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Founded in 1987, the École du MAGASIN is the first curatorial training program in Europe. It was set up to provide a professional environment for a rigorous combination of research and practice. Since its inception, emphasis has been placed on the exhibition as an open platform in which different fields or strategies of representation can be drawn upon. The program has two objectives: Firstly, to complete the academic training of the participants by presenting them with theoretical and practical knowledge, and by introducing them to other cultures. Secondly, lead the participants into the professional world through direct contact with its actors.

Each session is formed by five to ten international participants who conceive and produce a collective curatorial project developed with the perspective of fulfilling its realization in a professional art venue, taking into consideration the mastering of the exhibition process and its artistic tools – both technical and conceptual. It lasts nine months, from October to June, and is divided into two stages: from the establishment of a framework and a collective working method, to the production of the final curatorial project. Both stages require their specific form of advisory and pedagogical frameworks that the École manages in relation with the project advisor, guest lecturers and field visits.

Working in a collective environment is an essential and specific dimension of the training offered by the École. Participants are invited to establish a framework of shared interests and a collective working method. This allows them to affirm a unique identity and to define specific issues that are raised during the program as a whole. Participants are encouraged to emancipate themselves from the reassuring norms in which they were taught, to experiment on a daily basis with their personal resources and to form a working team.

The program is open to candidates who have obtained the equivalent of a master’s degree or who attest to relevant professional experience. Admission to the École du MAGASIN is approved in two stages:
1. A pre-selection based on an application, which includes:
- a current resume
- a cover letter
- copies of diplomas and/or proofs of employment
- 3 letters of recommendation (from teachers or professionals in the field of art)
- a project proposal of no more than five A4 pages, which includes a curatorial statement, a presentation of the location of the project as well as the participating artists, and a realistic budget (please note that the proposal is for admission purposes only and is not intended for consideration during the session).
2- An interview with a jury in Grenoble. Pre-selected candidates will be informed by letter of the date of the interview (scheduled in June). Interviews via Internet can be arranged on a case-by-case basis.

Applications, along with a fee of 65 euros, must be sent no later than 30 April 2013 to:
École du MAGASIN
Site Bouchayer-Viallet
155 cours Berriat
38000 Grenoble
France

Download the application form:
www.ecoledumagasin.com
The École du MAGASIN is an independent training program. Course completion does not grant university credit or a diploma.
Session expenses are covered by the École. Participants are not required to pay tuition fees, but must assure their own living expenses.

Vessel launches two curatorial opportunities for a series of Curatorial Residencies and vessel’s International Curatorial Workshop.

The three-week Residency Program for curators will give the opportunity to investigate social practices. Specifically, curators will interact with artists, other curators and cultural operators based in the Apulia Region and exploring process-driven, multidisciplinary-focused methodology. The curators who will be selceted for the Residency Program will be directly involved in some of the regional projects that vessel already regularly contributes to. Contribution to these projects will be a central part of the residency in order to experience methods of cultural operation in the territory, but also to inspire a fruitful exchange of methods and strategies.

The International Curatorial Workshop, this year at its 3rd edition, will offer fifteen young curators the opportunity to work for three days (3rd to 5th June 2013) with curators and art practitioners of international reputation who have participated in projects focusing on the various forms, analysis and creation of social art practices. Vessel’s International Curatorial Workshop has always been strongly practice oriented and conceived as an organic structure aiming to articulate a consistent collective reflection on the contemporary role of the socially engaged art practices, in the current economic, cultural and political climate. Goals of ICW are also to set up working platforms which would enable participants to develop further curatorial projects and to encourage networking in order to promote international circulation of cultural projects.
ICW 2013 will be tutored by Fernando Garcia Dory, Carolina Rito, Viviana Checchia, Anna Santomauro, Francesco Scasciamacchia, Marco Petroni, Charles Esche together with other members of vessel’s commitee.

