Saturday, June 30
3–5pm
ICI Curatorial Hub
New York, NY
Speakers will engage with the idea of “the agency” through various projects, debating the possibility of art as a vehicle for social change, and the shift in the roles of both artist and curator on the border between art and activism. Participants include Maayan Sheleff, Curator, CCA Tel Aviv, recipient of ISCP’s 2012 Curator Award, and Chelsea Haines, Public Programs Manager, ICI, amongst others.
Image: Yael and Pinhas, from “The Troubleshooting Agency” project
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The Curatorial Hub at ICI
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
Maayan Sheleff is a Curator at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, and an independent curator. She is the Assistant Director and a faculty member at the Curatorial Studies Program of the Kibbutzim College of Education and the CCA. In addition she teaches a practical curating course in The Sam Spiegel Film and Television school, Jerusalem, and lectures in various other programs. She has been the Director and curator of Line 16, community Gallery for contemporary art in Tel Aviv, for 4 years. She has initiated and curated many exhibitions in various spaces and in the public sphere, and has been the co-curator of ARTLV09, the 1st Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial. Maayan participated in the Fall 2011 Curatorial Intensive, Curating in the Public Realm.