School of Visual Arts (SVA)

Curating the Curatorial: SVA MA Curatorial Practice

Saturday, November 2, 2013, 9:30am–6:30pm
School of Visual Arts Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
Free & open to the public

Three “Position” keynote talks will be given, interspersed among three panels that will engage different aspects of the field: “Thinking Objects,” “Remapping the Collection,” and “Ecology of the Expanded Curatorial Field.”

Panelists and speakers include:

Wassan Al-Khudairi, independent curator and former director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha • Daniel Birnbaum, director, Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Saskia Bos, dean, School of Art, The Cooper Union, New York • Ana Paula Cohen, independent curator, São Paulo • Bice Curiger, director, Van Gogh Foundation, Arles • Clémentine Deliss, director, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt • Okwui Enwezor, director, Haus der Kunst, Munich • Eva Franch i Gilabert, director, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York • Graham Harman, philosopher, American University in Cairo • Jens Hoffmann, deputy director, Jewish Museum, New York • Maria Lind, director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm • Steven Henry Madoff, chair, Masters in Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York • Chus Martinez, chief curator, El Museo del Barrio, New York • Josiah McElheny, artist, New York • Shamim M. Momin, director, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) • Gabi Ngcobo, director, Center for Historical Reenactments, and lecturer, The Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg • David A. Ross, Chair, MFA Art Practice, SVA, New York, and former director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • Jeffrey Schnapp, co-director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University • Simon Sheikh, director, MFA in Curating, Goldsmiths, London • Jovana Stokic, deputy chair, Masters in Curatorial Practice, SVA, New York • Mick Wilson, director, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg • Ari Wiseman, deputy director, Guggenheim Museum, New York

The summit is followed in the SVA Theatre at 7:30 p.m. by an open house information session for those interested in applying to the MA Curatorial Practice. For more information about the open house and to register for it, please click here.