Research - Independent Curators International

Journal

Garifunas Communities: Exiled and Anti-Colonial Resilience

Pablo José Ramírez, the sixth recipient of the ICI/CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean in 2019, reflects on his travels.

Carlos Kong, a core participant of the Comradeship Reading Group, reflects on the program and the publication, Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe.

Marta Kazungu reflects on her experience as a participant in the 2019 Curatorial Intensive in Cape Town.

Nic Brierre Aziz reflects on his experience as a participant in the 2019 Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans.

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fellowships

2019 FELLOWSHIP NEWS

RECIPIENT OF THE 2019 CPPC TRAVEL AWARD
Pablo José Ramírez

Research Awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni

The Joyce Foundation, as well as the Dedalus Foundation and SAHA, and have been providing research awards for Curatorial Intensive Alumni to encourage productive networks between curators.

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Media Room

Pablo José Ramírez: Translation and Racial Cosmopolitanism

The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77

Video of Curator’s Perspective talk with Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

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ici Library

The ICI Library, like the Curatorial Hub in which it resides, is a public resource for studying the evolution of curating, exhibition making, and new ways of supporting artists’ practices. The library functions at the nexus of recent art theory and discourse, art, and curatorial practices — organized through the lens of contemporary issues in curating.

The ICI Library currently houses over 1,600 publications. It comprises a comprehensive and international range of texts on curatorial theory, readers from curatorial symposiums and seminars compiled by ICI, seminal modern and contemporary art-historical surveys, specialist publications on art movements, numerous important exhibition catalogues, and a range of international periodicals. It was developed in response to a distinct need for curators to have access to literature that is rare, out of print, little known, or hard to find. In addition, the ICI Library is the permanent home of Cleopatra’s Library. A Brooklyn-based collaborative and art space, Cleopatra’s initiated its book collection in 2008 by inviting over 300 curators whom they collectively admired to take part in the formation of a reference library.

ACCESS

The books in the ICI Library are non-circulating, but we encourage visitors to schedule an appointment to access this unique resource. You can begin by exploring the ICI Library holdings through our digital database, LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/CuratorsINTL

ARCHIVE

In addition to a growing collection of publications, the ICI Library also houses a comprehensive archive of video and audio recordings of ICI events, talks, seminars, and conferences. This archive is available for consultation and research by appointment.

about ici

Independent Curators International (ICI) supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. Curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art. Our collaborative programs connect curators across generations, and across social, political and cultural borders. They form an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources — promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness for the curator’s role.

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Join ICI’s network of supporters, and help building a dynamic international exchange platform for the curators, artists and art spaces that advance the reach of art practice in the 21st century; and gain access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in art, curating, and exhibition-making today.