Resources
IKT x Walter’s Cube Workshop on Virtual Curating
The workshop covered the fundamentals of virtual curating. Examples of successful projects illustrated how virtual platforms can enhance educational engagement and bring visibility to art in challenging contexts. Participants also learned how to prepare curatorial concepts and organize artwork data for creating a virtual exhibition.
Symposium 2023 - Art & Advanced Technologies
Dive into conversations concerning the dynamic applications of digital technologies, NFTs, crypto art, and more, as we explore the intersection of art and technology. Gain valuable insights from esteemed experts in the field!
Symposium - Global Appalachia
Over the decades, Appalachia has been systematically mined and marginalized, yet one can readily find parallels to other “hinterland” spaces all over the globe. Mineral and coal mining have polluted the environment not only in Appalachia but also in regions from Siberian Russia to the Amazon rainforests of Colombia and Brazil. The opioid epidemic that has ravaged our region has also decimated vulnerable populations in areas from Eastern Europe to Southern Africa. Meanwhile, the CEOs and shareholders of mining and pharmaceutical corporations whitewash their wealth through philanthropic causes which, in the case of the arts, enriches them further through the enhancement of private collections.
The Role of NFTs in Cultural Institutions
The webinar focused on the role of NFTs in public cultural institutions with the implications and impact on museum practices, offering new points of view from collectors, galleries and artists.
IKT Congress 2022: Podcast series with Cathy Byrd
CURATORS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE AT IKT KENTUCKY
With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the Covid epidemic and a global economic recession have not weakened their resolve to navigate the field on their own terms. Viewing challenges as opportunities, these women are channeling their creative freedom into projects that maximize resources and engage new communities.
What sparked this story: In September 2022, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art welcomed more than 40 new members during IKT’s annual Congress in Kentucky. Most are independent curators. Listen to find out what motivated this shift.
Voices: Monique Long, Juste Kostikovaite, Lindsey Cummins, Amethyst Rey Beaver, Sarah Burney, Claire Schneider
LURE OF LOCAL ARTS IN APPALACHIA
In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art make their way to Kentucky, in the United States. Our first days are packed with urban experiences — museum, gallery, private collection, and studio visits, a symposium — and sunset tours of two outdoor sculpture collections.
A small group continues the adventure on a road trip that takes us to the far eastern edge of Kentucky. As we cross the state, we learn firsthand the challenges of growing up and producing culture in Appalachia. We bear witness to creative resilience and community in remote spaces and places where rich stories are told through art, film, music, and theater.
Voices: Orlando Maiike Gouwenberg, Jessica Bennett Kincaid, Carolina Rubens, Jeff Chapman Crane, Sharman Crane, Kate Handslik
GLOBAL APPALACHIA—WHERE CULTURE AND GEOGRAPHY SHAPE COMMUNITY
In 2022, members and guests of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) travel from around the world to Kentucky, in the Appalachian region of the United States. The uninitiated might consider this a remote context for conversations around international contemporary art. Instead, we find Appalachia a nuanced cultural and geographic space.
The third episode in our IKT Kentucky series explores the evolving and inclusive concept of “Global Appalachia” presented during IKT’s 2022 gathering. Generations of curators, poets, and artists from a world of cultures have found their way across time and space to build communities in this region. Here and now, Global Appalachia is where their 21st century contemporaries continue to shape a boundless future, with a diverse array of perspectives on the meaning of home and tradition.
Voices: Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Frank X Walker, Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido, Vian Sora, Ceirra Evans, Anissa Lewis, Hannah Drake, Karlota Contreras Koterbay, Erin Lee Antonak
ARTiculating Regeneration: Art as Agent for Change. Jan Mun.
Jan Mun is a media artist that creates social sculptures working with digital and living media. The landscape has become her framework to unfold stories about others and herself by using a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest in the form of interactive installations, photography, performance, and bio-art. Working with communities she innovates ideas to be realised through research, chance, and collaboration.
Mun received a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been in exhibitions at The Cathedral at Saint John the Divine, NY; Battery Park, NY; Wave Hill, Bronx; as well as at the ExxonMobil Greenpoint Remediation Project, Brooklyn. She has had residencies at MacDowell Colony, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York Hall of Science, and Newtown Creek Alliance. She is the recipient of awards and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, A Blade of Grass, the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund, Harpo Foundation and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Mun is on the Newtown Creek EPA Superfund Community Advisory Group and Technical Committee and is a Honeybee Conservancy Bee Ambassador.
