2010 Spring Exhibitions and Projects: Group 1
CCS Bard Galleries
Beginning in February, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents a series of 12 exhibitions and projects, curated by 14 second-year students, and including work by more than 40 leading and emerging contemporary artists at the CCS Bard Galleries and Library. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of mediums. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree.
In a world of information and image overload that is often accompanied by disturbed perception, reality can be misrepresented and misunderstood. Derangement investigates issues of misrepresentation, misunderstanding, and confusion.
The Office for Parafictional Research was established to study the implications of Headless, a body of work by the artist duo Goldin+Senneby.
Open Score Variations is an exploration of “event notation” and its differentiation in art from the postwar era to the present.
For All the Wrong Reasons is an interpretive framework around two abstract paintings by the Iranian politician/artist Mir-Hossein Mousavi. In addition to the presentation of the two paintings and selected ephemera, the exhibition also includes an installation by the Brooklyn-based artist Clifford Borress.
Remodeling Systems explores, through the works of Vlatka Horvat, Pablo Helguera, and Alon Levin, attitudes and practices that engage social systems, ideological dynamics of individual practices, and collective agency.