SPRING EXHIBITION SERIES — CURATED BY MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES AT BARD COLLEGE’S CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES — CONTINUES IN APRIL AND MAY AT THE CENTER

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—This spring a series of exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, continues with two groups of exhibitions in April and May. These are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree. The museum is open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., on the Bard College campus. All the exhibitions and related programs are free and open to the public. Free transportation to and from New York City for the exhibition openings—April 9 and May 7—is available via a chartered bus. Reservations are necessary. The second in the series of three exhibitions is on view from Sunday, April 9, through Sunday, April 23. (The opening reception at the CCS Museum is from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 9.) Welcome to the limelight, curated by Natalie Woyzbun, includes works by Jessica Craig-Martin, Instant Coffee, Christian Jankowski, David Kramer, Liisa Lounila, and Tony Matelli that invite the viewer into spaces of entertainment and leisure; You don’t live here anymore, curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason, features works in which ideas of dwelling and building transform the site of art and its methods of construction; Uninvited (working with restrictions), curated by Kerryn Greenberg, considers how success can be realized in failure, and freedom found through restriction, in the performances of Steven Cohen and his partner, Elu; and In Other Words, curated by Mariangela Méndez Prencke, focuses on bilingual works that use collage and other visual devices to translate themselves into a foreign context. The third and final series of exhibitions will be on view from Sunday, May 7, through Sunday, May 21. (The opening reception at the CCS Museum is from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 7.) IAMNOWHERE, curated by Erica Hope Fisher, questions whether we are assertively “now here” or elusively “nowhere” amid multiple technological influences in which possibilities and illusions collide to complicate communication, navigation, and self-exploration; Draw a straight line and follow it, curated by Anna Gray, presents new works by seven artists, responding to instruction-based art from the 1960s and 1970s; and Hot Topic, curated by Amy Mackie, features recent works informed by feminist strategies by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Nicole Eisenman, Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy, LTTR, Ulrike Müller, Ridykeulous, Emily Roysdon, A. L. Steiner with Chicks on Speed, and Tracy + the Plastics. The graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College is the preeminent program of its kind in the United States, dedicated to training curators and critics of contemporary art. The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present-day urban arts institutions. With state-of-the-art galleries, an extensive library and curatorial archive, and access to the remarkable Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 works, students at the CCS have a unique opportunity to gain both an intellectual grounding and actual experience within a museum. The Center for Curatorial Studies was founded in 1990 by Marieluise Hessel and Richard Black. Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from SoHo in New York City for each exhibition opening. The bus returns to New York City after the opening. Reservations must be made in advance by calling the Center at 845-758-7598. Bus transportation is provided through the generosity of Audrey Irmas. These exhibitions were made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund, the Friends of the Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Center’s annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions. Additional support for the spring exhibitions has been provided by the Monique Beudert Fund. For further information, call the Center for Curatorial Studies at 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.bard.edu/ccs. # 2006 Thesis Exhibitions Series Two Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College April 9 through April 23 Welcome to the limelight Curator: Natalie Woyzbun Welcome to the limelight presents works by five artists and an artists’ collective that address the complexities related to spaces of entertainment and leisure. Working in photography, installation, audio, and video, Jessica Craig-Martin, Instant Coffee, Christian Jankowski, David Kramer, Liisa Lounila, and Tony Matelli invite the viewer to engage or witness various social scenes. These include an interactive karaoke piece, images of private gatherings, and the sounds of a distant party. You don’t live here anymore Curator: Montserrat Albores Gleason The exhibition reflects on the idea of dwelling, taking its point of departure from the paradox generated in the domestic space by the conception and first private exhibition of Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades.” The works in this exhibition are paradoxical mechanisms that operate from spaces and actions of inhabiting. They indicate another realm, one constructed through the cancellation of the familiar act. The exhibition presents works by Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, Mierle Laderman Ukele, Tonico Lemos Auad, Santiago Sierra, and Elin Wikström. The exhibition does not aim to treat history linearly; rather, it attempts to place relational lines among these artistic methodologies. Uninvited (working with restrictions) Curator: Kerryn Greenberg For almost a decade, Steven Cohen and his partner, Elu, have taken their performances to unexpected places—a rugby match, a bridal fair, a rural village, a busy street, a squatter camp, a dog show—challenging assumptions, prejudice, and complicity at every turn, somersault, and pirouette. This exhibition considers how success can be realized in failure and freedom found through restriction. In Other Words Curator: Mariangela Méndez Prencke In Other Words considers bilingual artworks by Francois Bucher, Antonio Caro, Adriana Duque, Artemio Narro, Lucas Ospina, Catalina Rodriguez, Miguel Angel Rojas, and Bruce Yonemoto. These works involve exercises of translation that emphasize the moment of reading; a moment in which the viewer recognizes the transformation that these works undergo when they are seen or read from specific sociocultural contexts. This exhibition is an invitation to read between the lines—to suspect what has been narrated and translated by the practices and institutions that create reality, politics, or history, allowing us to see in fiction the truth, and also what is hidden. ***** 2006 Thesis Exhibitions Series Three Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College May 7 through May 21 IAMNOWHERE Curator: Erica Hope Fisher IAMNOWHERE includes works by four artists—Peggy Ahwesh, Kristin Lucas, Paul Pfeiffer, and Daniel Pflumm—whose practices involve the construction of mediated worlds in which the once-familiar has been subverted by technological interference, editing, and manipulation. Through video, new media and audio, the artists explore the tension between access and denial, utopia and catastrophe, enlightenment and failure. IAMNOWHERE asserts that our relationship to technological influence is ambiguous at best, and is constantly marked by moments in which the collision of possibilities and illusions complicates communication, navigation, and self-exploration. Draw a straight line and follow it Curator: Anna Gray A select group of contemporary artists has made new works in response to Fluxus and Conceptual artworks from the 1960s and early 1970s. These works involve language as a form of instruction, which rely on the audience/viewer as their producer, physically and/or mentally. Artists included in the exhibition are La Monte Young, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Eduardo Costa, Peter Coffin, Martin Creed, Erwin Wurm, Jonathan Monk, Harrell Fletcher, Adam Pendleton, and Stefan Burggemann. Hot Topic Curator: Amy Mackie Hot Topic is organized around two New York-based collectives—LTTR and Ridykeulous—devoted to the concerns of a multifaceted community interested in queer and feminist politics. Publications by the collectives are presented in the exhibition along with works in a diverse range of media by artists—Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Nicole Eisenman, Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy, Ulrike Müller, Emily Roysdon, and A. L. Steiner—who participate in this community. Hot Topic wishes to reveal the boundless potential for artmaking and writing emerging from a queer and feminist community and to share it with a larger public. Related Programs: May 8, Monday Performance/Quilting Session Ginger Brooks Takahashi, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail. Center for Curatorial Studies, 4:00 p.m. May 8, Monday Performance K8 Hardy, Beautiful Radiating Energy, SMOG Student Space, 9:00 p.m. May 9, Tuesday Workshop/Presentation Artists from the collective LTTR will talk about past and future projects. Center for Curatorial Studies, 4:00 p.m. # # # (3/16/06)

This event was last updated on 10-19-2006

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