This year, both these programs will focus on vessel’s 2013 agenda which consists of participating in the two-year Materiality project through the creation of a web-based radio relating on interdisciplinary cultural practitioners coming from the Apulia and the surrounding Mediterranean area. The two programs will allow international curators to explore their practice through the lens of the local territory, especially the Rsidency Program will allow curators to convene in Bari and use the territory as a frame for curatorial issues, innovations and discussions. The goal of this program is to utilize a participative approach in order to create connections that inform context-specific social practice.

The call for applications for both vessel’s Residency Program and vessel’s International Curatorial Workshop will remain open until 21 April, 2013, with confirmations given before the end of April 2013.

For more information on the application guidelines please visit www.vesselartproject.org

About vessel
Vessel is a non-profit platform for the development of a critical discourse related to the current cultural, social, economic and political issues through the lens of contemporary art. We are interested in exploring socially engaged practices in relation to their context of emergence, to their geographies and psychogeographies, to their imbrication into fixed political ideologies, specifically in relation to Apulia and its surrounding areas such as the Mediterranean, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Additionally, we are eager to investigate the social imagination : how its concrete products can articulate strategies of critical resistance against the current dominant neo-liberal order. Our methodology strives to incorporate a broad range of disciplines, such as geography, political science, anthropology and sociology. Through this strategy, we aim to facilitate interaction and exchange between different subjects and create a multi-centered body of knowledge that can emphasize the limits and criticality of working unilaterally (or uniquely).

IZOLYATSIA seeks applicants for the Curator position for the Artist-in-Residence Program 2013/2014. This is a temporary position running from April 2013 until August 2014 with a possibility of extension for a longer-term contract.

One can read the full description of the Curator position for the Artist-in-Residence Program and our requirements to the candidate at the Call For Curator link.

To apply, please submit a CV including a selection of realised projects, motivation letter (no more than 1000 words) and a brief response to the proposed framework of the project (no more than 700 words) to info-at-izolyatsia.org by 26 April, 2013.

JOURNAL OF CURATORIAL STUDIES

Call for Proposals for a Special Thematic Issue:

CHINA: CURATING, EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAY CULTURE

The Journal of Curatorial Studies invites original research articles on the subject of curating, exhibitions and display culture in China. The rapid transformation of China’s market economy and urban environment has been paralleled by a burgeoning artistic and cultural sphere. Museums, biennials and alternative institutions have gained important footholds despite the spectre of state censorship. This special issue seeks articles that explore the dynamics and tensions of recent developments in Chinese exhibitionary practices.

Potential topics can include:
-- museum-building in China
-- Chinese biennials, triennials and art fairs
-- alternative curatorial methodologies and strategies in China
-- diasporic Chinese curators
-- Chinese artist-curators
-- curating social and digital media in China
-- the cultural politics of transnational Chinese exhibitions
-- case studies of watershed Chinese exhibitions
-- exhibitions and displays in Chinese popular culture
-- curatorial training in China
-- the influence of the art market, nationalism or state policies upon Chinese curators

Timeline:
May 1, 2013, Abstracts due (250 words)
January 1, 2014, Essays due (5-6,000 words)
Publication in issue 3(3), Fall 2014

Please send submissions and correspondence to:

Jennifer Fisher, Editor
York University
jefish-at-yorku.ca

Jim Drobnick, Editor
OCAD University
jim-at-displaycult.com

For more information about the Journal of Curatorial Studies, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=205/
http://www.facebook.com/JournalOfCuratorialStudies

Call for 7th Summer Seminars for Art Curators 2013
To Perform And To Curate: Between Two Practices of Constitution August 12-18th, 2013 Yerevan, Armenia

We are delighted to announce the next edition of the Seminars’ Program organised in collaboration with Eastern European Performing Arts Platform.

The curatorial practice in today’s understanding has evolved within the discipline of visual arts throughout the twentieth century. Thus far it has expanded from exhibition making practices to incorporate design of art educational initiatives and organization of archives and libraries. But curating has also expanded to previously unreached disciplinary domains to the extent that in 2000s one can speak of curating poetry, music and performing arts as a whole.

