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Watch Now! Curator's Perspective: Nicolas Bourriaud

As part of ICI’s Curator’s Perspective — an itinerant public discussion series featuring national and international curators — Nicolas Bourriaud, Director of Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo), will present on the theoretical framework underpinning his current role as the Curator of the 16th Istanbul Biennial that will take place between September 14 and November 10, 2019.

Bourriaud will contribute to the Biennial's history of strong curatorial statements since its creation in 1987. Seeing the city itself as "a crossing point," Bourriaud has said he will consider the special significance of Istanbul in today's "global political era marked by binary thought, and try to build an exhibition that measures up to our historical situation.”

For the last 32 years, the Istanbul Biennial has engaged an exhibition model that enables a dialogue between artists and the audiences through the work of the artists instead of a national representation model. Ten years ago, ICI’s Curator’s Perspective Series began with an inaugural lecture by Vasif Kortun—the first single curator to direct the Biennial independently in 1992.

Co-presented by the James Gallery and Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Presenter
Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud, born in 1965, is a curator and writer.