PCF Partners with De Appel Curatorial Programme
Location: Amsterdam
The representatives of Prince Claus Network Partners and De Appel Curatorial Programme will meet on the 16th of December 2010, from 9:30 in the morning until noon at the curatorial programme room in De Appel Office.
After a successful meeting and discussion with Arthub’s Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio held in Shanghai in October 2010, the occasion of the meeting of the PCF Network partners in Amsterdam offered a unique opportunity for the group to meet again with a larger group of artistic initiatives.
The scope of the meeting is to create parallel experiences in curatorial practices from various contexts and hopefully address common points of interests related to researching and curating contemporary art programs.
Short biographies of Curatorial Programme Participants (2010/2011):
Marie Frampier (b.1985, France) studied History of Art in Bordeaux and Rennes and graduated from the Sorbonne within the Professional MA programme “Exhibiting contemporary art “. Her research focuses on curating contemporary performance and with the experimental and performative nature of curating and art criticism. She was assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC and editorial assistant at the contemporary art magazine Trouble. She regularly contributes to the magazine Critique d’Art.
Natasha Ginwala (b. 1985, Pune, India) is a freelance art writer and curator, currently participating in the curatorial programme at De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam). She has studied at The School of Arts and Aesthetics (JNU, New Delhi) and completed a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Natasha was selected as critic-in-residence for the PEERS ‘09 Residency at KHOJ Studios (New Delhi) and was assistant curator of Monsoon Festival IV – an interactive arts festival addressing climate change. She organized Work in Progress: Dialogues on Curation in collaboration with the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), a platform to discuss emergent discourses on contemporary curation as well as the role of artists and cultural theorists as facilitators of curatorial processes. In 2008, Natasha was part of the curatorial team for the exhibition Where in the World at the Devi Art Foundation (Gurgaon). She has previously worked as assistant director at Red Ice Films (Mumbai).
Jacob Korczynski (b. 1979, Canada), is an independent curator based in Toronto, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Department of Film and Video at York University. He has curated projects for the Dunlop Art Gallery, SAW Gallery, Vtape, Gallery TPW and the Art Gallery of York University amongst others, and his writing has appeared in Prefix Photo, Ciel Variable, Border Crossings, C Magazine and Fillip. A former member of the Pleasure Dome collective, he was also the co-curator of Print Generation and From Instructions, the 22nd and 23rd editions of the Images Festival.
Javier Villa (b. 1978, Argentina) studied Art History at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Journalism at TEA, Buenos Aires. He has been working as a free-lance curator, artist and writer since 2005. He co-founded Rosa Chancho, an artist collective that ran an independent space from 2005 to 2006. Rosa Chancho has also developed several projects between the curatorial and the artistic, building different platforms for communal experiences over the past 5 years. He works as a Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where he also co-curated a series of three shows over a two year period with Guillermo Faivovich. He writes for La Nación newspaper and different cultural magazines. His curatorial practice focuses on designing experimental curatorial devices and new spaces for visual arts. He is interested in site-responsive projects and ritual experiences.
Rieke Vos (b. 1981, Netherlands) studied Art and Architectural History at the University of Amsterdam and the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her thesis was titled Citywalkers. The art of Janet Cardiff and Francis Alÿs, on walking as art. In 2008 she started working as a researcher for the architecture firm Powerhouse Company in Rotterdam, where she engaged in an extensive research project on the economic crisis and its intricate relation to architecture called Rien ne va plus/Faites vos jeux. She was curator of exhibition Rien ne va plus that opened in September 2009 at the NAiM/Bureau Europe in Maastricht, editor-in-chief of the accompanying reader (published i.c.w. with A10 magazine) and curator of the related symposium organized at the Berlage Institute in June 2010. She is a visiting critic at the project space Lokaal 01 in Antwerp and writes for various magazines such as Mr. Motley, Tubelight and Nowishere. In her practice she combines her interest in contemporary art, urban studies and architecture.
Vivian Ziherl (b. 1982, Australia) is a freelance art critic and curator born in Brisbane, Australia with degrees in Visual Art and in Peace and Conflict Analysis. In addition to her studies Vivian worked as a curatorial assistant with Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (2008-2009), as an arts journalist for the Australian Broadcast Commission (2005-2007) and with weekly reporting on grassroots political issues for anarchist radio (2003-2007). As an independent curator Vivian has organised several exhibitions in extra-institutional contexts including an inner-city bridge, a semi-trailer, a retail franchise network and online; as well as public-lectures, symposia, publications and commissions of new work. Vivian’s recent exhibitions have included works by Olaf Breuning, Ryan Trecartin, Igor Grubic and Jemima Wyman, as well as a screening co-curated in partnership with Electronic Arts Intermix (New York).
PCF Network Partners Participating:
ATA, DRIK, Supersudaca, Arab Image Foundation, Arthub, Triangle Arts Trust/Gasworks (to be confirmed), Conrado Uribe (Curator)
