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2010
Speakers Series - ANTHONY HUBERMAN
September 29, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
"I know That I Know Nothing" - Lecture by Anthony Huberman
Speakers Series: TIRDAD ZOLGHADR - TAIPEI BIENNIAL 2010: BEFORE AND AFTER
October 13, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Tirdad Zolghadr will discuss the international biennial he is curating this year in Taipei.
Speakers Series - CLAUDE WAMPLER
October 20, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - SILVIA KOLBOWSKI
October 27, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series - MASSIMILIANO GIONI
November 12, 2010
The New Museum, NYC
Massimiliano Gioni will discuss the international biennial he is curating this year in Gwangju.
Speakers Series: MARION VON OSTEN - DISPLAYING THE ABSENT. TRANSCULTURAL MODERNISM
November 17, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - MARIO GARCIA TORRES
November 30, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
December 1, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - MICHAEL PORTNOY IN DISCUSSION WITH TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
December 8, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - CLAIRE BISHOP 'FORMER WEST: EXHIBITIONS AS SOCIAL SPACE IN THE 1990S'
December 15, 2010
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
2011
Speakers Series - A TALK BY MARIA HLAVAJOVA
February 15, 2011
CCS Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - ANTHONY HUBERMAN : ON THE ARTIST'S INSTITUTE
February 16, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series: DEBRA SINGER - THE VIEW FROM A VOLCANO: SELECTIONS FROM THE KITCHEN'S ARCHIVE
February 23, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - DOUGLAS CRIMP : TWO CATALOGUE ESSAYS ON DANCE AND FILM
March 1, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series: BIK VAN DER POL - ARCHIVES
March 8, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series - A CONVERSATION WITH STEFAN KALMÁR AND RICHARD BIRKETT
March 30, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day.
Speakers Series - LAUREN CORNELL : RE-THINKING NEW MEDIA ART20
April 5, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Lauren Cornell will give an overview of her work with Rhizome and the New Museum, focusing specifically on her most recent exhibition Free.
Speakers Series - SCOTT ROTHKOPF
April 11, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf will discuss the curatorial methodologies behind two current exhibitions, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, the artist’s twenty-five-year retrospective, and Singular Visions, an experimental presentation of twelve works from museum’s permanent collection.
Speakers Series - CARSTEN SEIFFARTH
April 19, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day
Speakers Series - BARBARA CLAUSEN : ON CURATING PERFORMANCE
May 4, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Performance art´s recent and ongoing popularity, institutionalization, and historicization challenges the representational politics of the live and the mediated within the exhibition context, posing a range of questions for artists and curators alike.
Speakers Series - ANNE ELLEGOOD
May 11, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series - JENS HOFFMANN : AN AMERICAN TRILOGY
May 18, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Jens Hoffmann's presentation will revolve around a recent series of exhibition based on iconic American novels of which Huckleberry Finn (2010) was the final installment in a trilogy of displays that were looking at American history through the lens of literature.
Speakers Series: ANTONIS PITTAS - WOMEN ARE THE BOSSES HERE
September 12, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Antonis Pittas is an artist who mainly creates context-sensitive spatial installations, which are informed by architecture, art-historical references, the performative aspects of installation art, and its social dynamics.
Speakers Series: TOM KEENAN - MENGELE'S SKULL
September 19, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Thomas Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Literature, Human Rights Program at Bard College.
Speakers Series - REGINE BASHA - FOUR DIGNITIES OF THE WARRIOR'S PATH OR HOW TO CURATE, UNCURATE, THEN CURATE AGAIN.
September 26, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
This will be a presentation about the variable circumstances of independent curating.
Speakers Series - KRIST GRUIJTHUIJSEN - ON SELF-CONSUMPTION, 2011
October 3, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
This talk will discuss the artistic and institutional self-absorption through self-mythologization, in which earlier and current (curatorial) projects of Gruijthuijsen are presented as an ongoing investigation of the subject.
Speakers Series - MALIK GAINES : FESTIVE TIME, THE BENEVOLENT LEGACIES OF OIL BARONS, & LOS ANGELES (1945 – FOREVER)
October 17, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Malik Gaines will discuss “Talks About Acts,” a series he and Alex Segade have coordinated at LA>
Speakers Series - SUHAIL MALIK - APE SAYS NO
October 24, 2011
CCS Seminar Room
SPEAKERS SERIES: ANTHONY HUBERMAN - THE LETTER T
November 7, 2011
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Anthony Huberman is a curator and writer based in New York.
