ICI June events and talks, Martha Wilson, and French Fellow

Independent Curators International (ICI) greets summer with a busy month of June in New York and beyond. Join us at the Curatorial Hub for a conversation with Full Dollar on June 6, and a book launch for Mnemosyne Atlas on June 12. Then come and hear Alexie Glass-Kantor as part of the Curator's Perspective on June 19. In Wisconsin, a special dinner, performances, and events are taking place around ICI's Martha Wilson exhibition, opening June 7 at Inova in Milwaukee. And finally, we welcome Fanny Gonella, ICI's newest French Institute Fellow.

CURATORIAL HUB: FULL DOLLAR

Full Dollar: Contemporary Art and Phantasmagoric Partnerships

Don Pili, Clínica El Deforme, 2012,
part of The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art (2009-13).
Photography: Vicente Gaibor del Pino.

Full Dollar: Contemporary Art and Phantasmagoric Partnerships
Thursday, June 6, 6:30–8pm
ICI Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
FREE

X. Andrade, chairman-for-life of Full Dollar, presents a conversation on phantom entities in contemporary art practices with Filip Noterdaeme (the Homeless Museum, Brooklyn) and Ruben Bonet (Fundación Adopte a Un Escritor, Mexico City). The three will offer their take on institutional critique through their own organizations, and their use of text-based interventions: Full Dollar’s move from art to textual production and back, the Homeless Museum's current manifestation as a book, and Fundación Adopte a Un Escritor’s infamous Manifiesto Introducible. X. Andrade is the founder of Full Dollar, established in 2004, a company that takes an ethnographic look at art scenes and institutions, and the social life of objects, images, and ideas.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with FULL DOLLAR in the subject field.

BOOK LAUNCH: MNEMOSYNE ATLAS

Alexander Provan, The Nature of Things, 2012.
Digital image courtesy of the artist.

Mnemosyne Atlas Book Launch
Wednesday, June 12, 6:30–8pm
ICI Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
FREE

Artist Freya Powell presents Mnemosyne Atlas, an intimate archive and attempt at mapping a collective social memory of 2012. Seen through the contributions of 68 artists, curators, writers, social activists and others, the Atlas brings together individual memories, navigating them through moments of connection and disconnection to chart a year-long narrative that questions the possibility of collective memory.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with ATLAS in the subject field. For more information on Curatorial Hub events, please contact Misa Jeffereis at misa@curatorsintl.org or at 212.254.8200 ext.126.

CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE: ALEXIE GLASS-KANTOR

Alexie Glass-Kantor
Wednesday, June 19, 7–8:30pm
Tyler Rollins Fine Art
529 West 20th Street, 10W
New York, NY 10011
FREE

As part of our Curator's Perspective series—an itinerant public discussion series featuring international curators—Alexie Glass-Kantor (Director and Senior Curator of Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne) will present on The Independence Project. Developed in 2006, The Independence Project focuses on collaborations with art spaces across Asia. Curators collaborate on residencies, forums, publications, and exhibitions, which include artists participating in exchange projects, with partner institutions in Malaysia, Singapore, China, South Korea, and Indonesia.

This event is free and open to the public. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with ALEXIE GLASS-KANTOR . For more information on Curator's Perspective, contact Misa Jeffereis, Public Programs & Research Coordinator at misa@curatorsintl.org or at 212.254.8200 ext.126.

MARTHA WILSON AT INOVA

Martha Wilson, installation view, Pitzer Art Galleries, 2013.
Photo courtesy of ICI.

Martha Wilson
June 7–August 11, 2013
Institute of Visual Arts (Inova)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2155 North Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Opening Reception
Friday, June 7, 8pm
Artist Talk 7pm
FREE

Institute of Visual Arts (Inova)'s Director Sara Krajewski, (ICI collaborator and curator of Image Transfer) has worked on a new presentation of Martha Wilson directly with the artist, embracing Wilson's forty-year career through her complex body of works: conceptually-based performances, videos, photographs, and photo-text compositions. The Inova exhibition focuses on the artist’s experimental practices to examine past and current attitudes towards feminism, activism, and socially engaged art.

Related Event
The Personal is Political: Martha Wilson and MKE
June 8–July 14, 2013
Portrait Society Gallery
Third Ward
207 E. Buffalo Street, Fl. 5
Marshall Building
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Opening Reception and Live Performance
Saturday, June 8, 6–9pm

Special Dinner Event
Tuesday–Wednesday, June 11–12, 6:30–8:30pm

Parallel to the Inova Martha Wilson exhibition, the Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee, WI) presents the The Personal is Political: Martha Wilson and MKE. This exhibition brings together Wilson’s artworks alongside Milwaukee-based artists showing works inspired from the ICI publication, Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces. In addition, New York City-based food theorist and artist Ame Gilbert organized “A Delectable Evening of Imperfection with Martha Wilson,” a dinner inspired by the work and ideas of Martha Wilson.

For more information about the exhibition and opening reception, visit Inova's website, or contact Alaina Claire Feldman, Exhibitions Coordinator at alaina@curatorsintl.org or at 212.254.8200 ext. 127.

FELLOWSHIP: FANNY GONELLA

ICI, l’Insitut français in Paris, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York are pleased to announce that Fanny Gonella has been selected as the second ICI/French Institute Fellow. Gonella, a curator based in Bonn, Germany, will research the artistic legacy of Robert Morris, focusing on the critical discourse his work has generated around 1970s notions of queer identity, social constructs, and stereotypes. The fellowship program offers a French curator a new opportunity for international research and the development of professional networks. The program spans over a period of six months and includes two visits to the U.S., where the Fellow will use ICI as a home base for development. Details on upcoming related events, and further information on Gonella’s research will be available on ICI's Research section of our website.

For more information on ICI’s fellowship program, contact Misa Jeffereis, Public Programs & Research Coordinator at misa@curatorsintl.org or at 212.254.8200 ext.126.