Kate Phillimore and Matthew de Pulford propose the jester as a vehicle for understanding playfulness, mediation, diplomacy and rebellion within curatorial practice.
Rachel Garfield explains how a desire to critique dominant models of the mainstream informs her curatorial practice.
Launched in October, the International Curators’ Forum website supports its aim to provide an open conceptual network around emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar.
Lee Simmons talks to Emily Druiff about her curatorial practice, partnership working and her shift from artist to curator.
Chintan Upadhyay and Bose Krishnamachari have been voicing their concerns about Indian curatorial practice through their art projects for the last few years. Considering their arguments, JohnyML says that Indian curatorial practice is going through a phase of crisis; a phase of identity crisis.
A recent forum in Dundee addressed issues surrounding curatorial practice and the relationship between artist and curator. Rob Hunter attended and reports back.
Eight ambitious curators take part in a research trip to Northern Ireland.
Opportunity for visual arts curators living and working in England, Scotland or Wales to visit Northern Ireland.
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The curator me I am an independent South Asian Artist Curator. My curatorial approach begins with ‘Art’ as a catalyst and framework for the organic process which invites creative practice, theory and collective conversation to allow for happenings. For me, […]
Analysis of using mirrors There’s an external reflection that’s public and everyone can see as a form of public identity, but there’s also an internal reflection that’s personal and happens when one is by themselves. Mirrors in the work makes […]
Virtual Artist Residency with Louisa Chambers (UK), Edy Fung (IE/SE), Tracy Mackenna (SCO/IT) & Edwin Janssen (NL), Danica Maier (USA/UK), Michelle McKeown (IE/UK), Stefanos Pavlakis (GR/DE)
(Via Microsoft Teams) Identify with what it is with the artists you research Reed diffusers Wilt – loses woodiness, not rigid Similar to distorting metal in the last semester Material quality understood as wood Surreal occurrence The one with perfume […]
I’m designing a book that’s an extension of my practice. The title is Organic Matter and Decay because the feedback from the self-directed crit the other day was that the drawings referred to reclaimed and found things which says to […]
Influential Director of Wysing Arts Centre, who was made an MBE in 2020, has died after living with lung cancer for the last two years.
I filmed Clean my sheets (video here), which is a documentation of washing up liquid being dripped onto the sheets of steel. From my previous post, I wrote about the neat being in contradiction to the disorganised, but I noticed […]
A question I have been asking myself this weekend is where does my recent work sit with the idea of the uncanny? The uncanny came about in Freud’s essay, which stems from the word unheimlich, and he writes that it’s […]
This is initially the artists I choose (at the moment) in my proposed proposal for the models and methods of curatorial practice module. Chris Huen Sin-kan Peter Friedl Cheikh Ndiaye Damian Massey What connects these artists’ work together is how […]
Rosemary Shirley explores new approaches to curating in rural contexts including New Geographies, a project developed by a consortium of nine arts organisations based in the East of England, and Ian Giles work as part of the project, Open Ramble East, which looks at queering rural places through rambling walks.
