pleased to announce the selection of Muriel Enjalran as the first Fellow in this program. Enjalran is an independent curator and writer who is currently working on a monographic project with Hamish Fulton, which will open in 2013 at the CRAC Languedoc Roussillon in Sète, France, and is planned to travel internationally. In addition, Enjalran is developing a collaborative network that brings together artists from Portugal, Brazil and Morocco, where she also regularly curates projects for L’appartement 22, an independent art space in Rabat.

Since 2006, Enjalran has worked at the D.C.A – the French association for the development of art centers – where as Project Manager she has helped to coordinate a structure of 50 art spaces across France, and enable connections between them and other European institutions. She was an Associate Curator for the first edition of the Biennale de Belleville, Paris, in 2011; and for the 3rd Arts in Marrakech International Biennale, in 2009. She regularly contributes essays and reviews to publications such as Particules, Mag’Art, and Paris Art.

The progress of Enjalran’s research will be available on this page from September 2012, with updates through to the end of 2012. Please check our website regularly.

Credits
This Fellowship program is supported by the Ministère de la culture et de la communication (DGCA), with further assistance from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. Additional support is provided by THE OUT NYC.

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Pablo León de la Barra: Novo Museo Tropical

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Installation image of a mural by Minerva Cuevas.

TEOR/éTica proudly presents Novo Museo Tropical, a curatorial project by Pablo León de La Barra.
July 21–September 16, 2012

Novo Museo Tropical is a “museum without walls” that centers on a historiographical chart shaped like a bunch of bananas, created by León de La Barra. The bananas bear the names of a range of significant artists, artworks, and avant-garde movements that are part of the artistic and visual field of Latin America.

For TEOR/éTica, the Novo Museo Tropical features a number of artworks, architectural perspectives and archival material that address the economic and political exploitation, fantasy and exoticism associated with banana plantations in different contexts. In addition, a museum-designed micro-climate showcases videos, films, texts and works in various formats by other artists and filmmakers who make up this “banana encyclopedia”.

Novo Museo Tropical is a first approach toward building a new art history. It is an attempt to create an expanded field for tropical manifestations, which de-localizes it from any geography. In other words, as León de la Barra’s Manifesto says, “Being Tropical is not about location, it’s about attitude”.

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Novo Museo Tropical is a curatorial project funded by TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. Pablo León de la Barra’s research fellowship is funded by Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Visit the website here for regular updates on León de la Barra’s research trip or contact Sofía Olascoaga at sofia@curatorsintl.org for more information.

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Curatorial Residency at TEOR/éTica

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Residency Frontera Compartida/Migrante, 2010. Courtesy of David Flores-Hora and ceroinspiración.

The 2012 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean is given in honor of curator Virginia Pérez-Ratton (1950-2010) who was internationally renowned for her work with contemporary artists in Central America and the Caribbean. Pérez-Ratton was the founder of the art space, library, and foundation TEOR/éTica. As part of this edition, the Travel Award has partnered with TEOR/éTica to grant a 4 week curatorial residence to María del Carmen Carrión.

Carrión’s curatorial interests focus on exploring exhibition histories and institutional critique, contemporary practices in the public realm, and the connection between territory, communities, and politics. During her residency she will explore geography as a social category by considering the complexity of practices that determine conditions of acceptability within systems of exploitation of nature. Carrión will also research artistic projects and scholarly research that examine the relation between social space and the space of nature, and look at artistic practices in Costa Rica that consider the connection between space and movement, multiplicity and forms of appropriation and uses of territory that generate specific ideas and approaches toward power.

Carrión arrive at TEOR/éTica on August 15th. She will be giving a presentation on her curatorial practice on August 23rd, and present two video screenings on August 29th and 30th.

Visit the website for regular updates on María del Carmen Carrión’s residency or contact info@curatorsintl.org for more information.

Recipient of the 2012 ICI Curatorial Fellowship

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Collective Reading of Illich’s Tools for Conviviality at Escambron, San Juan, PR May 3rd 2012.
Image courtesy of BetaLocal.

The first ICI Curatorial Fellow, Sofía Olascoaga, proposed to interrogate the critical and practical intersections between public programming, educational models, and the experience of utopian communities. Over the last 9 months Olascoaga has produced a number of forums through which to test her ideas and practices.

