ICI Curatorial Intensive

The Curatorial Intensive is ICI’s short-term, low-cost training program that offers curators the chance to develop their exhibition ideas and make connections to leaders in the field, providing the opportunity to forge new international networks through peer-group education. The Curatorial Intensive takes place twice annually in New York, and in other locations in conjunction with institutional partners worldwide.

Past Intensives

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  Curating Performance

  Program dates:

  November 13-22, 2011

  Organized from November 13-22, 2011 in association with the visual art performance organization Performa, the Curatorial Intensive will use the Performa 11 biennial as a platform to explore how curating performance art is being theorized and implemented today.

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  Summer 2011

  Program dates:

  July 10-18, 2011

  In summer 2011, 10-14 curators from around the world were selected to participate in the Curatorial Intensive for a rigorous 8-day schedule of workshops, discussions, critiques, and presentations, as well as site visits to local institutions, private collections, and artists’ studios.

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  Curating in the Public Realm

  Program dates:

  October 24-November 1, 2010

  In October 2010 in New York ICI is organizing The Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators internationally who want to learn about curating in the public realm.

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  Summer 2010

  Program dates:

  June 6-17, 2010

  The first iteration of The Curatorial Intensive took place in June 2010 in New York for emerging curators.

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Partner Programs

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  Instituto Inhotim

  Program dates:

  April 22-28, 2012

  ICI and Instituto Inhotim in Minas Gerais, Brazil are now accepting applications from curators working internationally to participate in a short-course training program.

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  Mumbai

  Program dates:

  December 12-14, 2011

  This three day forum on curatorial practice will be offered in Mumbai in collaboration with the Mohile Parikh Center (MPC). This event develops directly out of the successful prior collaboration, “What Is Curating?” an intensive hands-on series of workshops organized by ICI and MPC in December 2010.

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All Past Programs

Recent Proposals

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  Lives of Artists By Eriola Pira

  Lives of Artists is a curatorial research project that aims to initiate a critical discourse and presentation of the fictional artist as an artistic practice and production.

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  Catalyst: Artists of Southern Louisiana Respond to the Gulf Oil Crisis By Robin Atkinson

  CATALYST is an exhibition exploring the ways in which artists from Southern Louisiana have critiqued and confronted the Gulf Coast Oil Crisis and its connected issues.

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  Uncommonplaces: Reinventing the Everyday By Pieter Vermeulen

  Uncommonplaces (New York / Antwerp) will be presented as a dialogue between a group show within an exhibition venue and small, subtle interventions in public space, investigating art’s potential to subvert, suspend, or transform the banal or trivial dimension of everyday life.

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  Cabin Fever By JJ Kegan McFadden

  Cabin Fever is a group exhibition featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work examines boredom, malaise, as well as social and mental isolation.

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About the Curatorial Intensive

The Curatorial Intensive is ICI’s short-term, low-cost training program that offers curators the chance to develop their exhibition ideas and make connections to leaders in the field, providing the opportunity to forge new international networks through peer-group education.

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About ICI

Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. A catalyst for independent thinking, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions, to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration. Working across disciplines and historical precedents, the organization is a hub that provides access to the people, ideas, and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.