Speakers Series: Helen Molesworth
November 14, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Molesworth will discuss her upcoming exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.
SPEAKERS SERIES: GERARD BYRNE - Images or Shadows
November 21, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Byrne will talk about his recent survey show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which closed on Monday, Oct. 31.
SPEAKERS SERIES: Sarah Pierce - Murmurs and Legacies: thinking through the curatorial
November 28, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this evening's discussion Sarah Pierce will introduce some ideas that allow us to think about the curatorial -- not what the curatorial is or whose work the curatorial refers to -- but rather as a mode of being that functions at different levels of articulation, at different times and in different capacities throughout what might be called the staging of an exhibition.
SPEAKERS SERIES: CHARLES ESCHE - Historical Times: the capacities of an art museum and how it comes to terms with the world today
December 5, 2011
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
The talk will move from the meta to the micro, placing the activities of one northwest European museum in its particular historical context today.
2012
Speakers Series: Suhail Malik - The Ruling Elite Have Feelings Too
January 30, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Fionn Meade
February 6, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Fionn Meade will talk about a current project, The Assistants, which looks at the transitive role of artworks as “assisting” figures, custodians of memory and producers of deviance, including work by Dieter Roth, Cathy Wilkes, Uri Aran, Rosemarie Trockel, Laure Prouvost, and Alexander Kluge, among others.
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Jeannine Tang
February 13, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Jeannine Tang will examine the range and reception of Martha Rosler’s photomontage series Bringing the War Home (1967-1972), with implications for how art history produces its objects of media, activism and art.
Speakers Series : Boris Groys - "On the Use of Theory by Art and Use of Art by Theory".
February 16, 2012
CCS Bard Galleries
To celebrate the closing of Antonis Pittas's exhibition RETROACTIVE, CCS Bard will present a talk by the esteemed Russian critic and theorist Boris Groys, organized by CCS Bard graduate students Olga Dekalo and Annie Larmon
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Tirdad Zolghadr
February 20, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Using a variety of examples, Zolghadr will address the notion of the "institution" as trope, political arena and moral horizon. Said examples will include his new novel, his exhibition proposal for the Hessel Museum 2013, the curatorial aftermath of the Taipei Biennial 2010, as well as the CCS Speakers Series itself, particularly Suhail Malik's October 2011 lecture "Ape Says No".
Speakers Series : Kelly Taxter, CCS '03 - Second Chances
February 27, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
“Second Chances” focuses on Matters of Fact, for which I was invited to re-evaluate and re-hang Too Much Joy, Re-visiting Works from the Pattern and Decoration Movement, an exhibition I initially presented in 2002 while a first year student at CCS Bard.
Speakers Series : Nayland Blake - Brains, Beards and the Verdict of History: Some Queerness from the Bay Area
March 5, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Artist Nayland Blake speaks about his the short-lived zine Brains in the greater context of San Francisco's explosion of queer activism and culture in the early 1990's He will be bringing examples of related 'zines and images from his curatorial projects, including "In a Different Light".
Speakers Series : Greg Moynahan - "An Odd Thought Concerning a New Sort of Exhibition": Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
March 12, 2012
How did the concept of scientific experiment first arise in the early modern period, and what was its relation to artistic experience? The history of science and the history of museums have put forth a variety of answers to this question, but this lecture will suggest that a key issue was the relatively late appearance of the problem of infinity. Using Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) to frame this development, the discussion will conclude with an overview of Leibniz's phantasmorgic "Odd Thought" (1675). The piece describes a "museum of everything that could be imagined" and now reads like a strange carnival, but was apparently the first outline of Leibniz' plan for the Prussian Academy of Science.d Archives.
Speakers Series : Lia Gangitano - Dead Flowers
March 19, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In an effort to understand a genealogy of influences reflective of the role of the non-commercial, non-institutional space, I often look to artists who seem to have inspired, or instigated, their existence. The 2010 exhibition Dead Flowers, based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey and curated for Vox Populi, an artist collective in Philadelphia, is a manifestation of this inquiry, which grew out of an essay commissioned for the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night. The assignment was to address, in tandem, notions of the underground and the relevance of the alternative space.
Speakers Series : Lars Bang Larsen - Dexter Bang Sinister: Black and White Psychedelia
March 26, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Lars Bang Larsen is an art historian, writer and curator. He has co-curated group exhibitions such as “Populism,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005), “La insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes,” Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2005), and “A History of Irritated Material,” Raven Row, London (2010). His books include The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968 (2010) and Sture Johannesson (2002).