SITAC X

SITAC X

Panel Discussion: A Brief History of the Future: Experimental and Utopian Communities in Mexico
and their Influence on Cultural Practice. SITAC X, Mexico City. February 9th 2012.
With Gabriel Cámara, Alberto González, Alejandro Chao, Abraham Cruzvillegas. Moderated by Sofía Olascoaga.
Image courtesy of Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo.

In February 2012 Sofía Olascoaga completed one of the first projects related to her Curatorial Fellowship at ICI as Director of The Clinics Workshops and as a coordinator and moderator for the panel discussion on utopian communities in Mexico, at SITAC X.

The Clinics

The Clinics

The Clinics Workshops: Community?, Education? And Working conditions? Director Sofía Olascoaga.
Facilitators Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Ignacio Plá, Mónica Castillo, Iconoclasistas. SITAC X, Mexico City.
January-February 2012. Image courtesy of Sofía Olascoaga

Exploring formats for collective work and discussion, Olascoaga designed the “Clinics” of SITAC X, the International Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory in Mexico City, an annual international conference sponsored by Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo.

In 2012 the tenth edition of SITAC was directed by Shuddhabrata Segupta of New Delhi’s Raqs Media Collective. Under the title The Future: The Long Count Begins Again, this event built on SITAC’s history of visionary discourse, and brought together a group of intellectuals from various countries to discuss the foundations for a new way of looking at the art world’s possible tomorrows.

The Clinics are multidisciplinary working groups of local participants intended to generate critical feedback on the framework of the SITAC program. With Olascoaga as Director of the “Clinics,” SITAC X featured three working groups, led by Monica Castillo, Iconoclasistas collective from Argentina, and Ignacio Plá and Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, focusing on the practical and theoretical interrogations of Community?, Education?, and Working conditions? to address possible futures.

http://www.pac.org.mx/sitac/

Between Utopia and Failure

Reflecting upon the need for utopian models, Olascoaga has been conducting research on a series of intentional community in Morelos, Mexico, as cases studies to explore the tensions between utopian drives and their lived experience. Her particular focus is on the successes and failures of communal living initiatives as well as the organizational models explored through them. Inspiring this project is a desire to learn and critically reassess previous generations’ experiments in communal living that have not been made visible as a tangible referent for the current generation. This project does not seek to create a formal writing of history but a direct recuperation of a community’s lived experience.

The research project titled “Between Utopia and Failure”, assesses the productive tension between utopia and failure of intentional community models developed in Mexico in past decades. The project traces the work and influence of radical thinker Ivan Illich, the intellectual community he started in Cuernavaca, and the role that model has played in the practice of many Mexican and international thinkers and artists (Susan Sontag, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jimmie Durham, among others). Moreover, it approaches the questions and experiences posed by these initiatives as a way to respond to Mexico’s disrupted present.

CIAC for their generous support of this fellowship. MCINY For more information on Sofía Olascoaga’s research, contact info@curatorsintl.org.

Mapping Central America and the Caribbean

Posted on March 15, 2014

(clockwise from top left): NuMu (New Museum of Contemporary Art), Guatemala. Courtesy of NuMu;
Espira/Espora, TACON Contemporary art workshop, 2012, Nicaragua; Diablo Rosso, Installation view,
Postpanamax by Proyectos Ultravioleta, Panama. Courtesy Proyectos Ultravioleta;
Batiscafo, Cuba, work by Marianela Orozco

As part of ICI’s collaboration with the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to create research opportunities in Central America and the Caribbean, ICI is pleased to announce the launch of a resource platform that offers information on institutions, archives, museums, collections, and other relevant activities constituting Central America and the Caribbean’s contemporary art scene, including independent initiatives, biennials, and private foundations. This platform was conceived of and developed by Sofia Olascoaga, ICI’s first Curatorial Research Fellow (2010).

Reflecting the evolving landscape of the art scene, this platform will be updated as new information becomes available.

Thanks to the artists and curators who have helped to shape and enrich the project to date: David Ayala AlfonsoMagali Arriola, Stefan Benchoam, Tamara Díaz Bringas, Rosina CazaliSantiago Olmo, María Inés Rodríguez, and Paola Santoscoy.

