Easily get essays for sale online at the best prices for any subject

INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
exhibitions

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections

  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
  •  Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections

Curated by

On a desk of the private study collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guards a vast ornithology collection. An excited young scientist reads a story on the origins of the desiccated animal for the purpose of entertaining a group of visitors: it may have been the last “speaker” of a dead Indigenous language from colonial Venezuela, or a German prince’s precious gift to the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. There is no clear understanding which of these versions, if any, might be true.

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections is a traveling exhibition that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them and their contingent origin stories. Curated by Colombian curator David Ayala-Alfonso, an alumnus of ICI’s Curatorial Intensive, the exhibition is part of ICI’s new series of programs, pioneered with the support of the Hartfield Foundation, aimed at championing emergent curatorial voices by providing opportunities to alumni of ICI’s Curatorial Intensive. The exhibition was selected from among 66 proposals submitted by Curatorial Intensive alumni from over 30 countries.

Considering how institutional collections organize our lives, Never Spoken Again brings together artists whose works open up a critique of material culture, iconography, and political ecologies. These practices examine not only the collected objects and the systems of distribution that facilitate their circulation but also the disciplines and subjects of study that they trade in.

Variously, the works shed light on myths, simulations, fake currencies, war games, and the slow violence of systematic racism that historically underpin collecting practices. Together they open the field for considering our agency in how our histories and futures may be constituted otherwise.

Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Maria Thereza Alves, François Bucher, Giuseppe Campuzano, Alia Farid, Sofia de Grenade, Laura Huertas Millán, Ulrik López, Carlos Motta, Erkan Öznur, David Peña Lopera, Michael Rakowitz, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Reyes Santiago Rojas, Daniel R. Small, and Felipe Steinberg.

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections is a traveling exhibition curated by David Ayala-Alfonso and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). It is the result of a new series of programs, pioneered with the support of the Hartfield Foundation, aimed at providing opportunities to alumni of ICI’s Curatorial Intensive as they move through the stages of their career, and reflecting ICI’s commitment to fostering and championing new curatorial voices who will shape the future of the field. Never Spoken Again is made possible with the generous support of ICI’s Board of Trustees and International Forum. Additional support for Erkan Öznur’s participation is provided by SAHA.

updates

Listen Now! Artist, Sofia de Grenade featured on CEdA podcast

The Center for Art Studies CEdA is a platform devoted to the study and promotion of contemporary art practices in Chile. Their new podcast, hosted by Valentina Gutierrez Turbay and Sebastian Vidal Valenzuela, invites artists to discuss a central topic that defines their practice. Sofia de Grenade is the guest of episode #4, where she discusses her artistic trajectory and […]

FIND OUT MORE »

Everything out of its place: Broad Museum exhibit is a closet full of chaos

Local East Lansing news reporter writes on Never Spoken Again in the Lansing City Pulse, “This is one exhibit where you don’t want to skip reading the labels. They really live up to the promise of ‘rogue stories.’ We learn that the plaster in the artifacts is bound with hair, still visible, that was shaved from horses […]

FIND OUT MORE »

Humboldt’s Parrot: David Ayala-Alfonso, Carlos Motta and Felipe Steinberg

Humboldt’s Parrot: David Ayala-Alfonso, Carlos Motta and Felipe Steinberg in conversation

FIND OUT MORE »

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections

Still taken from Laura Huertas Millán, Journey to land otherwise known. Film. © Le Fresnoy – Laura Huertas Millán. e-flux announces Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, a traveling exhibition curated by Colombian curator and ICI Curatorial Intensive alum David Ayala-Alfonso that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them […]

FIND OUT MORE »


curator



artists

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


touring schedule

Telfair Museums, Jepson Center
Savannah, GA, USA
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970


Booking Info

Tour Dates: 2019 - 2023 Number of Artists/Collectives: Approximately 15 Number of Artworks: Approximately 15 Space Requirements: 3,000 – 5,000 sq feet or more For additional information, as well as to check specific dates of availability, contact Becky Nahom at 212.254.8200, or becky@curatorsintl.org.

ICI