INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL curatorial intensive

Summer 2011

Program Dates:

July 10–18, 2011

Application Deadline: Passed

Recognizing the need to support curatorial talent and provide low-cost practical training in the current economic climate, Independent Curators International (ICI) initiated the Curatorial Intensive — the first major short-course training program for emerging curators in the United States. Last year ICI organized two iterations of the Curatorial Intensive, bringing 31 curators from 14 countries and 13 states to New York to develop ideas for exhibitions and strengthen their curatorial thinking.

In summer 2011, 12 curators from around the world were selected from an open competition to participate in the next Curatorial Intensive for a rigorous 8-day schedule of workshops, discussions, critiques, and presentations, as well as site visits to local institutions, private collections, and artists’ studios. Teachers and advisors for this program included independent curators Cecilia Alemani, Regine Basha, and Teresa Gleadowe; Kate Fowle, Executive Director, ICI; Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Curator of Contemporary Art, Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Matthew Higgs, Director and Chief Curator, White Columns; and Christian Rattemeyer, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings, MoMA.

After the New York phase of the project is complete, ICI will continue working with participants long-distance to finalize their proposals for publication on ICI’s website. Based on ICI’s frequent requests from aspiring curators who approach the organization for advice with ideas for exhibitions, this program provides a practical and hands-on professional development course in the world of curating exhibitions.

The Curatorial Intensive was developed by ICI’s Executive Director, Kate Fowle, who joined ICI after working as the International Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Prior to her time in China, Fowle spent 6 years in San Francisco at the California College of the Arts, where she was the director of the MA Program in Curatorial Practice, which she founded in 2002 with Ralph Rugoff.

Read about the fall 2010 iteration of the Curatorial Intensive, focused on curating in the public realm.

Read about the pilot Curatorial Intensive program in summer 2010.

Credits

The Curatorial Intensive is made possible, in part, by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Dedalus Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and by generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, James Cohan, and the supporters of ICI’s Access Fund.

Teachers & Advisors

Chelsea Haines, Kate Fowle, Christian Rattemeyer, Renaud Proch, Fran Wu Giarratano, Matthew Higgs, Regine Basha, Claire Gilman, Teresa Gleadowe, Andy Horwitz, Kari Conte, Mari Spirito, Richard Birkett, Allison Weisberg, Anne Barlow, Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion, D. Graham Burnett, Cecilia Alemani, Kalia Brooks, Alaina Claire Feldman

Participants

Yulia Askenova, Ieva Astahovska, Lucy Badrocke, Freya Chou, Veronica Cordeiro, Shaun Dacey, Ryan Frank, Birta Gudjondottir, Michal Novotny, Ksenija Orelj, Cortney Stell, Banu Tulu

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Proposals

  • Monocrome By Michal Novotny

    The exhibition Monocrome defines monochrome as a representation of something missing. The aim of this show is not to create, state, or underline any movement, style, or tendency in a traditional art historical way.

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  • Cancel Part Out: To Cut Parlance By Sam Korman

    Cancel Part Out is an iterative exhibition that provides a format for understanding artworks within an exhibition context through the lens of the anagram.

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  • The SpareTime Project By Freya Chou

    The SpareTime Project is an on-line project exploring how the notion of “ Time” interferes with the production of art creation and an opportunity to discuss the ambiguous definition of one’s occupational identity and labor exchange.

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  • Obsess Much By Ryan Frank

    Obsess Much brings together a group of emerging and mid-career artists whose work re-examines collage and assemblage as contemporary artistic mediums.

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  • Visionary Worlds By Ieva Astahovska

    Visionary Worlds is an exhibition about visionary and utopian realities existing in imagination rather than in the real world, yet essentially illuminating limits of the real world. The exhibition focuses on how the concept of visionarism and imagination about future realities has changed from the past forty years until today.

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  • surcontexto By Veronica Cordeiro

    surcontexto is a contemporary art platform based in Montevideo, Uruguay, dedicated to generating projects that prioritize the production of knowledge and experience of curatorial and artistic practices today with its focus on South and Latin American art and culture.

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  • Nearly Real Things By Cortney Stell

    Nearly Real Things explores, literally or metaphorically, the act of transformation within contemporary consciousness, identity, society, and class by carefully investigating our relationships to current biological or technological metamorphoses.

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