Curating the Curatorial – International Summit

Curating the Curatorial a International Summit

Saturday, November 2, 2013

In celebration of the new Masters in Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts

Organized by Steven Henry Madoff and Jovana Stokic

This international summit in celebration of the launch of the Masters in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts brings together more than twenty prominent curators, museum directors, artists, and theorists to discuss the state of the vastly expanded curatorial field today. Three “Position” keynote talks will be given, interspersed among three panels that will engage different aspects of the field: “Thinking Objects,” “Remapping the Collection,” and “Ecology of the Expanded Curatorial Field.”

The summit is free and open to the public.

Watch the live stream here on Nov 2, 9:45am

Panelists and speakers include:
Wassan Al-Khudairi, independent curator and former director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha • Daniel Birnbaum, director, Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Saskia Bos, dean, School of Art, The Cooper Union, New York •Ana Paula Cohen, independent curator, São Paulo • Bice Curiger, director, Van Gogh Foundation, Arles • Clémentine Deliss, director, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt • Okwui Enwezor, director, Haus der Kunst, Munich • Eva Franch i Gilabert, director, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York • Graham Harman, philosopher, American University in Cairo • Jens Hoffmann, deputy director, Jewish Museum, New York • Maria Lind, director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm • Steven Henry Madoff, chair, Masters in Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York • Chus Martinez, chief curator, El Museo del Barrio, New York •Josiah McElheny, artist, New York • Shamim M. Momin, director, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) • Gabi Ngcobo, director, Center for Historical Reenactments, and lecturer, The Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg • David A. Ross, Chair, MFA Art Practice, SVA, New York, and former director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • Jeffrey Schnapp, co-director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University • Simon Sheikh, director, MFA in Curating, Goldsmiths, London • Jovana Stokic, deputy chair, Masters in Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York • Mick Wilson, director, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg • Ari Wiseman, deputy director, Guggenheim Museum, New York

For further details please visit http://macp.sva.edu/summit/