The roots of these expansions can be sought not simply in the ever-increasing pressure to synchronize creative industries with the development of information technologies which result in the demand for proliferation of administrative and managerial mediation between art and its audiences. One could claim that the expansion of curatorial work to include other spheres of creative practice is also due to a performativity embedded in curatorial work since the curator constantly deals with institutions, audiences and artists and mediates between them. Thus, the curator works within and (re)produces certain social and cultural constructs while often resisting those constructs and proposing new modes of relationality. Ultimately, curating is a constitutive practice that participates in the construction of artistic and receptive subjects. The curator neither fully identifies with the creative practice of the artist, nor with the publics. Instead, she occupies a discrete, but shifting place between the artist and the audience while performing the tasks of mediation, translation and representation with tools and methods that she implicitly or explicitly employs for the re-constitutions of subjectivities.

Given the growing examples of curating performative practices internationally, the 7th edition of the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in 2013 invites applicants to join the organizers in exploring the double notion of performativity, on the example of curatorial practices: curating as a constitutive practice that deals with desires, identities, subjectivities as well as curating performance art—a practice that has emerged and institutionalized in the sphere of multidisciplinary art only recently. We would like to investigate the intersections of the two modes of performativity and some of the possible emancipatory implications of such intersections. The Summer Seminars invites art theoreticians, artists and curators of various artistic disciplines to discuss different performative practices both inside and outside of the boundaries of art institutions. The program combines lectures with seminar discussions and performative events.

The Seminars are free of charge. The participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. To apply, please send your application that includes a CV, a statement of interest and a writing sample to Harutyun Alpeyan to the following address h-alpetyan@ica.am by April 30th, 2013.

The Franchise is an open call for group show proposals to be presented anywhere in the world except New York City. It is one of apexart's two curatorial open calls soliciting submissions for exhibitions that examine a specific idea or theme. Exhibitions can be about any topic that the curator/organizer finds compelling. Past shows have explored highway construction in Mexico City, climate in Los Angeles, manufacturing in Bangkok, Thailand, immigration in Stockholm, Sweden, and video DJs in Kampala, Uganda. Proposals do not have to be for the city where the curator is based, do not need to take place in traditional gallery settings, and venues for the show and artist lists do not need to be confirmed in advance of submitting an idea.

Applications will be accepted online only from April 4 - May 3, 2013.

More details and how to apply here: http://www.apexart.org/franchise.php

Call for applications: Emerging Curator
InterAccess' 13th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition
Deadline: March 15, 2013
Since its inception in 2001, InterAccess' annual Emerging Artist Exhibition has showcased new media work by post-secondary students and recent graduates. Curated and organized by a selected emerging curator, this initiative offers young artists and curators professional experience and exposure. Past exhibitions have been reviewed by The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star and The National Post. Former participating artists and curators have gone on to work and exhibit in such institutions as the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Xpace Gallery, The Banff Centre, Western Front, Trinity Square Video, Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Space Media Arts in London UK, FACT in Liverpool, and Transmediale in Berlin. This call for an emerging curator pertains to InterAccess' 13th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, which will open in July 2013.

Nature and Scope of Position:
The primary responsibility of the Curatorial Intern is the development of the annual Emerging Artist Exhibition. Reporting to the Programming Coordinator and supervised by the Executive Director, the Curatorial Intern is given the opportunity to learn about all aspects of programming within an artist-run, media arts centre environment. The Curatorial Internship typically requires up to 10 hours per week beginning in late March 2013. Extended hours will be required during the weeks leading up to the opening of the exhibition in July 2013. The Curatorial Internship is an ideal placement for an undergraduate or graduate student looking for hands-on experience of the curatorial process and, more generally, of the gallery environment. The internship is unsalaried but InterAccess offers a $500 honorarium upon the successful completion of the exhibition.