The countries and islands constituting the region are: (click on the countries for more information)

 

The Caribbean:

 

 

Cuba 

Haiti 

Dominican Republic
Jamaica

Puerto Rico
Cayman Islands

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba
Barbados

Bonaire

British Virgin Islands

Curaçao

Dominica

Grenada

Guadeloupe
Martinique

Saba

Sin Eustatius

Montserrat

Saint Kitts and Nevis

France La Désirade

France Marie-Galante

Saint Lucia

Saint Martin

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

France Les Saintes

Saint Barthélemy

Trinidad and Tobago
U.S. Virgin Islands

Venezuelan Islands

The Bahamas

Colombia (Caribbean region)
Turks and Caicos Islands

RESOURCE CENTER

 

Further recommendations and additions to this section are welcome!

Please contact info@curatorsintl.org with information.

Recipients of the 2012 Research Awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni

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In 2012, ICI partnered with SAHA and the Dedalus Foundation to offer awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni in order to encourage the development of collaborative projects and a stronger network for exchange among alumni. The awards help facilitate curatorial research projects proposed by 2 alumni working together. The research must have a public component and awardees will post intermittent updates on their project on ICI’s online research platform.

SAHA RESEARCH AWARD
The first award is a collaboration between SAHA and ICI offering $3,000. The requirements to qualify for the SAHA Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni are that the project involves a Turkish curator or artist, or that research will take place in Turkey.

A Hittite relief of two bird headed gods, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara

Övül Durmuşoğlu and Mari Spirito have been awarded the SAHA Research Award with the project Ancient Works / Asar-ı Atika, a one week research project at The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey with artists Akram Zaatari, Nilbar Güres, and Rossella Biscotti. This archeological museum is one of the first institutions founded by the Turkish Republic,1920, as an attempt to historicize this new nation in relationship with its ancestors. Unusually, the area and cultures addressed by The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations reaches wide into the region. The Turkish term “Asar-ı Atika” translates as Ancient Works and refers to the objects as art works and is also the name of a law aimed at protecting museums and ancient sites. This research seeks investigate the origins and resulting effects of these concepts, as well as the mediation of cultural bureaucracy by governing bodies. The artists and curators will work with the archive of texts, images, architecture, display design and objects. Each artist will work towards an individual proposal for a possible intervention of their own work in this or other archeological settings. The work will result in a public discussion about the proposals in Ankara, Istanbul and New York – as well as shared research posted on ICI’s website.

ABOUT THE AWARDEES
Övül Durmusoglu is a curator and writer based in Berlin and Istanbul. As a Goethe Institute Fellow at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA(13), she organized the programs, What is Thinking? Or a Taste That Hates Itself; Readers Circle: 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts; and Paper Mornings: Book Presentations at dOCUMENTA(13). Durmusoglu has contributed to different catalogues, publications, and magazines such as Frieze d/e, Flash Art International, and ment. Durmusoglu currently works as the curator of the festival, Sofia Contemporary 2013.

Mari Spirito is the Founding Director of Protocinema, a transnational experiment making nomadic exhibitions in New York and Istanbul, and a nonprofit with a hands-on Education Program. Protocinema recently presented 121st Night, an event with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera in Istanbul; early work by Gerard Byrne in a former Chinese deli in New York; and new work by Ahmet Ögüt in New York in partnership with Itinerant. Prior to Protocinema, Spirito was Director of 303 Gallery, New York for 12 years, where she worked on large-scale, site-specific works by Mike Nelson and Doug Aitken. Spirito is on the boards of Participant Inc., New York; New Art Dealers Alliance, New York; and Collectorspace, Istanbul.

DEDALUS RESEARCH AWARD
The second award is a collaboration between the Dedalus Foundation and ICI offering $4,000. The requirements to qualify for the Dedalus Foundation Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni are that the project involves a U.S. curator or artist, or that research will take place in the United States.

Bounty, curated by Natilee Harren and Chris Lipomi, Los Angeles 2012

The winners of the 2012 Dedalus Foundation Research Award are Maja Ćirić and David Ayala Alfonso, who both participated in the Curatorial Intensive in New York in Fall 2010. Inspired by Robert Motherwell’s practice that conquered unclaimed territories in the arts, this research proposal aims towards examining post-conceptual exhibition practices in the United States. The research will involve examining key exhibition histories and examples of post-conceptual curating; cross-referencing historical interviews, curatorial statements, and interpretive materials; archiving the findings in a digital database; and producing a scholarly article and curated booklet. We chose this proposal because of its conceptually rich ideas into new territory and because of the unique collaborative relationship between Alfonso and Ćirić. They come from diverse backgrounds, Colombian and Serbian, respectively, and maintain a fruitful and sustained conversation on curatorial practice from across the world.

