Artists Space

Survival Skills Workshops: Declare Your Independence

Workshop
June 28, 2005, 6:30pm

Declare Your Independence: Independent Curating Now.

Speakers: Dean Daderko, Curator; Susan Hapgood, Director of Exhibitions, Independent Curators International; Isolde Brielmaier, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art; and Catherine Morris, Independent Curator and Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art, The Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Calling All Artists!
We are pleased to offer the following talks! As places are limited, please sign up in advance online at: www.artistsspace.org.

Dean Daderko is a curator based in New York. His most recent exhibition is Can I Get A Witness; a group show which was presented at Longwood Art Project @ Hostos in the Bronx. From 2000-2005 he programmed Parlour Projects in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which presented solo shows by artists including Forcefield, Judi Werthein, Boris Torres, Sharon Hayes and Inhwan Oh, among others. He has also presented work with Artists Space and Art in General in New York, The Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia. He has also contributed writing to catalogues for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.


Susan Hapgood is director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) in NY, and former curator at the American Federation of Arts. She has curated exhibitions periodically, which have included Flux Attitudes, Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62, and Video Divertimento, and has written articles and reviews for various catalogues and publications.


Isolde Brielmaier is the co-founder and co-director of Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art, and specializes in exhibitions, scholarship, strategic planning, digital strategy, and social impact initiatives. She received her PhD in art history from Columbia University.


Catherine Morris has been an independent curator since 1996. Exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include “Confrontations: The Guerrilla Art ActionGroup, 1969-1976,” at Printed Matter at DIA, New York; “Food,” at WhiteColumns, New York; “Fort Greene, Brooklyn: A Social and Architectural Historyof a Neighborhood,” at A:D/B Project Space, Brooklyn, New York; “Gloria:Another Look At Feminist Art in the 1970s.” at White Columns, New York. Morris was awarded a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for independent curating and writing in 2004, and is the Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okalahoma.