Bulletin Board - Kamau Amu Patton : Moving out of the way of an empty space
Monday, May 3, 2010 - Monday, August 30, 2010
Kamau Amu Patton appropriates the public bulletin board as a site for the dissemination of a guided experience: a visualization exercise to program an experience of human consciousness through a set of instructions. As part of the exhibition, a public visualization exercise, utilizing video and sound, will take place on May 4 at 5:30pm in Weis Cinema.
Bulletin Board - Kamau Amu Patton : Moving out of the way of an empty space
Monday, May 3, 2010 - Monday, August 30, 2010
Kamau Amu Patton appropriates the public bulletin board as a site for the dissemination of a guided experience: a visualization exercise to program an experience of human consciousness through a set of instructions. As part of the exhibition, a public visualization exercise, utilizing video and sound, will take place on May 4 at 5:30pm in Weis Cinema.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 - Sunday, May 23, 2010
Each Spring, second-year CCS Bard graduate students curate exhibitions and projects with leading and emerging contemporary artists in the CCS Bard Galleries. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. Don't miss this opportunity to see the next generation of artists and curators. Opening Reception: Sunday, April 11, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Beyond the White Cube: Ilana Halperin: At What Moment Does Limestone Become Marble
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Asking if there is a line that can blur between biology and geology, artist Ilana Halperin presents performative nighttime lectures along the trail to the just-thawed Kaaterskill Waterfalls.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - Monday, May 3, 2010
A video screening and presentation of previously published newspaper projects presents work by the artists’ collective What is to be Done (Chto Delat). Since 2003, the group has been a leader of Leftist activism in Moscow and St. Petersburg, producing newspapers, visual art, and carrying out public actions that support the pathos of the workers’ movement.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 - Sunday, March 21, 2010
Each Spring, second-year CCS Bard graduate students curate exhibitions and projects with leading and emerging contemporary artists in the CCS Bard Galleries. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. Don't miss this opportunity to see the next generation of artists and curators. Opening Reception: Sunday, February 7, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - Monday, March 15, 2010 Mass Recording (To Be Read From Right to Left) is a photographic installation centered around a reappropriated image that was originally featured on the cover of a German newspaper, depicting an Obama rally held in Berlin during his campaign for the United States presidency in 2008. Reframing, recirculating, recontextualizing the image—as well as ultimately “returning” it to its American context—artist Erik Blinderman calls our attention to its problematics, continuing his inquiry into the intersection of representation, media, and politics in contemporary life.
Monday, December 14, 2009 - Saturday, December 19, 2009
Four artists, located in Istanbul and beyond, challenge notions of site specificity and geographical belonging. Curated by first year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, I'm Not There proposes a crossroads of individuals and absences, the concrete and the ephemeral, "here and elsewhere." Centered around an intervention by Can Altay in the space of a small conference room, the exhibition features a postcard edition by Yasemin Ozcan Kaya, a sound work by Cevdet Erek, and a screening of videos by Köken Ergun.
Bulletin Board - Neli Ruzic & Marie-Christine Camus: Journey to the Island (The Hole/The Midwife)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - Monday, February 1, 2010 Journey to the Island is a project by artists Neli Ruzic and Marie-Christine Camus. Through the recording of testimonies and photographs, they narrate the story of a particular moment on the island of Solta in Croatia. A pit known as Rudine in 1943 was used to disappear people suspected of being against the Yugoslavian resistance (the partisans) and in 1998 was transformed into a memorial. The artists are interested in the myths that arise from the oral histories of this place, in this case specifically the story of a midwife, one of the victims.
Location:
CCS Bard Bulletin Board, Bertelsmann Campus Center
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - Saturday, December 5, 2009
Anna Ostoya raises important questions about who has access to information and for whom is it legible or useful. The installation is a site-specific abstract collage made of printed and photocopied papers taken from various bulletin boards located on Bard’s campus that references the transparency of information within an institution of higher education. This can be perceived as pure abstraction without reference to the real world while simultaneously touching upon political aspects of minimal and conceptual art practices.
