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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Speakers Series: João Ribas Monday, May 13, 2013 The solo exhibition is conspicuously overlooked in the voluminous literature on curatorial practice and the historiography of exhibitions. This even though it plays a significant role in forming the conventions of exhibition making since the 18th century.What accounts for this repressed in curatorial discourse, as opposed to the group or thematic exhibition, or the events of biennials and international surveys? What issues,both practical and ideational, logistical and methodological, is the solo exhibition explicitly concerned with? How might a genealogy of the solo exhibition propose the relevance and scope of this typology today?João Ribas (b. 1979, Braga, Portugal) is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously Curator at The Drawing Center, in New York. His recent exhibitions include In the Holocene (MIT List Visual Arts Center) an exhibition on art and speculation spanning from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and exhibitions of the work of Amalia Pica, Joachim Koester, Akram Zaatari, Cheyney Thompson, The Otolith Group, Stan VanDerBeek, Otto Piene, Frances Stark, and Matt Mullican, among others. He has been a contributor to numerous publications, including Contemporary Art: From 1989 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Realism Materialism Art (CCS Bard, forthcoming). His recent publications include Cheyney Thompson (Walter Koenig; Amalia Pica (MCA Chicago); Otto Piene: Lichtballett (MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2012) and an edited volume of the writings of Frances Stark (MIT List, 2010). He is the winner of four consecutive AICA Exhibition Awards (2008–11) and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010). A visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide, and has been an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).About The Speakers Series: 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. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Location: CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1 Sponsor: Center for Curatorial Studies Contact: CCS Bard. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7598 Website: https://www.bard.edu/ccs If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/