2010 Spring Exhibitions and Projects: Group 2
April 11 – May 23, 2010
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Exhibition Category
Collected exhibitions
Beginning in February, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents a series of 12 exhibitions and projects, curated by 14 second-year students, and including work by more than 40 leading and emerging contemporary artists at the CCS Bard Galleries and Library. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of mediums. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree.
Included exhibitions
Living Modern
Curated by Laura Barlow
Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self-determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58-acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe’s Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.
Not Again, “Making History” Reimagined
Curated by Sarah Demeuse
The beginning: 18 installation shots, a press release, a gallery leaflet. These remainders of Making History, a 1999 CCS Bard thesis exhibition, are the backbone of Andrea van der Straeten’s unusual inquiry into a past show’s propositions. Her 2010 tweaked reinterpretation emerges out of conversations and collaborative research with the curator, who was eager to know and use what came before.
How To Begin? Envisioning The Impact Of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Curated by Özge Ersoy
How to Begin? Envisioning the Impact of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi presents a collection of essays by artists, curators, and writers.
Second Coming—A Curatorial Collaboration
Curated by Gabi Ngcobo, Carlos E. Palacios, Andrea Torreblanca de la Sierra
Second Coming is a collaboration that explores notions of absence, the phantasmagoric, and postcolonial subjectivities.
Requires Extra Budget For Lettuce
Curated by Mackenzie Schneider
In Requires extra budget for lettuce, emerging conceptual artist Jacob Stewart-Halevy responds to Giovanni Anselmo’s early work in general and to the sculpture Untitled 1968 (Eating Structure), part of CCS Bard’s permanent collection, in particular.
The Bomb Ponds: Work By Vandy Rattana
Curated by Francesca Sonara
In October 2009 photographer Vandy Rattana traveled to those Cambodian provinces most severely bombed by the U.S military during the Vietnam War. The goal of this journey was to reopen dialogue with local villagers on this traumatic history and to document the scarred landscape as it exists today.
Up River
Curated by Diana Stevenson
Marie Lorenz and Diana Stevenson will embark on a journey up the Hudson River in a small, homemade boat. Setting off in early April from an undisclosed location on the Bard College Campus, they will navigate the tides and currents of the Hudson as they travel upriver toward Troy, for however long it takes.