Location:
CCS Bard Bulletin Board, Bertelsmann Campus Center
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - Thursday, October 15, 2009
Curious prints of animals, geometric objects, natural and urban landscapes, human anatomy and poetic portraits produce worlds steeped in melancholic mysticism, shaped equally by Leya Mira-Brander’s own experiences and imagination and the romanticized medium of copper etching in which she works. Selected: Untitled 1997-2009 presents works previously exhibited at the 28th Sao Paulo Bienal, In Living Contact, 2008.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - Sunday, May 24, 2009
A series of commissions created specifically for the Poughkeepsie Journal, a daily local newspaper in Dutchess County. Everyday life processes and the specifics of the newspaper will characterize and define the works in this circulating exhibitions, which will appear weekly between April 15 and May 24. Artists include Jens Haaning, Dexter Sinister, Erick Beltran, Bernd Krauss, Interboro and Bard College Studio Arts Program Senior Students. Curated by Marion Ritter.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - Sunday, May 24, 2009
Curated by 8 first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, In a Room Anything Can Happen presents work by more than 30 artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, including Janine Antoini, Joseph Beuys, Valie Export, Mona Hatoum, Donald Judd, William Kentridge, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, and many others.
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - Sunday, May 24, 2009
This spring the Center for Curatorial Studies presents a series of 15 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in the Center’s graduate program. These exhibitions and projects are the culmination of the students’ work towards the master of arts degree in curatorial studies. Series 1 is on view from March 8 through April 5 with an opening reception on Sunday, March 8 from 1 - 4 p.m. Artist Carola Dertnig will give a performance at 2 p.m. during the opening on March 8. Series 2 is on view from April 19 through May 24, with an opening reception on Sunday, April 19 from 1 - 4 p.m.
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - Friday, April 17, 2009 In The Sky Should be Perfectly Blue, Pete Deevakul constructs images reminiscent of picture postcards, using scenes culled from numerous Google Image searches. Deevakul then inserts Bobby Fischer, the world-renowned chess champion, into each landscape scene. The result is a series of surreal and absurd images that raise questions of memory and persona through the lens of psychedelia.
Erik Wysocan: The Sleep of Reason / The Dream of Reason / El Sueno De La Razon
Monday, January 26, 2009 - Thursday, March 5, 2009 The Center for Curatorial Studies is the third venue to host Matthew Higgs's (Curator and Director of White Columns, New York City) bulletin board project. In fall 2007, CCS Bard and Higgs collaborated to begin a bulletin board program at Bard that would be curated by Center graduate students. As of January 26, the bulletin board has migrated from outside of the CCS Bard Library to its new location in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The first project for the bulletin board in its new location is Erik Wysocan's, The Sleep of Reason / The Dream of Reason / El Sueno De La Razon.
Friday, November 21, 2008 - Monday, December 1, 2008
CCS Bard is pleased to announce an event celebrating the launch of the new student-run online magazine, Six-Years (www.six-years.com). The event will consist of live commentary on video documentation of historic performances by K8 Hardy, Tom Eccles, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, and Nato Thompson. An audio recording of the event will then be presented as an exhibition running November 21 - December 1, as a meditation on 'criticality' parallel to the online magazine. EVENT BEGINS AT 7PM. View announcement View e-card
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Sunday, May 25, 2008
Three exhibitions curated by CCS Bard graduate students:
Modernism: On and Off the Grid, including work by Martin Beck, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Dorit Margreiter, and Superstudio, curated by Niko Vicario;
Act Out, including work by
Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Sturtevant, and Hannah Wilke, curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch;
Degrees North: Six Artists and the Icelandic Landscape including work by
Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson, curated by Nicole Pollentier;
Opening reception: Sunday, May 11, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Sunday, April 27, 2008
Three exhibitions curated by CCS Bard graduate students:
Another Time, including work by Chen Chieh-jen, Tacita Dean, and Peter Hutton, curated by Milena Hoegsberg;
(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird, including work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Barry Le Va, and Charles Ray, curated by Daniel Byers; and
Under the Influence, including work by John Baldessari, Jen DeNike, Nancy Holt, Tim Jackson, Joan Jonas, David Jones, Jill Magid, Rachel Mason, Michele O’Marah, and Robert Smithson, curated by Anat Ebgi.
