About this Project

Now online 31 Canadian visual art curators talk about curating.A collaborative web project produced by OAAG (Ontario Association of Art Galleries) and ARCCO (Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario) with the Knowledge Exchange.

With Thanks To

Generously supported by the Museums Assistance Program (MAP) and Canadian Heritage and Information Network (CHIN), Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Jan Allen, Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, Emelie Chhangur, Ingrid Chu, Nina Czegledy, François Dion, Rosemary Donegan, Tagny Duff, Xandra Eden, Alissa-Firth Eagland, Marie Fraser, Corinna Ghaznavi, Janna Graham, Anna Hudson, Michelle Jacques, Ivan Jurakic, Anthony Kiendl, Leanne L'Hirondelle, Philip Monk, Anne-Marie Ninacs, Melanie O'Brian, Jenifer Papararo, Milena Placentile, Ben Portis, Stuart Reid, Clive Robertson, Jason St-Laurent, Kitty Scott, Jeff Thomas, Dermot Wilson, Liz Wylie.

In 2004 and 2005, OAAG and ARCCO brought together visual art curators currently working in or with art museums, art galleries, and artist-run centres in Canada in overlapping modes–as art museum curators, as independents, as collaborators, as writers, and/or as visual artists–out of their working contexts into think tanks in Toronto and Montreal and symposia in Banff and Toronto to talk about curating.

In 2008, 30 talks by curators originally documented at the Banff and Toronto symposia have been produced for the web by OAAG and ARCCO with the permission and approval of the presenting curators. Where permission has been granted, the video of the talk and an essay or transcript of the curator's talk in the original language of presentation are available online, as well as the original simultaneous translation in the form of an audio file. New content by Canadian visual art curators will also be published through the web portal until October 2013. The first of these is a 2008 talk by Emelie Chhanger.

New Wikis of curating terms produced by Darryl Bank (English) and Barbara Gilbert (French) for CuratorsinContext.ca / Commissairesencontexte.ca are also available online.

Web Portal Production Credits

Producers
Demetra Christakos, Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Jewell Goodwyn, Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Ontario

Knowledge Exchange, CHIN
Louise Filiatrault, Danielle Boily, Wendy Thomas, Corey Timpson

Web Portal Design
Miles Storey, Rigent Inc.
Simone Abel, Lab403

OAAG Coordination
Demetra Christakos, Shay Gibson, Sarah Nasby, Darryl Bank, Nadia Kurd, Barbara Gilbert

Transcriptions
Daniel Cockburn, Gabriele Cole

Video Editing
Linda Corbett, eyeris

Audio Editing
Véronique Lehouck, Whole Earth Communications

Toronto and Banff Symposia Credits

Producers
Demetra Christakos, Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Jewell Goodwyn, Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Ontario

Symposia Coordination
Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot

Think Tank Coordination
Margot Berrill, Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot

Documentation
Erin Peck

Presenting Partners
Banff Centre, Art Gallery of York University, Mercer Union

Symposia Thematics
Paul Couillard, Jenifer Papararo, Sarah Quinton, Liz Wylie