Primary duties and responsibilities:
Develop a coherent and relevant theme for the exhibition.
Select approximately five works from new media students or recent graduates within Canada.
Assist in drafting an exhibition budget.
Write a curatorial statement and extended essay.
Manage the installation of the exhibition in June/July 2013.
Assist with other duties at InterAccess, which may include organizing submissions for review, assisting with distribution of listings and other communications, assisting with installation and event set-up, assisting with InterAccess' workshop series, researching materials for upcoming exhibitions and events, general office assistance and sitting the gallery during the Emerging Artist Exhibition.
Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will be an undergraduate or graduate student in a related field of study. Recent graduates will also be considered.

Applicants must have:
Strong knowledge of contemporary media and visual art practices, especially within Canada.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Excellent computer skills (Mac environment).
Superior organizational ability.
The ability to deal with diverse publics.
The ability to work in a self-directed manner as well as in a team environment.
Submissions must include:

A current CV.
Cover letter detailing your experiences and interest in media arts (1 page)
2 references
Additional information:
Please send submissions in PDF format to info -at- interaccess.org.
InterAccess will only accept email applications for this position.

InterAccess is committed to the principles of Employment Equity and encourages applicants to self-identify.

Charlotte Street Foundation seeks applications from outstanding curators based in the United States wishing to be considered for the position of 2013-14 Charlotte Street Curator-in-Residence.

CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION CURATORIAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Seeking Applicants for the position of
2013-14 Charlotte Street Curator-In-Residence
Residency Term: Aug/Sept 2013-May/June 2014
la Esquina Gallery / Kansas City, Mo

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: APRIL 1, 2013

Full details and application information at:
http://www.charlottestreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Charlotte-Street-Curatorial-Residency-2013-14-Call-for-applications-2.12.13.pdf

DESCRIPTION
Charlotte Street Foundation seeks applications from outstanding curators based in the United States wishing to be considered for the position of 2013-14 Charlotte Street Curator-in-Residence.

The 2013-14 Curator-in-Residence will be awarded an approximately 10-month residency in Kansas City, including live space, stipend, and program budget. They will be responsible for conceiving, producing and presenting a series of original exhibitions and public programs (which may include talks, discussions, workshops, screenings, performances, events, etc) for Charlotte Street’s la Esquina gallery-a 2500 square foot “white box” located in the downtown area of Kansas City, Missouri-over the course of their term.

Through the Curator-in-Residence program, launched in 2012, Charlotte Street Foundation seeks to provide unique opportunities for exceptional emerging curators from elsewhere to immerse themselves in Kansas City and to actively engage with artists and the arts community of our region. The Curatorial Residency offers an annually selected Curator-in-Residence a high-profile public platform through which to explore, develop and test ideas, build relationships, and advance their curatorial practices and careers. The exhibitions and programs they develop are expected to be responsive to, and inclusive of, work by artists from the Kansas City region while exemplifying fresh perspectives and forging connections between area artists and artists from elsewhere.

Through this program, Charlotte Street Foundation seeks to enable promising, ambitious curators to actively, thoughtfully engage with Kansas City’s energetic, diverse, emergent arts community, and to further develop their curatorial voices and practices through direct, hands-on experience programming a highly regarded, well-established contemporary art space. The residencies are intended to encourage and support innovative, experimental, resourceful, community-responsive curatorial approaches that will introduce new ideas and foster critical discourse, creative production, and community participation in the Kansas City region.

Teaching partnerships with the Department of Art and University of Missouri-Kansas City and Kansas City Art Institute in connection with the program provide further opportunities for the annual Curator-in-Residence to connect with area art students while furthering their teaching experience.

This initiative extends Charlotte Street’s longstanding commitment to nurturing and supporting Kansas City’s artists and arts community and to fostering connections among and between artists and arts practitioners from Kansas City and elsewhere.

