Archive 2017-18
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating Talk 2
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:15:00 BST
- End: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:00:00 BST
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating, in collaboration with Art Monthly and the newly reopened Hatton Gallery.
Talk 2 Chrissie Iles and Polly Staple, chaired by Alistair Robinson
Members of the University and the public are warmly invited to attend
Polly Staple is the Director of Chisenhale Gallery, London. She has curated numerous group shows and commissioned solo projects and exhibitions by artists such as Hannah Black, Ed Atkins, Maria Eichhorn, Camille Henrot, Mark Leckey, Jumana Manna, Helen Marten, Pratchaya Phinthong, Hito Steyerl, Cathy Wilkes and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. In 2014 Staple was awarded the biannual Genesis Prize, ‘recognising her work as an outstanding mentor of artistic talent’. Located on a residential street in London’s East End, Chisenhale Gallery has an award winning, 35-year history as one of London’s most innovative forums for contemporary art. Chisenhale Gallery operates alternately as a production agency, exhibition hall, research centre, and community resource.
Chrissie Iles is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Past curatorial projects include major exhibitions of moving image installation, such as ‘Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977’ and ‘Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1910-2016’. She co-curated the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials and is responsible for building the Whitney Museum’s collection of moving image art and has published and lectured widely on contemporary art, and amongst other academic commitments Iles is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, New York and was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa) by the Department of the History of Art at Bristol University. She was a juror for the 2003 Tate Turner Prize.
Alistair Robinson (chair) has been Director of Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art since 2002. At NGCA he has provided artists such as Harun Farocki and Cory Arcangel with their first UK shows, and given figures such as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd their first public exhibitions. He is co-author of the 2018 volume 'Museum and Gallery Studies' published by Routledge, and is editor of a forthcoming series of monographs with artists working with photography and digital imaging. He is currently undertaking doctoral research at Newcastle University and has taught into the Gallery Studies MA.
The Producers Part II: New Perspectives on Curating is funded by Newcastle University, devised by Uta Kögelsberger (Newcastle University) and Chris McCormack (Art Monthly), with the generous support and input of staff at the Hatton Galley, the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University and Art Monthly.
Part II: New Perspectives on Curating brings together curators, writers and artists to examine how curatorial practices have responded to significant changes in the art world. The talks will address issues such as, the fallout of an increasingly globalised art world; the growing significance of the role of collectors; the reshaping of public sector art economies and the ways in which the development of new technologies has redefined how artworks are made, understood and disseminated.
Upcoming Talk Programme for Summer term 2018
8th of May 2018
5.15pm Achim Borchardt-Hume, Director of Exhibitions, Tate Modern, and Paul Goodwin, UAL Chair of Contemporary Art and Urbanism and Director, Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Research Centre
5.15pm 16 May
16th of May
Martin Clark, Director, Camden Arts Centre, London, and Mason Leaver-Yap, Associate Curator, Kunstwerke, Berlin