Re: [-empyre-] re- Death of the Curator?

2012-04-13 Thread Ana Valdés
One of the best curators I had the priviledge to work with is Sarat Maharaj, one of the most modest and low key curators I know. Born in South Africa of Indian ancestors Maharaj was the co-curator of Documenta XI. He is a researcher at Goldsmith and a professor in Lund, Sweden at the Art Academy.

Re: [-empyre-] re-Death of the Curator?

2012-04-13 Thread { brad brace }
you're all simply trying to sickeningly-spin various self-serving, sycophant aspects of oppressive institutional-art synonymns /:b Island 8.0 (sound files now online!): http://archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_8.0 Global Islands Project -- Global Islands Project -- ongoing

Re: [-empyre-] re-Death of the Curator?

2012-04-13 Thread Naeem Mohaiemen
There seems to be an undertow of distress; so let me reframe the question of artist-as-curator in a different way. It's healthy and sometimes desirable for artists to be in a room of their own (metaphorically) and then show/share work when it has marinated enough (in whatever measure: hours,

Re: [-empyre-] re- Death of the Curator?

2012-04-13 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
Simon, How uncanny that you mention Sam Weber since I introduced him for a talk a few hours ago and cited his Introduction to first volume of Glyph where he emphasizes the collaborative powwr of writing. It is, as you put it, the collaborative theatricality of curation that has fueled my