ABOUT THE AWARDEES
David Ayala Alfonso is a Colombian curator, artist, and researcher. He works as Editor in Chief for em_rgencia, a peer-reviewed journal on contemporary art. His practice is focused on examining social movements, public policies, education, and media consumption through the lens of arts and visual culture. Ayala Alfonso has published writings on Colombian art history, arts education, independent spaces, performance, and artistic interventions in the public realm. He is also an occasional writer and translator for different academic publications. As part of Group 0,29, he has produced various performances and intervention projects in Colombia and Latin America. Recently, he has been awarded the annual Arts Publishing Prize from the cultural office of the City of Bogota and the Fulbright Grant for Colombian Artists to pursue graduate studies in the United States in 2013.

Maja Ćirić is an independent curator and art critic. She is a citizen of both Belgrade, Serbia and transnationalrepublic.org. She has worked in Belgrade, New York, Vienna, San Diego, Dubai, and Shanghai. She says that her logic of practice cannot be defined by the dominant geopolitical structures and their impact on the art world; rather she tries to think about the art world differently, in terms of criticality and post-globalism. She is a recipient of the Lazar Trifunovic Award for Art Criticism (Belgrade), the CEC ArtsLink Independent Projects Award (New York), and the ISCP Curator Award (New York). Her areas of research span from curating as institutional critique through to the research of methodology and epistemology of curating, with special emphasis on the transnational circulation of ideas and curating.

Recipient of the 2013 ICI Curatorial Fellowship

Jorge Días, Coisa, 2012, acrylic on paper mache, 70 x 70 x 70 cm, courtesy of the artist, Maputo

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Kiluanji Kia Henda, Un Recuerdo Para Ti, 2009, Chromogenic prints, each 130 x 86 cm, courtesy of the artist, Luanda

ICI is pleased to announce Miguel Amado as the 2013 Curatorial Fellow
February 1 – December 15, 2013

As ICI’s 2013 Curatorial Research Fellow, curator and critic Miguel Amado will develop and share knowledge about African contemporary art, including both North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora, in order to enhance curatorial expertise about this realm. One of his goals is to increase the awareness of such practices in transnational contemporary art platforms and circuits. His research will examine the effect of post-colonial thought on the reception of the practices of African artists in Western institutions in general and European ones in particular.

The focuses of the research are the main Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, including Angola and Mozambique. These geographical focal points are based on the fact that Portugal was the first and last colonizing European power in Africa, and these countries are currently developing the institutions and markets that constitute an art scene. This research will include trips to African cities such as Luanda (Angola) and Maputo (Mozambique), where Amado will assemble documentation about artists, exhibitions, and histories, with the goal of creating a series of reports to be disseminated through magazines and websites. The Fellow will conduct interviews with key artists and curators; create portfolios of artists; compile images of studios, schools, museums, and non-profit and commercial galleries; and write about crucial institutions and individuals. Amado will present updates on his research on ICI’s website, and will host a public program at ICI’s Curatorial Hub in New York City.

Recipient of the 2013 ICI/French Institute Fellowship

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Independent Curators International (ICI), l’Institut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York announce curator Fanny Gonella as the 2013 ICI/French Institute Fellow.

ICI, l’Institut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York are pleased to announce that Fanny Gonella has been selected as the second ICI/French Institute Fellow. The fellowship program offers a French curator a new opportunity for international research and the development of professional networks. The program spans over a period of six months and includes two visits to the U.S., where the Fellow will use ICI as a base.

Fanny Gonella, a Bonn-based curator, will research the artistic legacy of Robert Morris, focusing on the critical discourse his work generated around 1970s notions of queer identity, social constructs, and stereotypes. Gonella will use Morris’s 1974 self-portrait as a starting point to investigate historical and current gender issues, and plans to conduct a series of interviews with artists who worked directly with Morris, and with contemporary artists whose work continues his legacy. Further information on Gonella’s research and details on related events will be available on ICI’s website this winter 2013.

