Clockwise from top left: RAWBASE Resource Center at Raw Material Company, Dakar; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Videotage, Hong Kong; Matadero Madrid.
ICI's Curatorial Hub at TEMP
December 1, 2012–January 27, 2013
TEMP
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
Opening reception: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 6-8pm
From December 1, 2012, to January 27, 2013, ICI will present at TEMP, an art project space in TriBeCa, New York, a series of artists’ projects and archives from four organizations—Matadero Madrid; Videotage, Hong Kong; Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius; and Raw Material Company, Dakar—which are part of ICI’s rapidly growing international network of partnering art spaces and curators. ICI’s new flexible and generative exhibitions formed the basis of recent collaborations with these organizations across the world, and ICI is now presenting a selection of their programs for the first time in New York.
Throughout its 37-year history, ICI has uniquely positioned itself to reflect on the nature of exhibitions that travel around the world and across social, political and cultural borders. Three years ago ICI began developing new models for itinerant exhibitions that can travel further and generate new content at every venue, taking into account the local contexts at each institution. Ranging from an international single-channel video program (Project 35), to a survey of the past 20 years of social practice stored on a hard drive (Living as Form: The Nomadic Version), to a selection of materials surrounding one of the most infamous exhibitions in contemporary history shipped in a Fed-Ex box (Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5), many ICI exhibitions are traveling content that can be reconfigured, localized and expanded, offering diverse possibilities for collaboration.
As a result, ICI has been able to engage directly with a large number of museums, art centers, university galleries, libraries and artists-run spaces on all continents, sharing dialogue with others in the field. Among them, ICI invited Matadero Madrid; Videotage, Hong Kong; CAC, Vilnius; and Raw Material Company, Dakar, to present their archives and recent exhibitions to a New York audience. The projects will be shown at TEMP, an art space located around the corner from ICI’s offices and Curatorial Hub. This exhibition will act as an extension of the Curatorial Hub, which for the past year has offered the discursive space to encourage international dialogue and exchange by hosting a series of public events, lectures and screenings.
The projects on view at TEMP will include: Matadero Madrid’s Archimobile, a traveling archive of over 100 artists all connected to the city of Madrid, which Curatorial Intensive alumna Andrea Hill will activate by conceiving the New York presentation and commissioning a new work; CAC’s presentation of recent works, videos and photographs selected by curator and former ICI Curatorial Fellow Virginija Januskeviciute and independent curator Inesa Pavlovskaite; Videotage’s Hong Kong additions to Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) alongside a compilation of works from the Videotage Media Art Collection, selected by Nevena Ivanova and produced by Helen Homan Wu; and a representation of Raw Material Company’s resource center for Africa-related art practices, selected by RMC’s founder and artist director Koyo Kouoh, who will participate in ICI’s Curator’s Perspective, just one of the many public events planned to take place in conjunction with the exhibition.
ICI Curatorial Hub at TEMP is made possible in part by grants from the Auchincloss Foundation, the Hartfield Foundation, and Spain Culture New York-Consulate General of Spain: member of the network Spain Arts & Culture, and by contributions from the supporters of the ICI Access Fund, and ICI’s Board of Trustees.
Related Events:
Bubi Canal Photography Workshop
Saturday, December 8, 2012
2 - 6pm
TEMP Art Space
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
FREE, rsvp to rsvp@curatorsintl.org
This class is an introduction to the creation of photo images. Participants will experience a shoot with a model, use props and wardrobe, as well as select and edit the photographs. The workshop is free of charge and is part of the ICI Curatorial Hub in TEMP Art Space. All levels welcome. Class size is limited so please reserve your space by emailing rsvp@curatorsintl.org.
An evening of screenings
Organized by Inesa Pavlovskaite and Helen Homan Wu
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
6pm
TEMP Art Space
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
FREE
In conjunction with the presentations of Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Videotage, Hong Kong at the ICI Curatorial Hub @ TEMP, two films making their New York debuts will be screened:
Gerda Paliušytė, Evening with Doctor Sheppard, 2012, 40 min.
Chun Yip Lo, Days After N Coming, 2012, 1 hour, 40 min. (starting at 7pm)
Film Screening and Conversation with Ellen Pau, Director of Videotage
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
6:30pm
ICI Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
FREE, rsvp to rsvp@curatorsintl.org
Panel Discussion: Art and Crisis
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
TEMP Art Space
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
FREE, rsvp to rsvp@curatorsintl.org
Speakers include David Maroto (Spanish artist based in The Netherlands), Imma Prieto (ERAM, Girona University, Independent Curator and Art Critic, VideoStorias), Avelino Sala (artist, editor of Sublime magazine, and curator in the group Commission Curatorial Collective). The panel will be moderated by Renee Vara (Blockhouse, INPUT, Editor + Curator, NYU Professor).
Videotage Artist Roundtable
Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:30–8pm
TEMP Art Space
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
FREE, rsvp to rsvp@curatorsintl.org
The roundtable will include presentations by Hong Kong artists Lo Chun Yip, Linda Lai, and Cheng Yee Man, and will be moderated by curator Nevena Ivanova.
Panel Discussion: Construyendo un Lugar / Constructing a Place
Sunday, January 27, 2013
3–4:30pm
TEMP Art Space
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
FREE, rsvp to rsvp@curatorsintl.org
The panel at TEMP will address such issues, in particular the overlap between projection, practice, and representation. The panelists will rethink the conditions in which certain gestures appear and manifest themselves, and how such gestures convey the knowledge and the understanding of the world we live in. Barbara Adams, Mary Di Lucia, Maria Iñigo Clavo, Steven Henry Madoff, Timon McPhearson, Lize Mogel, Ernesto Pujol, and Damon Rich—fundamental representatives of a variety of disciplines such as writing, ecology, sociology, poetry, performance, art, and cartography—will be sharing their views. The event will be presented by Andrea Hill and is organized and moderated by Laura F. Gibellini.
Please join us following the event for a closing reception of ICI Curatorial Hub at TEMP.
Images:
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), courtesy of CAC.
Vista áerea Matadero Madrid, courtesy of Matadero Madrid's flickr.
Raw Material Company's resource centre, Rawbase. Courtesy of Raw Material Company.
