Kathryn Smith, independent curator, and Senior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch, and Susan Hapgood, Director of Exhibitions, ICI (Independent Curators International) discuss Project 35, ICI’s new evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators.  A selection from the first issue of the series will be presented, featuring work by artists Robert Cauble (selected by Raimundas Malasauskas), Guy Ben-Ner (selected by Mai Abu ElDahab), Kota Ezawa (selected by Constance Lewallen), Dan Halter (selected by Kathryn Smith), Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Phù Nam Thuc Ha (selected by Zoe Butt), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (selected by Franklin Sirmans), Edwin Sánchez (selected by José Roca), Yukihiro Taguchi (selected by Mami Kataoka), and Zhou Xiaohu (selected by Lu Jie).

For Project 35, each curator has been invited to select one artist’s video that they think vital for contemporary art audiences across the globe. The result heralds the new decade with an eclectic compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today.

Project 35 is being launched this month at the Saint Joseph College Art Gallery (West Hartford, CT), and will also be presented at the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia, PA); Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science (Sioux Falls, SD); William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs, CT); LAXART (Los Angeles, CA); San Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam); Press to Exit Project Space (Skopje, Macedonia); and the NEXT Art Fair (Chicago, IL), with many more locations to be announced.

Image credit: Dan Halter, Untitled (Zimbabwean Queen of Rave), 2005

7 to 9 pm

A lecture by Susan Hapgood, ICI’s Director of Exhibitions and curator of the exhibition Slightly Unbalanced.

For more information please visit the University of Richmond Museums’ website.

Image: Louise Bourgeois
Femme (Woman), 2005
Bronze with silver-nitrate patina
13 x 16 1/2 x 7 3/4
Collection of the artist; courtest Cheim & Read, New York

Susan Hapgood, ICI’s Director of Exhibitions, will present a talk which will address various approaches to curating exhibitions of contemporary art, looking at some of the ways the practice has changed in recent years. She will use specific examples from ICI’s program and question the role of the curator in the current globalized art environment, leading to discussion of future initiatives under way at the ICI.

This program is organized in association with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (CSMVS), The Museum Society of Bombay and Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Admission is free and open to all on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Let’s talk: Reinvention will highlight the ideas and work of professionals who are currently catalyzing productive change in the art world, bringing together an innovative line-up of speakers, including Colin Chinnery, Richard Flood, Matthew Higgs, Mari Spirito, Franklin Sirmans, Nato Thompson, and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. Daily programs start at 2pm and include video screenings, presentations and discussions, moderated by Kate Fowle, Executive Director of ICI.

DAILY SCHEDULE

Video Screenings:
December 3-5:   
2-3pm, Projection curated by Cleopatra’s
The Brooklyn-based collaborative harnesses the energies of Bridget Donahue, Bridget Finn, Kate McNamara, and Erin Somerville. Projection, consists of 3-minute, black and-white silent videos, produced in response to the phrase FUTURE TENSE, from 30 emerging artists and filmmakers.

3-4pm, ICI: Project 35
ICI will present sneak previews from their upcoming exhibition Project 35, which brings together artists videos selected by 35 international curators, who were asked “Which artist’s video work would you like to be seen by as many people as possible around the world in 2010?”

Panel Discussions:
Thursday, December 3:
4-5pm, New Audiences, New Styles, New Languages
Panelists: Richard Flood (Chief Curator, New Museum), Franklin Sirmans (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection), and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Director and Chief Curator, Aspen Art Museum)

Friday, December 4:
4-5pm, Creating and Supporting Hybrid Practices
Panelists: Colin Chinnery (Fair Director, ShContemporary), Nato Thompson (Chief Curator, Creative Time), and Mari Spirito (Director, 303 Gallery)

Question Time:
Thurs & Fri, December 3-4:
5:30-6pm, Ask Matthew! 
Matthew Higgs, Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, will be answering 10 of your burning questions. Art Fair visitors and exhibitors alike will be asked to submit questions in advance at drop boxes located throughout the fair.

Saturday, December 5:
4-5pm, The Survivors Club
ICI hosts a cocktail hour and impromptu conversation forum

Let’s talk: Reinvention has been created to trigger debate on the many ways that roles and practices can be transformed through our current evolving art world.

Daily admission is free and open to the public.

ICI is organizing an open discussion about new ways to develop exhibitions, with artist Harrell Fletcher, curator Kristan Kennedy and additional guests, moderated by Kate Fowle, ICI’s executive director. The evening will include video screenings of Siebren Versteeg’s Fresh Acconci, and works from ICI’s exhibition, Broadcast.  Before the discussion or after, take a tour of the lumber room’s distinguished installation of Minimalist art. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served. This is the first in a new series of nationwide events that connect ICI exhibitions with current national issues and concerns.

In conjunction with the Hilliard University Museum of Art’s presentation of Slightly Unbalanced, the exhibition curator, and ICI’s Director of Exhibitions, Susan Hapgood, will lead a discussion on the widespread appearance of psychological themes in contemporary art from the 1960s to the present.

A conversation between Irene Hofmann and Brooke Gladstone, organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery