First-Year Graduate Students at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies present
Re-Shuffle:
Notions of an Itinerant Museum
Art in General, Gallery 4
79 Walker St, New York City
February 24 - March 18, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24, 6-8 pm
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Davide Balula, Concrete Step
Memory Recorder, (2005)
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Are museums necessary? Is the museum still a relevant cultural institution? Do museums support or weaken contemporary artistic practices? May they be altered, replaced, reinvented? How might a museum behave as it transits from one context to the next, mutating in relation to a distinct situation? How might the very idea of transience affect the process of collecting? Or is the actuality of an itinerant museum inherently problematic, a contradiction in terms, a paradox waiting to happen?
Re-Shuffle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, a survey about the possibilities for the museums of today and the future, is presented by first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, and takes the form of a publication-as-exhibition to be held at Art in General’s Gallery 4 at 79 Walker Street, New York City. The program is on view from Friday, February 24, through Saturday, March 18. The opening reception is Friday, February 24, from 6 - 8 pm. Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 - 6 pm. All programs are free and open to the public.
The 12 first-year graduate students - Markús Thór Andrésson, Kirin Buckley, Max Hernández Calvo, Özkan Cangüven, Ruba Katrib, Florencia Malbrán, Kate McNamara, Laura Mott, Rebeca Noriega-Costas, Amy Owen, Chen Tamir, and Emily Zimmerman - posed questions to internationally renowned artists, critics, designers, and other cultural producers in a desire to explore the possibility of a museum that is mobile rather than stationary; flexible, spontaneous, and responsive, as opposed to didactic. The participants include Vito Acconci (New York), Dan Cameron (New York), Harrell Fletcher (Oregon), Pablo Helguera (New York), Gerardo Mosquera (Cuba), Libia Pérez and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson (Sweden), Pepón Osorio (Puerto Rico/New York), Regina Silveira (Brazil), and Laurel Sparks (Massachusetts), among others. The graduate students developed the publication-as-exhibition with Joshua Decter, an independent curator and CCS faculty member.
The exhibition is accompanied by a series of roundtable discussions and video screenings on Saturday, February 25; Saturday, March 4; and Saturday March 11. Click here to view the PDF catalogue of the show!
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