Curatorial Conversations, co-organized by The Galleries and Moore's BFA in Curatorial Studies major, discuss the creative nexus between curating and a variety of other societal mandates such as education and activism.
RECENT EVENTS
Curating and Risk: A Day of Conversations
March 13, 2010
Curating and Risk: A Day of Conversations is the fifth in a series of public conversations about issues and ideas in contemporary curatorial practice. Through a series of grouped conversations with a roster of distinguished panelists, we will examine multiple ways in which curatorial activities can interrogate and engage risk. In this time of insecurities, rather than turning toward safety, what is a risky project/idea—financial, political, artistic, intellectual, aesthetic, moral, organizational, conceptual, administrative—for curators and artists? Is there creative release in the pleasure of ideas when risk is embraced rather than avoided? How do you access the successes and failures of risky projects? Or has risk become simply trendy? What is really at stake? And for whom?
Featured panelists:
Featuring SHERYL CONKELTON Philadelphia based curator, formerly curator at Temple Gallery/Tyler School of Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY and Los Angeles County Museum of Art; DAVID DEMPEWOLF co-founder of Marginal Utility gallery and the zine Machete, Philadelphia, PA; HOMER JACKSON interdisciplinary artist, Philadelphia, PA; RUBY LERNER President and CEO of Creative Capital, New York, NY; AARON LEVY Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; LANA LIN and LAN THAO LAM New York based interdisciplinary collaborative artist team (LIN + LAM); RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM Director and Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY; NATO THOMPSON Chief Curator at Creative Time, New York, NY; RICHARD TORCHIA artist and Director, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA.
Video interludes previewing Project 35, an international video exhibition of historic and contemporary works selected by 35 curators from around the globe. Project 35 is produced and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York.
Moderators:
Janet Kaplan, Professor of Art History and Director of Curatorial Studies, Moore; Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator, The Galleries at Moore
This symposium is supported by Moore College of Art & Design through Frances and Bayard Storey, Moore’s MFA in Studio Art, The Galleries at Moore and the Liberal Arts Department.
RSVP by March 8, 2010. Admission FREE and open to the public. Pre-registration via email is requested. For more information and to RSVP: 215-965-4027; jkaplan@moore.edu; galleries@moore.edu
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Curating and Activism: An International Panel and Conversation
March 29, 2009
Participants: Katherine Carl, curator and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, architect, founding members of The School of Missing Studies; Stamatina Gregory, Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Sharon Hayes, performance artist, Cooper Union; Carin Kuoni, Director, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics; Steve Kurtz, founding member, Critical Art Ensemble; Adam Pendleton, founder of LAB--an artist think tank; Michael Rakowitz, artist, Northwestern University; Anton Vidokle, artist and Founder of Night School at the New Museum; Martha Wilson, artist and Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.; Video interludes by Andrea Bowers and Josephine Meckseper.
Moderators: Daniel Fuller, Senior Program Specialist, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative; Janet Kaplan, Porfessor of Art History and Director of the BFA in Curatorial Studies at Moore; Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator, The Galleries at Moore.
This symposium was supported by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and Moore College of Art & Design through generous support from Frances and Bayard Storey.
CLICK HERE to view the panel discussion footage at Vimeo.com.
Curatorial Conversations II
March 20, 2008
Participants: Sheryl Conkelton, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, Temple Tyler Galleries; Daniel Fuller, Senior Program Specialist, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Center for Arts & Heritage; Jenelle Porter, Associate Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Shelley Spector, Independent Curator, Spector Projects; John Caperton, Curator of Prints and Photographs, The Print Center
This program was presented by the Galleries at Moore and Moore’s BFA in Curatorial Studies major.
Curating and Education: An International Panel and Conversation
October 27, 2007
Participants: Eungie Joo, Director & Curator of Education and Public Programs, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Janet Kaplan, Professor of Art History and Director of the BFA in Curatorial Studies at Moore; Maria Lind, Incoming Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; Paula Marincola, Director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, of The Pew Charitable Trusts; Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator, The Galleries at Moore; Pepon Osorio, Professor at Tyler School of the Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia; Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art , Menil Collection, Houston; Wendy Woon, The Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education, Museum of Modern Art, New York
This symposium was made possible through support from Frances and Bayard Storey.
View our Curatorial Conversation videos HERE on Vimeo.com