Curating as...
The Curatorial Design Research Lab anchors its community of practice with regular meetings that act as the Lab’s hub, offering a critical sounding board for projects, curatorially-related courses, and potential collaborations within and beyond the Lab. CDRL members identified four thematic, structuring threads that can be distilled through our projects and practices. We have used these threads as an organizing tool for our website’s content, and to invite ongoing exchange.
Highlights
Glenn Ligon, FOR COMRADES AND LOVERS, 2015, Permanent Site Specific Commission, The New School University Center, entrance.
“A Working Model of the World” Curatorial Walk-through
Themes:
research and dialogue
3rd Annual CDRL Curatorial Slam! 4/21/17, 6:30-9PM
Themes:
research and dialogue
2nd Annual Curatorial Slam! 4/22/16, 4–7pm
Themes:
research and dialogue
The Cardew Object: Exhibition in the Skybridge Art & Sound Space
Themes:
pedagogy
Anti-Illusion: Procedures/ Materials
Themes:
research and dialogue
Still Working? – Skybridge Art Exhibit
Themes:
research and dialogue
Authority Figures
Themes:
research and dialogue
Looking Back at Black Male
Themes:
political action
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
Themes:
political action
Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy
Themes:
political action
“From a student point of view I’m really interested in the ways graduates from other departments could exchange critically with each other…the curatorial bracket is a really fertile space to do that.”Fernando do Campo
Themes:
pedagogy
Art, Environment, Action!
Themes:
research and dialogue
“Within an institution that prides itself on a certain academic freedom, how are disagreements manifested? How does an institution deal with contestation and dissent? How are differences of viewpoint voiced and more importantly, heard? How do we actually think about dissensus in an educational institution?” Radhika Subramaniam
Themes:
political action
MASTERPIECES OF EVERYDAY NEW YORK: OBJECTS AS STORY
Themes:
research and dialogue
The New School History Project
Themes:
pedagogy, research and dialogue
“The collaborations across the New School’s divisions don’t happen as much as they could or should…I was interested in reaching out to all kinds of different programs…and so this desire or wish or curiosity to overcome the silo nature of the divisions and to reach out to other divisions more proactively.”Carin Kuoni
Themes:
research and dialogue
Offense and Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging
Themes:
pedagogy, political action
Voices of Crisis
Themes:
research and dialogue
“The dissent we were looking at in our “Offense + Dissent” exhibition was a way to corral this other past that a lot of us want to find ourselves connected to — a past of the New School that was particularly politically active. What does it mean to dissent now, and how do we open that question through looking at the past? As a curatorial project, there’s a temporality to it all. So how do we embrace and use the temporality of an exhibit to push questions and answers in different ways?”Julia Foulkes
Themes:
research and dialogue
ALL OVER THE PLACE: PARSONS POSTERS FROM THE KELLEN DESIGN ARCHIVES
Themes:
research and dialogue, social practice
THEASTER GATES: A WAY OF WORKING
Themes:
political action, social practice
The Sue Coe Printmaking Residency
Themes:
pedagogy, research and dialogue
“Sometimes getting local residents involved in the co-production of a project (e.g., by leading public workshops, crafting material aspects of a work, conducting multidisciplinary research, envisioning strategies for the project’s focus to link to external groups or political actions, etc), makes engagement more immediate and meaningful for the local audience, especially if they have had a voice in determining the project’s overall shape or content. This does not have to be the domain of art/design experts alone.”Lydia Matthews
Themes:
political action
Open Society Foundation Georgia Project
Themes:
social practice
(re)collection
Themes:
research and dialogue
Inspiring Women
Themes:
pedagogy, political action, research and dialogue
“I try to orchestrate events which may or may not include exhibitions, but that bring multiple perspectives and multiple bodies of knowledge together to investigate a topic that is of common interest to all. I like to think of curating as a kind of a performative “expanded workshop” practice. For me, how artists and designers function in dialogue with people from other disciplines is key, so acknowledging the ethics involved in curating is core.”Lydia Matthews
Themes:
research and dialogue
Re-Imagining Orozco
Themes:
political action, social practice
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding
Themes:
political action
Ultra Red: Vogue-ology
Themes:
research and dialogue
Living Concrete / Carrot City
Themes:
pedagogy, political action, research and dialogue
#search under occupy
Themes:
political action, research and dialogue
Radical Shifts
Themes:
pedagogy, research and dialogue, social practice
“Carin Kuoni came into my class to take about curatorship in a way that was very helpful to me… Her definition was “taking care” … you’re basically responsible for somebody else’s creation and/or facilitating group dialogue and public dialogue and you need to do so with as little harm as possible.”Julia Foulkes
Themes:
pedagogy
“I see it [curating] as the ability to think temporally and spatially about initiating dialogue. Those are the processes that interest me—being able to convene a wide range of people, in the creative disciplines and their particular contribution. I’m rarely compelled by how one might conceive of a one-person show or an art historical moment or a trend in a discipline in and of itself. I would go to exhibitions that do that but I myself am not interested in doing that kind of work.”Radhika Subramaniam
Themes:
research and dialogue
Against All Odds Project: Ethics/ Aesthetics
Themes:
research and dialogue, social practice