Full details and application information at:
http://www.charlottestreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Charlotte-Street-Curatorial-Residency-2013-14-Call-for-applications-2.12.13.pdf

The Contemporary Art Society, with The Hunterian, Glasgow, are inviting proposals from Curating, Museum Studies, Art History and Fine Art graduates across the UK who have been out of full time postgraduate education for no longer than two years.

Starting Point, now in its third year, will offer one curator the opportunity to select a small cluster of works from the collection to be installed as part of The Hunterian’s public programme in December 2013. The fellowship will run for twelve months (April13 – April14) and will include the additional opportunity to programme one public event for the museum and gain experience working with University of Glasgow sharing their experience and research through the project.

Founded in 1807, The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum and home to one of the largest collections outside the National Museums. Built on Dr William Hunter’s founding bequest, The Hunterian collections include scientific instruments used by James Watt, Joseph Lister and Lord Kelvin; outstanding Roman artefacts from the Antonine Wall; major natural and life sciences holdings; Hunter’s own extensive anatomical teaching collection; one of the world’s greatest numismatic collections; impressive ethnographic objects from Captain Cook’s Pacific voyages and a major art collection. The Hunterian is home to one of the most distinguished public art collections in Scotland including works by Rembrandt, Chardin, Stubbs with particular strengths in Whistler, Mackintosh and Scottish Art, especially the Glasgow Boys and Scottish Colourists.

We are keen to see proposals reflect the substantial and varied nature of the Hunterian’s collection, drawing on both contemporary and historic aspects, including artworks and artefacts. To find out more information about the collection click here. Applicants are selected on the basis of their first idea but we understand that the research period can have an impact on ‘first ideas’ so we are looking for potential and commitment.

The successful applicant will be supported by a modest budget covering travel costs, a publication and small fee.

Application Guidelines:
1. Applications should be no more than 500 words
2. Images should not exceed 2mb in total (images are not compulsory)
3. Application should be accompanied by a CV

Please note it is the responsibility of the applicant to make sure their application has been successfully received.

Application deadline: Friday 8th March 2013 (5pm)

For any further enquiries please email: robert -at- contemporaryartsociety.org

The Sandberg Instituut is pleased to announce the launch of the School of Missing Studies, a Master's program on Art and Learning, headed by Bik Van der Pol. Commencing in September 2013, the School of Missing Studies is now open for applications.

Application deadline: April 1, 2013

'As political and economic forces have come to shape the perception of culture, (art) education—regarded as a place of cultural production—has fallen behind. Education and learning need to reclaim space, as they are means to participate in politics, creating forms of political socialization.'
—Bik Van der Pol, course director

The School of Missing Studies takes its title from an ongoing project initiated by Bik Van der Pol in 2003, in collaboration with artists, thinkers, and architects. Since its initiation, The School of Missing Studies (SMS) has functioned as a nomadic, collaborative platform for experimental study and research of the public environment (public space, public time, public good) marked by, or currently undergoing, abrupt transition. In 2013, SMS will also operate as a one-time only, two-year Master's program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Following the observation that singular disciplines sometimes fail to discern or capture significant knowledge about uncommon or unprecedented situations, SMS brings together practitioners with diverse educational or professional backgrounds, who share a common ideal to make 'the missing' their mission and are interested in (artistic) practice as a modus operandi for imagination and productive speculation. Both art project and Master course, SMS proposes to find common and uncommon grounds for research and practice, from where acute political, social, educational and urban challenges can be articulated and further debated. The School of Missing Studies will run from September 2013 to July 2015.