About the Fellow
Fanny Gonella is curator at the Bonner Kunstverein. After completing her studies at the Ecole du Louvre, she received a degree in art history at the Sorbonne, Paris. While working at neugerriemschneider gallery in Berlin, she founded the independent project space Korridor (2005-06). She then worked as a curator for the artprize Blauorange 2007 and was awarded the curatorial residency program *Kurator 2008/09 in Switzerland. As an independent curator, she has worked on numerous projects and exhibitions in Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, and Berlin. Recently, she co-curated, with Burkhard Meltzer, an online streaming program, Keys to our Heart (2012), and was a selecting curator for the Furla Art Prize 2013. For the Bonner Kunstverein, Gonella has curated solo exhibitions on Luca Frei, Ed Atkins, Anna Virnich, and will open the first institutional exhibition of Timur Si-Qin in fall 2013.

About L’Institut français in Paris
L’Institut français is the governmental agency for the promotion of French culture abroad and the operator of the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs for artistic collaboration in performing arts, visual arts, architecture, as well as for the dissemination of French books, cinéma, language, thinking, and ideas. L’Institut français works in close relationship with the French cultural services abroad, including 150 local French institutes and almost 1,000 French alliances. It also collaborates with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication through a partnership agreement.
www.institutfrancais.com

About The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.
The Cultural Services is a division of the French Embassy in the United States. The Cultural Services was first imagined in the 1930’s by Paul Claudel. In 1945 General de Gaulle appointed Claude Lévi-Strauss as the first Cultural Counselor, with the mission of providing Americans (individuals and organizations) with access and resources to engage with French culture and promote it in their own communities.
www.frenchculture.org

Public Program Organized by the 2012 SAHA Research Fellows

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Hititte Sun Course Nusret Suman 1978, a copy of a Hitit finding in Alacahöyük, that became the symbol of Ankara in 1973, more examples of sun courses may be seen in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

Rossella Biscotti and Akram Zaatari
Roundtable conversation following research at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ancient Works / Asar-ı Atika
Organized by Övül Durmusoğlu and Mari Spirito

Saturday, July 26, 2013
15:00
SALT, Ankara
Atatürk Bulvarı No:12, 06250 Ankara, Turkey
+90 312 324 3024

Ancient Works / Asar-ı Atika is a research project in collaboration with Rossella Biscotti and Akram Zaatari on processing multiple historical narratives.

This project brings together two artists who have, at the base of their practice, extensive research into a wide range of histories as well as narratives that expand possible readings of personal and political events. This project brings Biscotti and Zaatari into the specific context of the Museum of Antonian Civilizations, one of the first cultural institutions established by the Turkish Republic, at the time of the nation’s foundation, 1923.

Rossella Biscotti was born in 1978 in Molfetta, Italy. She has had solo exhibitions at Secession, Wien (2013); e-flux, New York (2013); CAC, Vilnius (2012); Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento (2010); and Nomas Foundation, Rome (2009). Biscotti participated in the Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennial (2013); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); and Manifesta 9, Genk (2012).

Akram Zaatari co-founded the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation in 1997, and he has been working on the extensive archive of Hashem el Madani’s Studio Shehrazade, in the Lebanese port city of Saida, since 1999. His works have been featured in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), the Istanbul Biennial (2011), and the Venice Biennale (2007), among others, and he has shown his films, videos, photographs, and other documents in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Kunstverein and Haus der Kunst in Munich, Le Magasin in Grenoble, MUSAC in Leon, MUAC in Mexico City, and Videobrasil in Sao Paulo. Zaatari represents Lebanon at the 55th International Venice Biennale, and currently has a solo exhibition at Project 100, MoMA, New York.

This program is supported by the 2012 ICI/SAHA Research Award.

Update: 2012 ICI/French Institute Fellow

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Caetano Dias, 1978 Cidade Submersa, 2010, video, courtesy of the artist

Muriel Enjalran was invited to come to New York from Paris as the first ICI/French Institute Fellow. After participating in ICI’s Curatorial Intensive program in the Summer 2012, she conducted research into artists who engage with the public sphere and explore the relationship between art and politics beyond conventional practices. Enjalran takes the works and activities of Justine Triet, Ângela Ferreira, and Caetano Dias (artists residing across various continents) as a departure point for interrogating how their work attempts to redefine aesthetics, therefore redefining art and politics while engaging with the social.

