Curatorial Research Bureau
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Programs

CRB is host to free programs that transform the space of a bookshop into bookshop/screening, bookshop/seminar, or bookshop/artist talk. The platform relies on the consumer form to forge a learning site where the intersections of art, design, education, and consumer culture push against the ways institutions build and address audiences.


Na Kim: SET v.19: graphic
Apr
1
to May 8

Na Kim: SET v.19: graphic

On exhibition through Fri, May 8, 2020
Free and open to the public

Na Kim’s site-specific wall drawing titled SET v.19: graphic uses a series of formal design elements—color, pattern, geometry, typography, and text—pulled from the catalogue of visual graphics in her 2015 monograph titled SET published by Roma Publications.

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The Rodina: On Performative Design
Mar
31
6:00 PM18:00

The Rodina: On Performative Design

Tue, Mar 31, 2020

*Cancelled due to Coronavirus

How to make freedom and playfulness, traditionally granted to artists, accessible to a wider audience? And, how to design situations or objects that stimulate activity and participation, that could lead to a transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designers Vit & Tereza Ruller (studio The Rodina) try to answer these questions.

Presented by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with CCA’s MFA Design

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Elena Filipovic: Reflections on Three Retrospectives
Feb
21
9:30 AM09:30

Elena Filipovic: Reflections on Three Retrospectives

Fri, Feb 21, 2020
9:30 am–12 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Curator and art historian Elena Filipovic discusses the curatorial methodologies used to organize retrospectives for Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Teresa De Keersmaker, and Zhana Ivanova.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

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Emmet Byrne: On Design and Publishing in the Context of a Contemporary Arts Center
Feb
14
9:30 AM09:30

Emmet Byrne: On Design and Publishing in the Context of a Contemporary Arts Center

Fri, Feb 14, 2020
9:30 am–12 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Design director and curator Emmet Byrne talks about his work at the Walker Art Center tying together the worlds of hybrid print/digital design, curatorial publishing, and the museum as platform.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with MFA Design. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

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New Research Forum
Feb
11
3:30 PM15:30

New Research Forum

Tue, Feb 11, 2020
3:30–5:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Students, faculty, and nearby arts professionals are encouraged to attend.

New Research Forum marks a moment in the curriculum when second-year graduate students present their research in a public forum for feedback and critical reflection on the progress toward satisfying the thesis requirement in CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice

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Sarah Rifky: Worldmaking, Forms and Curating Worlds Apart
Nov
14
3:30 PM15:30

Sarah Rifky: Worldmaking, Forms and Curating Worlds Apart

Thu, Nov 14, 2019
3–6 pm
Event closed: seating at capacity

Curator and writer Sarah Rifky leads a ProSeminar reflecting on her experiences co-founding and running state-independent art initiatives in Cairo and Alexandria.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

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Na Kim—Capturing, Sampling and Archiving: GRAPHIC magazine
Oct
24
6:00 PM18:00

Na Kim—Capturing, Sampling and Archiving: GRAPHIC magazine

Thu, Oct 24, 2019
6–7:30 pm

Graphic designer and curator Na Kim talks about her responsibilities for concept and design of the esteemed GRAPHIC magazine within the framework of documenting and archiving. She will also reflect on her monograph SET and the overlapping interplay between the spatial realities of architecture and the two-dimensional book form.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with MFA Design and Undergraduate Graphic Design

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Ute Meta Bauer: Where does art take place? Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia
Sep
26
6:00 PM18:00

Ute Meta Bauer: Where does art take place? Spaces of the Curatorial in Southeast Asia

Thu, Sep 26, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Internationally renowned curator and professor of contemporary art talks about her curatorial work as Founding Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the vital role of small-scale arts institutions in Southeast Asia.

Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice in partnership with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

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chronic freedom: a monument “against dialogue” on the Northern California hippie-grower insurgency
May
15
6:00 PM18:00

chronic freedom: a monument “against dialogue” on the Northern California hippie-grower insurgency

Wed, May 15, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Berlin-based artist, writer and archivist Scott Holmquist presents chronic freedom, the lead volume in a series of five hand-made artist books that portray a macroscopic history of the back-to-land and marijuana culture in Southern Humboldt County, California, from the late 1960s to 2010.