SMS strongly believes in the intrinsic qualities of artistic practice as a means to disclose—make public—what is at stake in public space. As a platform for experimental learning, SMS considers education as a site of experience and encounter, a strategy for emancipation, and a potential response to public issues. While functioning as a collective space of discourse, analysis, and experimentation, SMS also turns to itself—the space of education—as a model and manifestation of 'publicness,' taking the paradoxical but necessary form of a 'closed' study program. Within the institutional setting of the art school, SMS proposes to formulate a notion of artistic practice that is articulated in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, and that could generate a political attitude towards the need of a more 'general' practice for effecting change and innovation in society, that takes the speculative, the undefined—'the missing'—into account. SMS welcomes students who believe in education as a public good and wish to act on that. As Henry Giroux points out: "Pedagogy not only provides important thoughtful and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to act effectively upon the societies in which they live."

SMS tutors and guests include Ayreen Anastas, Samira Ben Laloua, Bik Van der Pol, Maria Boletsi, Rene Gabri, Ernst van den Hemel, Maria Lind, Sarah Pierce, Praneet Soi, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, and others to be announced.

This pioneer program is open to a maximum of 12 students from varied backgrounds including, but not limited to, arts, design, architecture, and social and urban sciences.

Read more on our webpage at www.sandberg.nl
Inquiries and information: sms -at- sandberg.nl
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Bik Van der Pol
The artistic practice of Bik Van der Pol is collective, leaving the studio as a place of production and using the artistic workplace itself—practice—as a site for research and production. This conscious political and artistic choice has set the conditions for a (social) space generated by dialogue and collaboration where an encounter may happen that might result in a work of art. www.bikvanderpol.net

EXHIBITIONS INTERN - Special Summer 2013 Project

Department: Curatorial

MOCA Cleveland is seeking a Curatorial Intern for the summer of 2013. The selected candidate will work closely with MOCA Cleveland’s exhibitions team. The primary focus of the internship will be assisting with research, exhibition texts, multi-media materials, and programs for the summer 2013 exhibition, Realization is Better than Anticipation. This exhibition will investigate the models of thought that inform contemporary practices in Cleveland and the surrounding region, including artists connected to Pittsburgh, Detroit, and locations throughout Ohio. Focusing on acts of making, Realization is taken as equal parts practical (doing, constructing) and alchemical (magical, self-generating). Within the diverse range of practices are artists who have been working for 80 years and others who are at the beginning. Some are deceased, but their works call for reexamination. The exhibition aims to promote dialogue, and a digital catalog with commissioned essays will feature voices from throughout the region. MOCA Cleveland’s public spaces will also play a prominent role, with a series of events and happenings planned to expand the exhibition beyond the Museum’s walls. MOCA Cleveland opened at a new location in October 2012, the first building designed in the United States by Farshid Moussavi Architecture. This internship is an extraordinary opportunity to see inside a growing institution, and to make a significant contribution to critical dialogue in Cleveland and beyond.

The exhibition runs June 28–October 6, 2013, and is organized by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Programs and Associate Curator, and Rose Bouthillier, Assistant Curator. The internship is full time, May – August. The ideal candidate will be able to begin preliminary research tasks in March and April. This is an unpaid position, thus suited to a Curatorial Masters student with a required internship component to their degree. MOCA Cleveland will provide a stipend for lunch, and either a monthly transit pass or parking.

Tasks:

Archival, library, and online research for a large group exhibition
Coordinating writer’s contributions for a digital catalog
Coordinating, initiating, and assisting with on and off-site programs, including: artist talks, artist performances, musical performances, public events on MOCA Cleveland’s plaza
Assisting the curatorial team with studio visits, loans, exhibition installation, didactic materials, and artist video portraits

Qualifications and skills:

Thorough knowledge of contemporary art
The ability to think imaginatively & cohesively about a range of artists’ practices
Excellent research, writing, and editing skills
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Ability to work independently
Ability to work well with a curatorial team, as well as community partners
Enthusiasm and initiative in producing interpretive & programmatic elements

To apply, please forward the following materials to Rose Bouthillier, rbouthillier -at- mocacleveland.org by February 15, 2013. Please put “Realization” in the subject line.