Speakers Series: Sylvere Lotringer - Theory in Art
March 28, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This lecture will address the conditions of today’s art world in comparison with the New York art scene of the seventies and the place theory -- and Semiotext(e) -- has occupied in the metamorphosis of a small art community into a global trans-aesthetic art industry. Lotringer will conclude his talk with a call for a more autonomous art practice and organization – more horizontal than hierarchical and less geared toward the production of art commodities.
Speakers Series : Ingrid Schaffner - Unpacking “Deep Storage”
April 9, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will address the origins, organization, and propagation of “Deep Storage” in Schaffner’s work.
Speakers Series : Arlen Austin and Jason Boughton - "Artists' Talk: The Amorous Contestations of the Precarious Workers will be the Weapon of Victory."
April 16, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Arlen Austin and Jason Boughton will give a brief overview of their collaborative practice with special focus on poultry housing, workplace organizing and manicure maintenance. The presentation will be accentuated by informative graphics and musical selections chosen more with tact and less with taste.
Speakers Series - Hal Foster : Critique in a post-critical age
April 23, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will take up the intellectual formation of Foster's generation of theorists & historians, the question of "the contemporary," & critique in a post-critical age.
Speakers Series - Ed Halter : Cinema as an Event
April 30, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
A lecture on curating film and video in a variety of contexts, including Halter’s work at Light Industry, previous programming for film festivals, and exhibitions for Tate Modern, MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, the 2012 Whitney Biennial and elsewhere.
Speakers Series - Peter Eleey : What's Wrong?
May 7, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
What are the ethical rules of contemporary curating, and how should we define them? When and how can they be broken?
Speakers Series : Jay Sanders
May 14, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
A conversation between Jay Sanders and Johanna Burton about the Whitney Biennial.
Speakers Series : Liam Gillick in Conversation with Tom Eccles
September 10, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Artist Liam Gillick and Tom Eccles, Executive Director of CCS Bard, converse about Gillick's career and current exhibition, From 199A to 199B : Liam Gillick, on view at The Hessel Museum of Art.
Speakers Series - Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly : "Love, Minimalism and Other Impossibilities."
September 17, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk will address Gerard and Kelly’s collaborative projects through the rubric of the legacy and politics of Minimalism--and those parts of human experience minimal art negates in order to function. Love and Minimalism are both impossible subjects to address in contemporary art and yet, they can't seem to get away from either. In a discussion of their recent projects and a reading of excerpts from current writing, they will address the body and its perishable materialities as the site for working through this antinomy.
Speakers Series : Sven Augustijnen
September 25, 2012
Olin 102, Bard College
Sven Augustijnen will talk about his film Spectres, as well as the exhibtion and book.
Speakers Series : Hito Steyerl - Recent Works
October 1, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Steyerl will talk about recent projects.
Speakers Series : Sarah Pierce
October 15, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Trajal Harrell
October 22, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Work in Progress - Montserrat Albores Gleason
October 29, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this talk Montserrat Albores will do a chronological revision of some projects that constitute her curatorial practice. The talk will take as a starting point her thesis exhibition at the CCS and unravel to resent projects, in order to present each project in relation to others.
Speakers Series : Hendrik Folkerts
November 5, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Andrea Kroksnes
November 12, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Roger Berkowitz - Globalization and the Human Condition
November 19, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Gregg Bordowitz - Testing Some Beliefs
November 26, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Gideon Lester
December 3, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Lars Bang Larsen
December 4, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Julia Bryan-Wilson
December 10, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Maria Lind
December 17, 2012
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
2013
Speakers Series : Suhail Malik
January 29, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Is Contemporary Art’s Paradigm of Escape Inescapable?
Speakers Series : Nadja Millner-Larsen
February 4, 2013
This talk is about the anarchist anti-art group Black Mask, their collaborations with multimedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s expanded cinema environments, and the development of their radically anti-representational practice.
Speakers Series : Rebecca Stephany
February 11, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Roger Buergel
February 18, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: Paul O'Neill
February 20, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Glen Fogel
February 25, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Kristin Lucas - Versions
March 11, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : The Artist Talks
March 18, 2013
Speakers Series : Saskia Bos
April 1, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Bettina Funcke
April 8, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Stuart Comer
April 15, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series : Bruce Hainley in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr
April 22, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: Dieter Roelstraete
April 29, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Speakers Series: Kelly Nipper
May 6, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