The past two years have shown tremendous international popular uprisings from New York to Cairo to Athens. And as art continues to emerge as a vehicle for expressing political movements, the traditional artwork has been generally augmented by art as a process, increasingly contributing to an aestheticization of politics. New York offers a space to witness theory in action alongside a myriad of contemporary art spaces and cultural institutions. As her research in New York progresses through studio visits, lectures, academic studies and professional networking, Enjalran’s writing will continue to unearth international artists and practices working against the grain of standardizing the relationship between art and politics.

Click here to read Enjalran’s full essay, Between the Politicization of Art and the Aesthetics of the Politics: the Margin of the Artist. The essay results from a research fellowship established for independent curator and writer Muriel Enjalran by Independent Curators International (ICI), l’institut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York.

About Muriel Enjalran
Muriel Enjalran is currently working on a monographic exhibition with Hamish Fulton, which will be presented in October 2013 at the CRAC Languedoc Roussillon in Sète, France. For this particular project, Hamish Fulton has realized a 23 days solitary walk in Pyrenees which joins Llançà on the Spanish Mediterranean coast to Hendaye on the French Atlantic coast. This major exhibition will include new wall paintings and other works that render this particular experience. A catalog will also be published on the occasion. More information can be found at crac.languedocroussillon.fr

Enjalran’s newest project for d.c.a, uncoupdedes.net, is an online magazine and collaborative network (“un coup de dés” literally, a roll of the dice) bringing together 50 contemporary art institutions. Week after week via the website, visitors find diverse reflections on contemporary art. Like rolling the dice, pages on the site appear at random, enabling visitors to experience contributions from different perspectives: figures of the world of art and culture (artists, curators, critics, philosophers, researchers, sociologists…). Every art center will play its own card, in spirit of experimentation and research, the fundamental tasks that arise at every stage of art’s activity, from the production of a work to its reception. Uncoupdedes.net is a project of d.c.a / the French Association for the Development of Art Centers. Please visit the website at www.uncoupdedes.net

Since 2006, Enjalran has worked at the d.c.a as Project Manager. In addition, Enjalran also regularly curates projects for L’appartement 22, an independent art space in Rabat. She was an Associate Curator for the first edition of the Biennale de Belleville, Paris, in 2011; and for the 3rd Arts in Marrakech International Biennale, in 2009. She regularly contributes essays and reviews to publications such as Particules, Mag’Art, and Paris Art.

More about Enjalran’s 2012 Fellowship here.

Recipient of the 2013 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean

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Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) announce curator Remco de Blaaij as the recipient of the 2013 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Independent Curators International are pleased to announce that Remco de Blaaij has been selected as the second recipient of the CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. The award supports a contemporary art curator based anywhere in the world to travel to Central America and the Caribbean to conduct research about art and cultural activities in the region. The process will generate new collaborations with artists, curators, museums, and cultural centers in the area.

Remco de Blaaij (b. 1979, The Netherlands), a Glasgow-based curator, will research women activist practices in the countries of Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Suriname. De Blaaij will visit local artists, art institutions and non-profit organizations, conduct research in the archives of Edna Manley College in Jamaica, interview art historians and curators, and give public lectures throughout the region. Travelogs, details on related events, and further information on de Blaaij’s research will be available on ICI’s website this fall 2013.

Remco de Blaaij has been curator at CCA Glasgow since October 2012. Previously he co-curated Picasso in Palestine whilst working at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2007-12). He worked on the team of Be(com)ing Dutch, a two-year elaborate project in the museum that dealt with residues of globalization, national identity, and immigration. He moved to London in 2011 to conclude his research at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University with the publication too little, too late on border practices of visual culture against the backdrop of Suriname.

Remco de Blaaij was selected from more than 50 applicants from over 20 countries. The selection was made by a jury of professionals, which included María José Chavarría (curator, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica), Adán Vallecillo (artist and curator, Nicaragua), and María del Carmen Carrión (Associate Director of Public Programs & Research, ICI). In their selection, the jury considered the need to balance new readings and narratives for Central American and the Caribbean art histories, as well as identify projects responding with innovative approaches to the area’s most urgent needs.

