curated by John Weeden

Leah Moskowitz, "Untitled," (chair piece)
2002
C-Print

To What End? is an exhibition of actions for which there are no concrete rewards. Videos and photographs portray individuals engaged in repetitious physical gestures that prove materially useless. Selected works by Matt Calderwood, Hilary Lloyd, Declan Clarke, Leah Moskowitz, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci provoke contemplation on the nature of art and human effort and address a notion of "productive futility."

In addition to To What End?, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will also present five other exhibitions curated by students in the Center's graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Organized by the students as part of the requirement for the master's degree, the five other exhibitions—Split: Women in Dislocation; More Than A Thousand Words; Rest Assured; This Is Us; Subscribe: Recent Art in Print—will be on view from May 11 to 25, 2003.