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Jan Allen
Speaking through Silence
In its eloquent staging of silence, media artist Matt Rogalsky's application of gating software to broadcast audio streams offers a metaphor for curatorial practice.
Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot
Role Call: Pirates, Protagonists, and Purveyors
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Emelie Chhangur
Social Intervention and Pedagogical Practice as a Way of Curating
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Ingrid Chu
Coming to Terms: Curating and Possibilities for the 'New' Exhibition
The need is not so much in "replacing" curating as it is in reexamining where art is being practiced and how as a curator, to frame it responsibly as a result.
Paul Couillard
Thematic Review: Roll Call: (re)Placing Curating
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Paul Couillard
Curating as Art Making
In 20 years of activity as an artist, I have created work in a variety of media from performance to video to writing to installation. Simultaneously, I have worked as a curator, producer and director of artist-run centres.
Nina Czegledy
On Audience Response
Over the last decade, the increasingly blurring boundaries between artists, curators and audiences created an entirely new ecology where nearly every phase, every aspect, and every role embodied in art practice is radically changing.
François Dion
The independent curator: the art of posture and flexion
To begin, I would like to offer the following reaction to the formula chosen for the preparatory discussions to this exchange on the role of the arts curator.
Rosemary Donegan
Developing a discourse of curatorial practices
Over the last 25 years the curator, particularly the contemporary independent curator, has become a figure in the public imagination.
Tagny Duff
Performing the Curator: Staging unstable relations
The performance of the curator is an intricate one. The relations sustaining the performance of the curator are fraught with tensions, antagonisms and negotiations.
Xandra Eden
Curators are so over
The idea of the curator is controversial in contemporary art. There is disagreement on the definition of the term, as well as the authority afforded to them, with some artists and directors even going so far as to question whether the existence of a curator is justified.
Alissa Firth-Eagland
The Generative Curatorial Gesture
My major interest is in curating as a creative act in itself. Much like an artist uses their medium to reveal our world, I use the exhibition as a pedagogical tool to teach, to learn, and to inspire the new: new perspectives, new ways of understanding and new ways of seeing.
Marie Fraser
Exhibit as platform
Based on my practical experience and theoretical considerations, I intend to demonstrate that various types of current artistic intervention push back the boundaries of the art exhibit, thus profoundly altering the curator's role and engagement.
Corinna Ghaznavi
Thinking Through Curating
My background is European art history and I find myself working within the vein of contemporary history, theory, and discourse in order to contribute to history.
Michelle Jacques & Janna Graham
Aestheticizing Relationships or... Which comes first, the relational or the aesthetics?
Drawing from our experiences as a museum educator and museum curator who have worked together closely on several projects, we will examine the historical circumstances and current status of relational activity through the lens of...
Jeff Thomas & Anna Hudson
Bridging art and audience: Storytelling in the presence of historical Canadian art
"To know your history is to know your future" Not long ago, Jeff asked Anna why she doesn't tell stories. Jeff's an artist and a curator.
Ivan Jurakic
Navigating the Curator-as-Artist Divide
As the boundaries between artists, curators and critics increasingly collapse, curating as a practice stretches beyond the historical purview of custodian or 'gatekeeper', to take on a more generative function.
Anthony Kiendl
Curating and Television as a Step Towards a Future Project for Prime-Time Television
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Leanne L'Hirondelle
Untitled
Re-locating curating addresses many issues and challenges that cultural workers, both artists and curators have addressed through their practices.
Philip Monk
Discomforting Presentations
A curator talks of his discomfort...
Philip Monk
A Way of Curating
What would thinking through curating be that was not a thinking through to its end - or ends - as a "clear expression" of what its ends are?
Anne-Marie Ninacs
Towards more ethical curatorial practices
One of the most stubborn assumptions surrounding the work of the exhibit curator - at least from the audience's standpoint - is the question of objectivity, of the authority of his/her judgement.
Melanie O'Brian
Art Speaking: Towards an Understanding of the Language of Curating
If art is considered a system, strategy or activity of engagement, curating has become an increasingly integral part of the process.
Jenifer Papararo
Thematic Review: The Art of Stepping Aside
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Milena Placentile
By the time I decide what to call this paper, the world will be different
I view curating as something I do with and for others. It is in this spirit that I aim to create exhibitions and public programs that investigate the social aspects of cultural production in ways that encourage...
Ben Portis
Self-triangulation: Public positions guided by personal dialectics
Contemporary art curators cover tremendous ground in the name of investigation and representation (as is rightly expected of them), however the integrity of their explorations paradoxically demands...
Stuart Reid
Re:Public-Considering the Audience in Curatorial Practice
From the perspective of a Director/Curator working within a regional public gallery in Ontario, this paper, discusses the act of considering the audience, and what impact this process has on curatorial practice.
Clive Robertson
The Artist-Curator: Struggles Over What Matters And For Whom It Matters
The Artist-Curator: Struggles Over What Matters And For Whom It Matters is an illustrated presentation that offers a preview of past projects and an introduction to some critical reflections and...
Kitty Scott
No Great Exhibition
This paper originated in my response to an invitation from Terence Dick, the Head of Public Programs and Education at The Power Plant and Barbara Fischer, the Director/Curator at the Blackwood Gallery, the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Jason St. Laurent
10 Easy Steps to Reaching New Audiences
During a curatorial conference at the University of Toronto in 2003, Walid Raad coined a new expression for curatorial work: experience management.
Dermot Wilson
Ordinary Resistance Through Displacement: A Discussion of Intervention and Curatorial Practice
Since the first manifestations of "installation art", artists have experienced the "aura" of the institution: the carpeted, cavernous, hermetic spaces, the pristine urinals of our public art repositories.
Liz Wylie
Naming and defining the current issues for collections in Canadian public galleries
The overall title for this curatorial roundtable project of OAAG/ARCCO is Unspoken Assumptions. I believe that there are a cluster of unspoken assumptions around the area and activity of the...