Cover letter
CV with references
2 short writing samples, fewer than 800 words (i.e. beginning of an academic essay, exhibition review, or previous exhibition writing, such as a label or didactic).
Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by February 22, 2013. Interviews will take place the week of March 4-8. Please visit http://www.mocacleveland.org/ for more information.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS -- JOURNAL OF CURATORIAL STUDIES

The editors of the Journal of Curatorial Studies invite proposals for original research articles on the subject of curating, exhibitions and display culture. The journal also seeks reviews of recent exhibitions, books and conferences.

The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the increasing relevance of curating and exhibitions and their impact on institutions, audiences, aesthetics and display culture. Inviting perspectives from visual studies, art history, critical theory, cultural studies and other academic fields, the journal welcomes a diversity of disciplinary approaches on curating and exhibitions broadly defined. By catalyzing debate and serving as a venue for the emerging discipline of curatorial studies, this journal encourages the development of the theory, practice and history of curating, as well as the analysis of exhibitions and display culture in general.

Potential topics include:
-- critical case studies of curators and exhibitions
-- curatorial methodologies and transdisciplinary strategies
-- curatorial media (e.g., social, digital and virtual)
-- the cultural politics of display
-- exhibition typologies and histories
-- curatorial ethics and aesthetics
-- curating and globalization
-- para-curating: artworld rituals, openings, tours, prizes
-- curating collections, archives and commissions
-- display practices in popular and mass culture


SUBMISSION PROCESS:

The Journal of Curatorial Studies publishes three times a year and considers submissions on a continuing basis. Please send a 250-word abstract and a CV to the editors. Essays run 5-6000 words.

Please send submissions and correspondence to the Editors:

Jim Drobnick, OCAD University
jim at- displaycult.com

Jennifer Fisher, York University
jefish -at- yorku.ca


The first issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies is available free on-line:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=205/

Visit the journal on Facebook to keep informed about new developments:
http://www.facebook.com/JournalOfCuratorialStudies

KAPSUL is a platform and tool for curatorial work. KAPSUL allows you to collect and arrange images, text, and video into distinct units, as a way of organizing your thoughts and making your concepts more clear and coherent. With an embedded art-relevant search engine (compare your results to unvarnished Googling to see the difference), KAPSUL provides two key curatorial tools: a means to search for relevant things, and then a way to collect, organize, and share them (or keep them to yourself!). We've used KAPSUL ourselves on shows we are working on to organize research and foster dialogue within curatorial teams.

In collaboration with KAPSUL, we’re launching the Musée Imaginaire concours. The contest invites you to develop your own ‘kapsul’ for online exhibition, and a chance at a $1000 US prize. A jury of internationally recognized curators is eager to see who will best utilize the platform to create innovative curatorial propositions. Honorary mentions will be made for crowd favorites.

Read more about the contest here.
Deadline for submissions is January 29 2013, and participation in contest is free.
Sign up and get started here: Kapsul.org

The ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum is an institution for contemporary and critical art and architecture removed from any commercial activity. It is defined as a place for the presentation and production of new forms of artistic and cultural practise which refer to socio-political the memes. The ar/ge kunst is intended as a spot and meeting place for people interested in contemporary culture, and therefore focuses on its role as a forum for enabling an active exchange with contemporary art. A varied programme of exhibitions and other presentations make up its overall framework. This programme consists of up to five major exhibitions per year along with supporting events and presentations with international art critics, curators and experts.

The main interest of the institution is to help uncover innovative artistic positions reaching beyond short-term trends and to present international as well as regional artists who reveal an independent artistic approach to current and relevant issues regarding our society and environment. Within this definition, an experimental and interdisciplinary approach is of great interest. Moreover, the ar/ge kunst focuses on projects in the public space.

The ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum was founded in 1985 as a private association in Bozen (Bolzano), in order to promote contemporary art. The relevant persons involved in organizing the gallery's activities are the artistic director (the position to be filled), the chief executive and the board, which is made up of a president and five board members. The office and exhibition space of the ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum consist of approximately 150 m2 in size and are located in the historic centre of Bolzano.