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 13, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Sunday, March 30, 2008
Three exhibitions curated by CCS Bard graduate students:
Countdown including work by
Urs Fischer, Jamie Isenstein, Kris Martin, Roman Signer, Jordan Wolfson, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis;
Grounds for Progress including work by Gemma Pardo, Aura Rosenberg, Lisa Sanditz, curated by Lauren Wolk;
Recasting Site: Robert de Saint Phalle, Roe Ethridge, Mary Lucier, and Robert Smithson
Curated by Terri C. Smith
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 16, 1-4pm. Free and open to the public.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Sunday, May 25, 2008 Second Thoughts presents exhibition as revision. Curated by first year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Second Thoughts is a direct response to Matthew Higgs’ Exhibitionism (October 20, 2007 – February 3, 2008), a series of autonomous and highly idiosyncratic exhibitions curated for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art. By engaging amplification, erasure, extension, and redress, Second Thoughts seeks to alter the strategies utilized by Higgs in Exhibitionism to progressively revise the entire exhibition. An intervention by French artist Marcelline Delbecq, consisting of a newly commissioned work responding to the Hessel Collection, will be introduced on April 13th. Opening receptions
Sunday, March 16, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.;
Sunday, April 13, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.;
Sunday, May 11, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 13, 2007 - Sunday, May 27, 2007
Five exhibitions and projects featuring work by Ricci Albenda, Lara Alcántara, María Elena Alvarado, Robert Bryn, Peter Campus, Roni Horn, Ragnar Kjartansson, Enrique La Cruz, Diego Lama, Karl Larsson, Glenn Ligon, Jorge Macchi, Joanna Malinowska, José Miyashiro, Ernesto Neto, David Rokeby, Peter Rose, Lee Walton and James Walsh. Opening reception on Sunday, May 13, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Gallery and Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 15, 2007 - Sunday, April 29, 2007
Three exhibitions featuring work by Allora & Calzadilla, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, David Claerbout, Nancy Davenport, Leon Golub, Adad Hannah, Kristan Horton, Bernard Khoury, Miguel Luciano, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Sarah Oppenheimer, Rosana Paulino, Sean Snyder, and Spatial Information Design Lab. Opening reception on Sunday, April 15, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Gallery and Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 11, 2007 - Sunday, March 25, 2007
Four exhibitions curated by second-year students in the graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Opening reception on Sunday, March 11, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Gallery and Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 27, 2007 - Saturday, March 24, 2007
Artists explore a city in flux, where populations, economies, and architecture are constantly being re-made at the intersection between public and private, the historical and the imaginary. Organized by first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Lost & Found City is a site specific installation at three locations in New York City. Opening reception: Storefront for Art and Architecture, Saturday, March 3, 6 - 8pm.
Sunday, May 7, 2006 - Sunday, May 21, 2006
A series of exhibitions curated by graduate students during their second-year of study in curatorial studies and contemporary culture. The exhibitions, which focus on diverse concepts and themes represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. The exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree. May exhibitions inlclude:
IAMNOWHERE, curated by Erica Hope Fisher;
Draw a straight line and follow it, curated by Anna Gray; and
Sunday, April 9, 2006 - Sunday, April 23, 2006
A series of exhibitions curated by graduate students during their second-year of study in curatorial studies and contemporary culture. The exhibitions, which focus on diverse concepts and themes represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. The exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree.
April exhibitions include:
You don't live here anymore, curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason;
Sunday, March 12, 2006 - Sunday, March 26, 2006
A series of exhibitions curated by graduate students during their second-year of study in curatorial studies and contemporary culture. The exhibitions, which focus on diverse concepts and themes represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. The exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree. March exhibitions include
Friday, February 24, 2006 - Saturday, March 18, 2006
As a survey about itinerancy and the possibilities of museums today, first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies have organized this project, which takes the form of a publication-as-exhibition and a series of informal roundtable discussions. Click here to download a PDF of the exhibition catalogue Click here to view images from the exhibition
Saturday, May 7, 2005 - Saturday, June 4, 2005
Carlos Bunga, Heather Rowe, and Michael Sailstorfer investigate the architectural structure of the house through processes of construction and destruction. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Cecilia Alemani and Simone Subal
Saturday, May 7, 2005 - Saturday, June 4, 2005
Projected works by Beatriz Viana Felgueiras, Cagla Hadimioglu, Hassan Khan, and Moataz Nasr situate the individual within an architecture to upset systems of place and belonging. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Yasmeen Siddiqui
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - Sunday, May 8, 2005
Video works by Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, Esra Ersen, Emily Jacir, and Sislej Xhafa engage with recent debates about universal and particular experiences of the human condition. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Pelin Uran
Location:
Yellow Bird Gallery, 19 Front Street, Newburgh, N.Y.