About the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) works to increase understanding and awareness of Latin America’s contributions to the history of art and ideas, and to support innovation, education, creativity, and research in the field of Latin American art. Through grants and partnerships, the CPPC also supports the professional development of Latin American artists, curators, and scholars. Recent initiatives include, among others, a sponsorship to create a Curatorial Fellowship at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany; a partnership with Hunter College (New York) to create the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Latin American Art; and an alliance with the Bard Graduate Center (New York) to organize the Cisneros Seminar in the Material Cultures of the Ibero-American World.

2013 Research Awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni

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Call for Applications: Research Awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni Deadline: Monday, November 4, 2013 For the second year, ICI together with SAHA and The Dedalus Foundation are offering research awards to encourage productive networks between curators. The awards will support alumni from any of the past Curatorial Intensive programs developing a research project in collaboration with at least one other alumnus. The first award is a collaboration between SAHA and ICI in the amount of $3,000. To qualify for the ICI and SAHA Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni the project must involve a Turkish curator or artist, or research must take place in Turkey. Click here for more information on the SAHA Research Award
The second award is a collaboration between The Dedalus Foundation and ICI in the amount of $4,000. To qualify for the ICI and The Dedalus Foundation Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni, the project must involve a US curator or artist or the research must take place in the United States. Click here for more information on The Dedalus Foundation Research Award

Recipients of the 2013 Research Awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni

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In 2012, ICI partnered with SAHA and The Dedalus Foundation to offer awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni in order to encourage the development of collaborative projects and a stronger network for exchange among alumni. The awards help facilitate curatorial research projects proposed by 2 alumni working together. The research must have a public component and awardees will post intermittent updates on their project on ICI’s online research platform.

ICI/SAHA RESEARCH AWARD

The first award is a collaboration between SAHA and ICI offering $3,000. The requirements to qualify for the ICI and SAHA Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni are that the project involves a curator or artist from Turkey, or that research will take place in Turkey.

that research will take place in Turkey.

The winners of the 2013 ICI/SAHA Research Award are Gürsoy Doğtaş (Turkey) and Alejandra Labastida (Mexico), who participated in the Summer 2013 Curatorial Intensive in New York. Their proposal, Beklenen Şarkı (“The Expected Song”), aims to explore the results of the military regime in 1980s Turkish Republic. Doğtaş and Labastida are focusing on Zeki Müren (1931-1996), a poet, composer, and singer from Turkey, who was banned from performing on stage for several years. They are using his as an example of the unpublicized history of artistic repression during this time. This proposal was selected because of the international scope of the collaboration––the alumni will be working across countries and continents to explore this lesser-known history and the relationships between fine art, language, music, theory, and resistance. They will invite the public to help compile and contribute documents, notes, lyrics, and other archival materials from/about/against Müren. The public aspect of the grant involves a public program with presentations by artists, curators, and the public.

ABOUT THE AWARDEES
Gürsoy Doğtaş is a freelance curator, author, and artist. He is currently a PhD candidate in the transdisciplinary post-graduate program “Assemblies and Participation: Urban Publics and Performance” at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany. In October, Doğtaş curated the exhibition Curated by Vienna. This exhibition series delves into the complex relationship between image, discourse, text, and perception. From 2010-12, he was part of the kunstraum München, an art association focusing on political and conceptual art, where he organized an alternative academy called “Forms of Informal Research” (2011), and curated the first solo exhibition on Palestinian-Jordanian artist Oraib Toukan, entitled Splice (2012). In 2010, Doğtaş served as Roger M. Burgel’s Curatorial Assistant for the Ai Weiwei exhibition Barely Something at DKM in Duisburg, Germany. Doğtaş has been an editor of Matt Magazine since 2006, an artist zine focusing on the tradition of conceptual art engaging with social and political action.

Alejandra Labastida is currently the Associate Curator at MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art) in Mexico City, where she has worked in the Curatorial Department since 2008. In 2012, she was the winner of the Akbank Sanat International Curatorial Competition. Her recent curatorial projects include The Life of Others. Repetition and Survival (Istanbul), You and Whose Army? (Zagreb), For the love of dissent (Mexico City), and A partir de mañana, todo (Mexico City). She was the Assistant Curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and has authored numerous publications on contemporary art. Labastida holds a BA in History from the Universidad Iberoamericana and she is currently a Master’s candidate in Art History with a specialization in curatorial studies at UNAM (Universidad Autónoma de Mexico).

