Promotional material for COUM Transmissions’ exhibition Prostitution, 1976. Courtesy of Tate Archive
Events in this season:
- And I Bring Back Untold Treasures: The Curator As Artistic Importer
- Higher State of Consciousness: The Psychedelic Event
- From Violence to Endurance: Extreme Curating
- Spatial politics: The physical dimensions of curating
- Hi tech, Low tech: Technology in Art + Curating
- The Artist-curator: curators as artists and artists as curators
- Sex Sells: Erotic Experience and Controversy as Curatorial Method
- Fun and Games: The Gallery as Adult Play Centre
- Political manifesto as curatorial project
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60 Years of Curating
27 November 2007 - 24 September 2008
A series of ten talks in 2007 and 2008.
To mark the ICA's 60th anniversary, we look back at the dominant curatorial approaches of the institute's history, questioning their continued relevance today and looking at the possibility of their revival. The series takes key exhibitions and themes from the ICA's past as the starting point for discussion - exhibitions including Parallel of Life and Art, Prostitution, Cybernetic Serendipity and Unknown Political Prisoner, and themes such as eroticism, technology, psychedelia and destruction. Transcripts from the talks will form the basis of a publication to be released at the end of the series.
Developed in association with Ben Cranfield and the London Consortium. Ben Cranfield is a collaborative doctoral award student at the ICA and London Consortium, currently working on an intellectual history of the arts in postwar Britain.
Talks
From Violence to Endurance: Extreme Curating
24 September 2008
Curate it like you mean it and INSTANTLY you will see how to DESTROY ILLUSION AND DRAW ATTENTION TO THE FACTS.
Talks
Higher State of Consciousness: The Psychedelic Event
25 June 2008
When Soft Machine played with the Boyles in 1969, when the ICA celebrated a Mid Summer High, was the field of the curator in danger of giving way to drugs and flashing lights?
Talks
And I Bring Back Untold Treasures: The Curator As Artistic Importer
14 May 2008
Is it arrogant to assume we have the tools to understand artwork from very different cultures? Part of the 60 Years of Curating talks series.
Talks
Spatial politics: The physical dimensions of curating
29 April 2008
Should the curator be concerned with the physical experience of the audience? Artists and curators discuss.
Talks
Hi tech, Low tech: Technology in Art + Curating
19 March 2008
In an age of ubiquitous technology, why is computer-based art still such a problem?
Talks
Fun and Games: The Gallery as Adult Play Centre
29 February 2008
From 60s happenings to a gallery full of children, are our playful impulses just a distraction from the serious business of art?
Talks
Sex Sells: Erotic Experience and Controversy as Curatorial Method
21 January 2008
Does sex still have the power to shock? Is controversy still one of the highest aims of the curator?
Talks
The Artist-curator: curators as artists and artists as curators
11 December 2007
Is there a fundamental difference of position between artist and curator? Do we need curators at all?
Talks
Political manifesto as curatorial project
27 November 2007
Should curators get involved in politics? Curators and artists look back, with reference to the ICA's political curating history.