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - Sunday, May 8, 2005
Film, video, and photographs by Marina Abramovic and Ulay, John Coplans, Stefania Galegati, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Pietro Ruffo capture the passage of time in static moments. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Camilla Pignatti Morano
Location:
Yellow Bird Gallery, 19 Front Street, Newburgh, N.Y.
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - Sunday, May 8, 2005
Kisoo Kwon, Eun-ae Seo, and Seung-Ho Yoo draw from traditional Korean painting to create contemporary drawing, painting, installation, and animation. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Jyeong-Yeon Kim
Location:
Yellow Bird Gallery, 19 Front Street, Newburgh, N.Y.
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - Sunday, May 8, 2005
Works by Allan McCollum and Dario Robleto use fossils and artifacts to provoke memory and question the production of history. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Paula Bigboy
Location:
Yellow Bird Gallery, 19 Front Street, Newburgh, N.Y.
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - Sunday, April 24, 2005
Photographs of the war in Iraq by Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, and Antonin Kratochvil evidence the changing status of photojournalism and its accelerated entry into art contexts. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by Judy Ditner
Location:
Center for Photography, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, N.Y.
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Saturday, June 4, 2005
The Center for Curatorial Studies will sponsor 12 exhibitions curated by M.A. candidates in curatorial studies. The exhibitions, developed around a variety of concepts and themes,will be presented at the Center for Curatorial Studies from March 6 - 20, 2005; the Center for Photography, Woodstock from April 9 - 24, 2005; Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh from April 9 - May 8, 2005 and at Artists Space, New York City May 7 - June 4, 2005.
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Sunday, March 20, 2005
Vision shifts between seeing and comprehending in light and slide projections by Giovanni Anselmo, Iñaki Bonillas, Ceal Floyer, Sherrie Levine, Michael Snow, and James Turrell.
Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Jenny Moore
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Sunday, March 20, 2005
Roni Horn, Spencer Finch, and Kerry Tribe combine image with language to reveal blind spots and uncertainties in our sight and memory.
Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Jen Mergel
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Sunday, March 20, 2005
Works by Nayland Blake, Adrian Piper, and Kara Walker use personal narrative to explore miscegenation and the construction of race.
Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Nicole Caruth
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Sunday, March 20, 2005
Films engaging global tourism, military stratgey, and the politics of vision. Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Risa Puleo
Sunday, March 6, 2005 - Sunday, March 20, 2005
Changing perspectives toward violence against women in feminist performance from the early 1970s to the present.
Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Curated by: Erin Salazar
Sunday, February 6, 2005 - Sunday, February 20, 2005
Two exhibitions curated by first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies. Opening February 6, 2005, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. and running through February 20th. CCS Museum Gallery hours Wednesday - Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 9, 2004 - Sunday, May 23, 2004
Four exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. CCS Museum. Opening reception on Sunday, May 9, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 4, 2004 - Sunday, April 18, 2004
Exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. CCS Museum. Opening reception on Sunday, April 4, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2004 - Sunday, March 21, 2004
Exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. CCS Museum. Opening reception on Sunday, March 7, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 1, 2004 - Sunday, February 15, 2004
Three exhibitions-Assemblance; If it's not love, it's the bomb; and s u s p e n d e d s t a t e-of works drawn from the permanent collection of the Center for Curatorial Studies, curated by first-year graduate students. CCS Museum. Opening reception on Sunday, February 1, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. 845-758-7598 or e-mail ccs@bard.edu.
