Meeting with Curators: Presentation and Networking event @ ICA London
The Culture Capital Exchange in partnership with the ICA presents
Meeting with Curators: Presentation and Networking event
Time: 2pm-4.30pm followed by networking drinks
ICA Theatre, ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Price: Free, £30 no-show fee applicable
We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming Meeting with Curators event in partnership with the ICA.
Collaborations between academics and those working in contemporary arts fields are by no means new. They would also appear to be increasingly sought after by both sectors. On the one hand, the research community seems progressively interested in finding opportunities to connect with the contemporary arts landscape. This is at least in part due to the growth of agendas such as ‘impact’ and public engagement, as well as there being more institutional support for knowledge exchange activities.
At the same time, many contemporary arts organisations, regardless of scale or location, are exploring how they might better work with Higher Education to access research and academic input into exhibition and education programmes, as well as related areas such as publishing, archives and social media.
This event will present a range of perspectives from curators working in diverse contemporary arts contexts who are currently working with academia now or who are planning to do so in future. There will also be a short co-presented case-study from several of those involved in the ongoing Her Noise project and archive. This most recently manifested in the Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic three day programme at Tate this May. The presentations will be followed by a gallery tour and networking drinks.
Presenters will include: Anna Gritz (ICA), Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, MOSTYN), Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield), Prof Cathryn Lane (CRISAP, LCC) and Madeleine Keep (Tate Britain).
We hope you can join us. This event is free to TCCE members and to curators or cultural sector professionals. Booking is essential and a cancellation fee of £30 will be applied to those who have booked but don’t attend.
The Plowman’s Lunch @ Beacon Art Project, Friday 22 June 2012
Visibility and Invisibility: Audience, Artist and Curator
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Food, conversation and debate were shared with guest speakers Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales. The programme for the day was structured around the lunch with questions before and answers after, incorporating contributions from two artists previously commissioned by Beacon, Doug Fishbone and Kelly Large.
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator, editor and artist working across a variety of media such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. He directs Mostyn, Wales’ largest and leading contemporary art centre, co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media & art production unit (co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, 2010). He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, Visiting Lecturer in various European Universities among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster, HEAD Geneva and DAI Dutch Arts Institute, and Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
Penelope Curtis In 1988 Penelope Curtis joined the new Tate Gallery Liverpool as Exhibitions Curator. In 1994 she moved to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where as Curator, she was responsible for a programme of historical and contemporary sculpture exhibitions, collections building in sculpture and archive, and research activity including events, fellowships and publications. She has written widely on 20th-century British sculpture, on European art and architecture of the inter-war years, and on many contemporary sculptors including Thomas Schűtte, Gerard Byrne and Isa Genzken. She is author of Sculpture 1900-1945: After Rodin (OUP, 1999) and Patio and Pavilion: The place of sculpture in Modern Architecture (Ridinghouse, 2007) and has recently curated Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Penelope Curtis became Director of Tate Britain in April 2010.
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The Plowman’s Lunch aim is to develop and lead on new and fresh ways of thinking about curatorial and artistic practices. Practices that acknowledge the particularities of the rural contexts within which Beacon’s operates but at the same time also acknowledge their relevance to mainstream practices.
Each Plowman’s Lunch is ticketed with a maximum number of 35 attendees. The target audience are artists, academics, curators and other curious people in the East Midlands region and beyond. All participants will have the opportunity to contribute to, discuss and debate the theme of the Plowman’s Lunch. Each event is recorded and an edited transcript will be disseminated on Beacon’s website via podcasts and a pdf download.
More info here:
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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