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Art in Practice: December 2010

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Arts administration as art practice. Thank God, yes! Banff International Curatorial Institute. November 12-14, 2010. As a recent graduate from a museum studies and curatorial program, I thought the topic of the recent symposium at The Banff Centre, Are Curators Unprofessional? Would be pertinent to questions I have about my own curatorial career as I am still trying to determine what curating might mean for me in my own context. This holds true for all arts workers. Followed 2008's Trade Secrets. Admitte...

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Art in Practice: August 2011

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Arts administration as art practice. Us Against Us (and occasionally Them). Many artists take the submission-rejection/acceptance process personally and in turn reject these processes, questioning the circumstances that led to this system of communication between artists and facilitators. A recent show at gallerywest curated by Clayton Windatt, Social Rejection,. The pressing question for me is “who are these cultural elite? There was a follow up open forum, Exhibition and Its Discontents. An expression ...

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Art in Practice: June 2010

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Arts administration as art practice. Nature in the City. June 19 – September 12, 2010. 231 Queens Quay West
. Toronto ON Canada M5J 2G8. Apologies 1 – 6. Courtesy the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto. Curator: Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs. What forms of communication, miscommunication, intimacy, and exchange ensue? Coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity, the exhibition considers how adaptation functions as a form of...

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Art in Practice: January 2011

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Arts administration as art practice. Artist Placement Group Manifesto. The context is half the work. The function of medium in art is determined not so much by that factual object, as by the process and the levels of attention to which the work aims. That the proper contribution of art to society is art. That the status of artists within organizations must necessarily be in line with other professional persons, engaged within the organization. Installation of the Industrial Board Room, Art and Economics.

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Art in Practice: February 2010

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Arts administration as art practice. Notions of the sublime that one must accept and embrace in order to fully benefit from the experience of isolation as a source of creative inspiration. WPG), Ragnar Kjartansson. And his collaborator David Thor Johnsson,. 2009), a five channel video installation with an original composition (in five separate parts which coalesce) by Thor Johnsson. This sort of site-specific inspiration in Kjartansson’s The End. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About an Arts Administrator.

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Art in Practice: September 2009

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Arts administration as art practice. Art Party : Art Money. As a fly-on-the-wall volunteer at the Canadian Art Gallery Hop Gala. On September 24th, 2009 I was astounded at the capacity of the Canadian Art. Event doesn't give that impression. At any rate, the Gala is the magazine's annual fundraiser: leaving the impression that it can pull off a fancy and exciting display without the funding boost. This year the Gala and the Hop mark the 25th anniversary of Canadian Art Magazine. This question from Rhodes...

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Art in Practice: November 2009

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Arts administration as art practice. All the places I've applied since July. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gallery 1313 (Director and Board Member). Artscape – Wychwood Barns. Ontario College of Art and Design (administrative, three times). Documentary Organization of Canada. New Photography Gallery (Bau Xi). St Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Lord Cultural Resources (twice). Stephen Bulger Gallery (twice). Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Ontario Association of Art Galleries. 1000 Acts of Art. You can t...

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Art in Practice: April 2011

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Arts administration as art practice. It takes everyone to know no one. Lorna Brown, Jennifer Cherniack, Rodrigo Hernandz-Gomez,. Chris Holman, Yvonne Lammerich, Dax Morrison, and Anne Ransden. Curated by Ana Barajas. April 8 – May 21, 2011. Jennifer Cherniack, The History of Art According to My Archives. Ongoing series in a variety of media, 2009-present. An exhibition about exhibitions and the institutions which host them. That some of the works in It takes everyone to know no one. Jennifer Cherniack, T...

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Art in Practice: May 2010

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Arts administration as art practice. Two artists currently based out of the Centre presented separate works the other week that led me to decide that a sense of specific place and time is indeed influential to one’s creative process. Without previously considering place as significant, both works converted me through their use of environmental context as something both evocative and intrinsic to their structure. 18min, HD Black and White. Images courtesy of artist. Installation images courtesy of artist.

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Art in Practice: January 2012

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Arts administration as art practice. Double Double Land's Curtain Show. Double Double Land, 209 Augusta Ave. Hosted by John McCurly Gwen Bieniara, and Glenn Macaulay. Steve Kado, and. The entire Curtain Show is a build up, promising art and glamour and excitement revealed over time with the dramatic act of drawing back of the curtain to present three performances by three artists Xenia. Brad Tinmouth and Steve Kado. After much talk and awkward stalling on behalf of the hosts, the first reveal. The room i...