Sunday, May 11, 2003 - Sunday, May 25, 2003
Exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Opening reception, Sunday, May 11, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, 2003 - Sunday, April 27, 2003
Exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. CCS Museum. Opening reception, Sunday, April 13, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 16, 2003 - Sunday, March 30, 2003
Exhibitions curated by second-year students in the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Opening reception, Sunday, March 16, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 2, 2003 - Sunday, February 23, 2003
Three exhibitions of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies, curated by first-year students in the Center's graduate program. Opening reception on February 2, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 12, 2002 - Sunday, May 26, 2002 Slip, curated by Elizabeth Fisher; High Performance: The First Five Years, 1978?1982, curated by Jenni Sorkin; Any where, curated by David Chan; Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin. Opening reception, Sunday, May 12, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday. Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 12, 2002 - Sunday, May 26, 2002 Slip, curated by Elizabeth Fisher; High Performance: The First Five Years, 1978?1982, curated by Jenni Sorkin; Any where, curated by David Chan; Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin. Opening reception, Sunday, May 12, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Museum Hours: Wednesday through Sunday. Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 14, 2002 - Sunday, April 28, 2002 Present Tense, curated by Jill Winder; Hard to Read, curatoed Liu Feng, Liminal Spaces, curated by Cassandra Coblentz; Room with a View, curator Amada Cruz, Director of the CCS Museum. Opening reception, Sunday, April 14, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Museum open: Wednesday through Sunday. Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 17, 2002 - Sunday, March 31, 2002 The Inside Is the Outside, curated by Luiza Interlenghi; Landscaping Ahead, curated by Kelly Lindner; Minor Alterations, curated by Kristen Evangelista; Room with a View, curated by Amada Cruz, Director of the CCS Museum. Opening Reception on Sunday, March 17, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Museum open Wednesday-Sunday. Time: 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 17, 2002 - Sunday, March 31, 2002 The Inside Is the Outside, curated by Luiza Interlenghi; Landscaping Ahead, curated by Kelly Lindner; Minor Alterations, curated by Kristen Evangelista; Room with a View, curated by Amada Cruz, Director of the CCS Museum. Opening Reception on Sunday, March 17, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Museum open Wednesday-Sunday. Time: 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 17, 2002 - Sunday, February 24, 2002
Three exhibitions of works from the permanent collection of the Center for Curatorial Studies, curated by first-year students in the Center's graduate program. Opening reception Sunday, February 17, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Museum open: Wednesday to Sunday. Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 17, 2002 - Sunday, February 24, 2002
Three exhibitions of works from the permanent collection of the Center for Curatorial Studies, curated by first-year students in the Center's graduate program. Opening reception Sunday, February 17, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Museum open: Wednesday to Sunday. Time: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 13, 2001 - Sunday, May 27, 2001
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will present the final group of this spring's thesis exhibitions. Graduate students Jennifer L. Gray, Olga Kopenkina, Linda J. Park, and Kim Simon have organized these exhibitions.
Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, investigates performances of three generations of artists. Photographs and videos by Vanessa Beecroft, Patty Chang, Valie Export, Nikki S. Lee, and Cindy Sherman comment on identity, objectification, and vulnerability through a feminist lens. By using their own bodies or surrogates for their bodies as the focal point of their work, the artists place themselves in a position that at once empowers and exposes them.
Beyond the Sentence, curated by Olga Kopenkina, explores the notion of "historical truth" in recollection, commemoration, and archive. Employing found photographs, video footage, and footage of feature films as mnemonic devices, artists Marcel Odenbach, Igor Savchenko, Maxim Tyminko, and Vadim Zakharov question the connections between national and personal fates as these are imprinted in local historical memory and universal social history.
Just what is it that makes trailer homes so different, so appealing?, curated by Linda J. Park, maps out various ways in which contemporary artists have approached the changeable structure of the mobile dwelling unit. The nomadic nature of the trailer home is traced in artists'drawings, prints, photographs, and video.This exhibition, which presents works by Vito Acconci, Michael Asher, Atelier van Lieshout, Terry Maker & Chris Rogers, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Andrea Zittel, explores a range of issues from utopian notions of freedom to the sociopolitical critique of design and art in the everyday.
In Person, curated by Kim Simon, presents recent work by Jonathan Horowitz that examines the relationship between contemporary culture and self-representation. The artist's introspective video and sound installations form both celebratory and critical connections between notions of the self, representation, and communication.