ICI/DEDALUS RESEARCH AWARD

The second award is a collaboration between The Dedalus Foundation and ICI offering $4,000. The requirements to qualify for the ICI and Dedalus Foundation Research Award for Curatorial Intensive Alumni are that the project involves a U.S. curator or artist, or that research will take place in the United States.

The winners of the 2013 ICI and The Dedalus Foundation Research Award are Viviana Checchia (Italy) and Anna Santomauro (Italy). Checchia and Santomauro will conduct research in the United States, with the aim to investigate different curatorial approaches developed from the heritage of the exhibition Culture in Action, and to re-contextualize these curatorial practices within the European and Euro-Mediterranean perspective. Checchia and Santomauro will analyze a range of curatorial methodologies in order to envision new articulations of the notion of participation in contemporary art production. The research will take the written form of a blog as well as a seminar (presentations, talks, and workshops) in Puglia, Italy, with both U.S. and local curators as participants.

ABOUT THE AWARDEES
Viviana Checchia is a curator, critic, and PhD candidate at Loughborough University (UK). She lives in London and is the Co-Founder and Chief Curator of Vessel in Italy, a non-profit arts organization devoted to developing critical discourse around pertinent contemporary social, political, and economic issues. As Assistant Curator at Eastside Projects (UK) she researched and assisted in curating Abstract Cabinet Show (2009) and Liam Gillick Two Short Plays (2009). Her projects as an independent curator include In Dialogue at Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2012); There’s something to this (but I don’t know what it is) at Nitra Gallery, Slovakia (2010); and Giant Step, a collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Mostyn Gallery, and Galeria Labirynt (2012). She participated in the Gwangju Foundation Course for International Curators (2010) and the ICI Curatorial Intensive in Derry~Londonderry (2013). She is currently part of the Agora, 4th Athens Biennale curatorial team.

Anna Santomauro is a curator working between Bari and Bologna, Italy. She has collaborated with neon>campobase, a non-profit organization devoted to contemporary art, where she curated a 3-year video program. In 2009, she started collaborating with Italian curator Viviana Checchia on the projects: 1h art, Festa del Migrante, and Green Days. With Checchia, she co-founded and co-curates Vessel, a non-profit arts organization devoted to developing critical discourse around pertinent contemporary social, political, and economic issues. She is interested in artistic practices that challenge the status quo and in art as a tool to produce alternative geo-socio-political imagination. She recently curated the exhibition For an Ecology of the Museum at Museum of Villa Croce in Genova. She attended the International Curator Course 2012, organized by Gwangju Biennale, and ICA 7th Summer Seminars for Art Curators 2013. Santomauro is a contributor to Arte & Critica magazine.

do it instructions featured on KLAN KOSOVA and Express KTV

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Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina presented do it curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist from November 15 through December 14, 2013 marking the first time that do it has been realized in Kosovo. Completely objectless, this iteration of the project instead focused on the mass dissemination of information and infiltrated the media with artists’ instructions, drawn from do it: the compendium. With the goal of altering the role of the audience, Stacion organized the presentation of a selection of artists’ instructions on unexpected platforms such as newspapers, propaganda posters, and the evening news, making public the process of transmitting unconventional content while not documenting the consequences.  Dozens of artists’ instructions were featured as part of the project, and ICI has linked just a few highlights 

Pawel Althamer – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Stephen J Kaltenbach – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Josef Grigely – KLAN KOSOVA.tv from ICI on Vimeo.

Julius Koller – Express KTV from ICI on Vimeo.

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is the only independent project institution for contemporary art and architecture in Kosovo, established in 2006 by artist Albert Heta and architect Vala Osmani. Stacion is conceived of as a space for artists, architects, thinkers, critics and other sociopolitical workers committed to reflecting on and responding to relevant challenges of the contemporary society with an active, critical and emancipatory approach. Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina focuses on locally-rooted practice as well as regional, European and international processes.

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 at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is part of ‘Rethinking (Social) Space Program’ and is supported by Ministry of European Integration of the Republic of Kosovo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, Koha Group and DZG.

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