Using Humboldt’s parrot as an entry point Curator and ICI Curatorial Intensive Alumnus David Ayala-Alfonso will be joined by artists Carlos Motta and Felipe Steinberg to facilitate conversations with attendees thinking through the ways that science and collecting practices intersect with political ecologies, historical rewritings, critical museology, and fiction. These are four of the key threads that shape Ayala-Alfonso’s forthcoming ICI exhibition Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections.
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collection is a traveling exhibition that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them and their contingent origin stories. 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.
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 supporting emergent voices in the curatorial field. David Ayala-Alfonso is a Colombian Curator, Artist, and Researcher working between Bogotá and London. He is a guest curator at the traveling exhibitions program of Independent Curators International, and part of the editorial teams of Journal of Visual Culture, Cultural Anthropology and {{em_rgencia}.
This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with DAVID in the subject line.
This event is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact ICI for additional accessibility needs.