From 1st April 2013 the post of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (3-year contract; part-time) will begin.

Duties of the Position:
- Program Planning: comprised of self-reliant pursuits as well as a program presentation in front of the entire board;
- Exhibition Planning: comprised of self-reliant curatorial activity as well as the management Supervision of ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum publications;
- Art Mediation: comprised of an experimental, innovative and discursive strategy for mediation;
- Press and Public Relations;
- Expansion of relevant contacts within the art world;
- Management and Organisation

Requirements:
- Relevant Background (regarding exhibition management and art theory/art history/art sciences or equivalent);
- Pertinent international experiences within the art world;
- Prior work experience in analogous structures;
- Language skills: German and/or Italian as well as English;
- Ability to pursue to independent and self-reliant activity; Self-confident manner;
- Organisation and communication skills as well as project and budget management skills;
- Forward-thinking and flexible attitude as well as ability to improvise as needed;

Personal Profile:
- Reliability, loyalty and integrity;
- Commitment, interest and persistence;
- Teamwork ability;

Please submit applications in German or Italian language before 31.01.2013 to Ms. Karin Welponer, president of the ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Via Museo 29, I-39100 Bozen (Bolzano). Email: karin -at- argekunst.it

The following documents should be included with the application:
- Detailed curriculum vitae with photo
- Reference report regarding prior work experience (e.g. self-reliantly implemented exhibitions and cultural projects)
- Cover letter regarding contemporary exhibition strategy (approx. 1-2 pages in A4 format)

We guarantee fully confidential treatment of all documents received.
The application documents will however not be returned.

Curating.info Fellowship at CCA Glasgow
Fellow: Emma Brasó

5 months in Glasgow



A bouncy Stonehenge, a Ping-Pong tournament in the gallery space, an artist's party at a cricket club, The State pub, Glasgow School of Arts MFA Degree Show, another Glaswegian Turner Prize nomination, a few bacon rolls, some difficulties with the local accent, and a lot of rain.



These few highlights from my residency experience in Glasgow, as the first Curating.info Fellow at CCA Glasgow, partially encapsulate what I could also describe as a fun and enriching experience. The city's dimension and solid artistic community make it an ideal place for this type of temporary placement, and CCA is a lively hub where apart from having a healthy vegan lunch (which I did on a good number of occasions), one can engage in conversations and activities about the future of the Gaelic language, ever-changing policies in arts funding, archives and contemporary art, or the obscure relation between the film Bagdad Café and Sarnath Banerjee's graphic novels.



As with any residence, it's up to oneself to make the most out of it. Frequent meetings with CCA's Director, Francis McKee, helped me to gradually understand the city's art stories, the myth of "The Glasgow Miracle", and the reality of an enclave that has the highest concentration of artists in the country after London. I also value very positively the degree of freedom given to me during these months. That type of time and space are extremely precious when you are trying to evolve as a thinker and curator.



The coincidence of the Glasgow International Festival with the beginning of the Fellowship was very beneficial as a starting milestone for the journey. Other great stages included taking part in a series of critical conversations with this year's graduating MFA students, performing as mentor for a group of young curators as part of the Somewhere_to initiative, and specially finding generous artists such as Jamie Fitzpatrick, Rachal Bradley, Alasdair Wallace, Scott Rogers, Christine Jones, Marilou Lemmens, Richard Ibghy or Henry Coombes who welcomed me into their studios. The finishing line is still ahead though, as my research during the fellowship will materialize in an exhibition at CCA in which I will try to contribute my ideas to the understanding of how art relates to a particular space and time.

Emma Brasó
October, 2012







Photos:
1) Sacrilege, Jeremy Deller, Glasgow International. Photo by Michelle Kasprzak
2) Ping pong tournament at CCA Glasgow, photo by Emma Brasó
3) MFA Degree show, photo by Emma Brasó
4) MFA Degree show, photo by Emma Brasó