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.
Curators Fiona Ball, Naz Cuguoglu and Orly Vermes present new research at the forefront of curatorial discourse. Ball weighs the ambitions and contradictions of the 2017 edition of the Getty’s scholarly initiative Pacific Standard Time, which focused on Latinx art and artists; Cuguoglu evaluates major exhibitions in the last decade of the artist Etel Adnan’s career, questioning the changing value of the “discovery narrative” from a feminist perspective; and Orly Vermes parses the 1993 exhibition curated by the artist Charles Gaines Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, making clear the show’s contentious juxtaposition between artworks by black artists and the critical language that both frames and refuses them.
These projects manifest from the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice’s Thesis Project seminar directed by J. Myers-Szupinska. Together with the collectively curated exhibition, which opens at the Wattis Institute in April, these individual research projects are the central focus of the program’s second year, and a crucial component of their qualification for degree.
Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice
