CCS Bard Presents “We are the (Epi) center…”

November 11, 2016 – December 22, 2016

Opening reception on Friday, November 11th from 6-8pm with a performance by Harold Offeh

Exhibiting artists include: Can Altay, David Blamey, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Harold Offeh, William McKeown, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Richard Venlet, Grace Weir, and many others.

“We are the (Epi) center…” is a two-month project at P! that brings together a range of international artists to rethink art’s relationship to its forms of exhibition and propose new models. Co-organized with Paul O’Neill and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), “We are the (Epi) center…” is both an evolving, cumulative exhibition and research project. It incorporates short-term displays, events, performances, artist-led discussions, and other public programs that are developed in collaboration with students from the graduate program at CCS Bard.

“We are the (Epi) center…” approaches curating as a series of actions that lead toward the emergence of an eventual exhibition-form.  Its first iteration on November 11th will comprise a selection of existing artworks, new commissions, and ongoing art projects in a display relating to ideas of the ‘exhibitionary’ and the ‘curatorial.’ For the months of November and December, P! will function as a conceptual outpost for We are the Center for Curatorial Studies – a multi-year project, also curated by Paul O’Neill, which opened at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College on October 15th and continues through December 16th.

(see http://weareccsbard.com)

We are the Center for Curatorial Studies is constructed around six main speculative ‘Departments’ entitled: The Department of Information (The Textual Core); The Department of Display (The Operational Core); The Department of Things (The Object Core); The Department of Images (The Visual Core); The Department of Waiting (The Attending Core); and The Department of Events (The Discursive Core). These Departments intersect with one another to make up the content and structure of a cumulative exhibition.

At P!, “We are the (Epi)center…” explores these six intersecting departments. It is an exhibition that gathers form through an accumulation of artworks and discrete spaces of display, juxtaposing subjects, things, images, information, structures, and discursive events. Over the course of the show, the space at P! will be transformed on a weekly basis, with no singular phase representing a “conclusive” exhibition.

Schedule of Planned Events (times to be announced)

November 11 – Performance of Covers by artist Harold Offeh

November 18 – Threshold, gallery intervention & event by artist Can Altay

November 19 – Film screening & artist talk with artist Grace Weir

December 2 – Domusplinth, gallery intervention & event by artist Richard Venlet

December 3 – Greatness Zine Launch with artist Sarah Pierce and CCS Bard students

December 9 – FEEL OK, sound bath by artist David Blamey

December 10 – Film screening & conversation by artist Jasmina Cibic

Exhibition identity and collateral materials designed by the London-based design practice Julia.

About the Center for Curatorial Studies

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) was founded in 1990 as an exhibition and research center for the study of late twentieth-century and contemporary art and culture and to explore experimental approaches to the presentation of these topics and their impact on our world. Since 1994, the Center for Curatorial Studies and its graduate program have provided one of the worlds most forward thinking teaching and learning environments for the research and practice of contemporary art and curatorship. Broadly interdisciplinary, CCS Bard encourages students, faculty, and researchers to question the critical and political dimension of art, its mediation and its social significance. CCS Bard cultivates innovative thinking, radical research and new ways to challenge our understanding of the social and civic values of the visual arts. CCS Bard provides an intensive educational program alongside its public events, exhibitions, and publications, which collectively explore the critical potential of the institutions and practices of exhibition-making. It is uniquely positioned within the larger Center’s tripartite resources, which include the internationally renowned CCS Bard Library and Archives and the Hessel Museum of Art, with its rich permanent collection.

Exhibitions at CCS Bard are made possible with support from the Marieluise Hessel Foundation, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies, the CCS Bard Arts Council, and the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends. Additional support was given by Culture Ireland.

General information on the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College can be found on its website at: www.bard.edu/ccs.

About P!

P! is a free-wheeling combination of project space, commercial gallery, Mom-and-Pop-Kunsthalle, and exhibition-making machine that proposes an experimental space of display in which the radical possibilities of disparate disciplines, historical periods, and modes of production rub shoulders. Founded in 2012 by designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy, P! has mounted over forty exhibitions and offsite projects from its headquarters on Broome Street. Over the course of its first five year program, which has included artists, designers, architects, composers, musicians, curators, writers, and more, the Chinatown storefront’s appearance, physical space, visual identity, and even name have changed periodically. After May 2017, P! will restart yet again, with an expanded mission focused on organizing exhibitions in the USA and abroad, developing publications with artists, and collaborating with institutions.

For more information, please visit: www.p-exclamation.com

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MEDIA CONTACTS:

BARD COLLEGE CONTACT:

Mark Primoff
Director of Communications
Tel: +1 845.758.7412
Email: [email protected]

CCS BARD CONTACT:
Ramona Rosenberg
Director of External Affairs
Tel: +1 (845) 758-7574
Email: [email protected]
 

This event was last updated on 10-31-2016

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