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Allan deSouza
Apr
25
6:00 PM18:00

Allan deSouza

Thu, Apr 25, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Artist and writer Allan deSouza speaks with James Voorhies, CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, about his recent publication How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change, which examines the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught.

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Communities and Institutions: A Conversation
Apr
20
12:00 PM12:00

Communities and Institutions: A Conversation

Sat, Apr 20, 2019
12–2 pm
(free and open to the public)

Students of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA present a public panel discussion examining the roles and responsibilities of curators in building communities and audiences. Panelists Deena Chalabi, Daniela Lieja Quinatar, Lian Ladia, and Megan Steinman will address how curators cultivate and incorporate the voices of a community in their practice, how new communities are created through commissioned art initiatives, and what it means to engage various kinds of communities as an institution.

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Reviewing Design Book Review
Apr
17
6:00 PM18:00

Reviewing Design Book Review

Wed, Apr 17, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

On the occasion of the digital release of the full run Design Book Review, Mimi Zeiger will join founding publishers and editors, Elizabeth Snowden and John Parman, editors Barry Katz and William Littman, and contributor Margaret Crawford to discuss the legacy of Design Book Review and explore the present state and future prospects of design history, theory, and criticism.

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Maria Lind
Apr
3
6:00 PM18:00

Maria Lind

Wed, Apr 3, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Swedish curator and writer Maria Lind speaks about her curatorial practice, specifically her experience engaging and building diverse audiences at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm where she served as director since 2011 to 2018.

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Céline Condorelli: Support Structures
Apr
3
to Apr 30

Céline Condorelli: Support Structures

Apr 3–30, 2019
(free and open to the public)

What does it mean to practice support? How can collective strategies be used to create community and thus a support network? How can we as curators and creative practitioners build and implement support structures within institutions? For our eighth Case Studies exhibition, we selected Céline Condorelli’s book Support Structures as the focal point for studying a range of methodologies and analyses of support in the arts.

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A Brief History of Bay Area Now: Artists and Curators in Conversation
Mar
24
3:00 PM15:00

A Brief History of Bay Area Now: Artists and Curators in Conversation

Sun, Mar 24, 2019
2–3:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

As YBCA celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, it looks back at the artists and curators who have contributed to its longest-running exhibition, Bay Area Now. The Curatorial Research Bureau hosts a panel of key voices who can speak personally to the triennial’s legacy of resilience, creativity, and connection.

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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Mar
20
6:00 PM18:00

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

American artist and designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon talks with Vee Moran, co-publisher of Owl Cave Books, and James Voorhies, CCA Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, about her wide-ranging installation practice and her new books published by San Francisco-based Owl Cave.

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Dore Bowen, Constance Lewallen, and Ted Mann—Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters
Feb
20
6:00 PM18:00

Dore Bowen, Constance Lewallen, and Ted Mann—Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters

Wed, Feb 20, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Art Historian Dore Bowen and Curators Constance Lewallen and Ted Mann speak about their new book Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, the first publication to solely take up Nauman’s corridors and architectural installations.

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Julia Born: New Forms of Reading / New Forms of Design
Feb
6
6:00 PM18:00

Julia Born: New Forms of Reading / New Forms of Design

Wed, Feb 6, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Swiss designer Julia Born presents a selection of her publications and exhibitions focusing on how she uses design to propose new narratives and ways of reading. This event is organized in partnership with CCA MFA Design and swissnex San Francisco, with support from Pro Helvetia.

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Yann Chateigné: By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape
Jan
31
6:00 PM18:00

Yann Chateigné: By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape

Thu, Jan 31, 2019
6–7:30 pm
(free and open to the public)

Switzerland-based, French curator and writer Yann Chateigné speaks about research on a forthcoming project that draws connections between 1960s counterculture experiments in the Bay Area, early European avant-gardes, and contemporary Swiss artists and musicians. This event is organized in partnership with swissnex San Francisco, with support from Pro Helvetia.

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