Sunday, April 8, 2001 - Sunday, April 22, 2001
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will present the second of this spring's series of thesis exhibitions. Graduate students Carina Plath, Dermis P. Le?, and Allison Peters are the curators of the exhibitions.
image a new, curated by Carina Plath, reconsiders the situation of the image in the arts today. The emergence of digital technology has reopened a discussion of the image as a medium of representation. The artists in the exhibition-Ola Billgren, Arthur Jafa, Platino, Blake Rayne and J?g Sasse-working in painting, photography, and video, with motifs and scenes drawn from an everyday environment, insist on the continued relevance of the visual image as an integral part of our reality.
Re:locations, curated by Dermis P. Le?, presents works by Manuel Acevedo, Andrea Geyer, and Jana Leo that translate domestic environments into the gallery. Analyzing behavioral patterns or reinterpreting existing spaces, the works investigate the ways in which social class, identity, and gender appear in architecture and interior design.
In FLESH & FLUID, curated by Allison Peters, ambiguously organic forms seduce and engage the viewer. Photographs by Aziz + Cucher, sculptures by Cathy de Monchaux and Valeska Soares, and an installation by Charo Garaigorta generate a surreal realm where the human body is evoked in fragments that never become entirely identifiable.
Sunday, March 11, 2001 - Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will present the first of this spring's series of thesis exhibitions. Graduate students Ilaria Bonacossa, Cecilia Brunson, and Gabriela Rangel are the curators of the exhibitions. CCS graduate students organize these exhibitions as part of their final master's degree projects. In addition to the thesis exhibitions, Amada Cruz, director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, has curated an exhibition of works from the Center's permanent collection. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. The exhibitions and reception are free and open to the public.
Leggerezza, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, features works in mixed media by Italian artists Stefano Arienti, Massimo Kaufmann, Eva Marisaldi, Letizia Cariello, Stefania Galegati, and Sarah Ciraci. The artists draw upon everyday objects and extraordinary events to create light and impalpable images. Leggerezza highlights an art scene that, having remained insular for many years, has now found a new language characterized by both humor and reverence.
False Start, curated by Cecilia Brunson, offers unconventional representations of sporting activities in works by Andrea Bowers, Josef Dabernig, Sharon Lockhart, Paul Pfeiffer, Cristi? Silva, Javier Tellez, and Uri Tzaig. These works expose the alienation that is a part of mass spectacle and reveal the incompleteness of conventional renderings of sports events, which emphasizes group membership and integration. A dialectic of affiliation and difference, feeling part of the crowd yet alone, is interlaced throughout the works in False Start.
Espejos Enterrados | Buried Mirrors, curated by Gabriela Rangel, focuses on telenovelas, Latin American soap operas. These shows are the subject of works by a group of artists from Mexico and Venezuela, two countries that dominate the television industry in Latin America. The videos and photographs of Luis Molina-Pantin, Daniela Lovera and Juan Nascimento,Yoshua Okon, and Teresa Serrano restage or deconstruct the gender, class, race, and national stereotypes implicit in this regional form of melodrama. Espejos Enterrados examines popular culture through contemporary art practices and explores how subjectivities are formed and informed by televisual imagery. The Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros Foundation has provided support for this exhibition.
Sunday, March 19, 2000 - Sunday, April 16, 2000
Featuring:
Looking Back, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian
Paintings and photographs by Jeannette Christensen, Julie Heffernan, Matts Leiderstam, and Cindy Sherman paraphrase old master paintings to investigate stereotypes and assumptions in portraiture.
Unraveling Desire, curated by Gregory Sandoval
The works explore the interests that artists Richard Hawkins and Karen Kilimnik have in popular icons. Producing seemingly personal "takes" on the famous and beautiful, the artists suggest that their individual fascination is not unlike the public's collective understanding of media subjects.
Sightings, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak
Sculpture, photographs, and a video by Tom Burr, D-L Alvarez, Dean Sameshima, and Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset that reveals the specialized languages of the different locations where anonymous sex occurs and contemporary art is exhibited.
Superflex in company–economic potentials, curated by Teresa Williams
Visual presentations and public discussions continue an interdisciplinary collaboration between Superflex and Bard College students.
Sunday, February 13, 2000 - Sunday, February 27, 2000
Curated by the first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies. These works have never before been exhibited at CCS
"Never Exhibited" explores the idea of selection as the central and fundamental function of the curator. The exhibition reflects on the constructed nature of exhibition narratives and examines the selection criteria used by curators.