ARTiculating Regeneration: Art as Agent for Change. Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry.
The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) was founded in 2008 by Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry to leverage the power of art and design to accelerate the global response to climate change.
As the world rises to the climate challenge, vast new sustainable energy and other infrastructures are transforming our visual landscapes and changing the way we live. LAGI brings forward exceptional climate solutions - regenerative monuments to this most important time in human history - that inspire people about the beauty, abundance, and cultural vibrancy of a world that has left behind burning fossil fuels for energy. Open design competitions for Dubai/Abu Dhabi (LAGI 2010), New York City (LAGI 2012), Copenhagen (LAGI 2014), Santa Monica (LAGI 2016), Melbourne (LAGI 2018), Abu Dhabi (LAGI 2019), and Fly Ranch (LAGI 2020) have brought in over 1,300 designs from 80+ countries.
ARTiculating Regeneration: Art as Agent for Change. Adam Sutherland.
Adam Sutherland was appointed Grizedale Arts' Director in March 1999. He was previously director of art.tm, a visual arts organisation in the Scottish Highlands, prior to which he was a visual artist, producer and maker based in London.
Adam leads Grizedale Arts' core development - curating on and off-site projects, liaising between GA and its local communities, developing short, medium and long term strategies for the organisation's survival and working with artists at all stages from concept development to making and producing. He has been instrumental in the career development of numerous artists and curators including Marcus Coates, Bedwyr Williams, juneau/projects, Laure Prouvost, Ceri Hand, Sarah McCrory and Alistair Hudson. Rejecting the traditional desk bound role of the director / curator, Adam makes time for production, making ceramics for installations by Laure Prouvost and others, working on building projects at Lawson Park and prototyping many of the craft initiatives for which GA has become known in the last decade.
Since 2003, Adam has led the strategic and operational development of Grizedale Arts' hill farm headquarters Lawson Park, from a derelict shell to a thriving residency centre where visitors and residents come together in a unique place surrounded by productive and ornamental gardens. With partner Karen, he lives as a residential warden on site, hosting volunteers, guests and visitors there. Their cooking is legendary, with fresh Lawson Park produce and local game a speciality. In 2020, Adam was instrumental in the organisation acquiring The Farmer's Arms at Lowick Green, and beginning its re-invention as a new kind of cultural space.
Additionally to his prodigious output at Grizedale Arts, Adam has curated projects for commissioners such as Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), PS1 / MoMA in New York and Jerwood Visual Arts in London.
ARTiculating Regeneration: Art as Agent for Change. Jason deCaires Taylor.
Jason deCaires Taylor (b. 1974) is a sculptor, environmentalist and professional underwater photographer. Taylor graduated from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture
Taylor has gained international recognition for creating the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies and the first underwater art museum in Mexico. He has gone on to produce over 2000 public sculptural works across the globe from the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. His underwater and tidal sculptures create artificial reefs that provide extensive habitats for marine life and encourage a cross-disciplinary discourse between material science, marine ecologies, tourism and art.
The works explore how manufactured pH neutral materials interact with ecological processes and how their outcomes are informed by geographical environment, offshore depth, water type and temperature. They engender an idea of generation and recovery, and implicate the viewer in the inevitability of change.
He has received numerous sculpture and photography awards, an Ocean Ambassador to DAN (Divers Alert Network), an Ocean Exemplar of The World Ocean Observatory and a featured TED speaker. Taylor was awarded The Global Thinker by Foreign Policy and was described as the Jacques Cousteau of the art world.
ARTiculating Regeneration: Art as Agent for Change. Bill Reed.
Bill is an internationally recognized planning consultant, design process facilitator, lecturer, teacher, and author in sustainability and regeneration. He is a principal of Regenesis, Inc. – a regenerative design, living systems integrator, and education organization. His work centers on creating the framework for and managing an integrative, whole and living system design process. This work is known as Regenerative Development. The objective: to improve the overall quality of the physical, social and spiritual life of our living places and therefore the planet. The more immediate benefits of this process include higher efficiency, lower costs, reduced waste, faster time to market, and the realization of exponential value to the social, ecological, financial and human qualities of a project, the community and its ecosystem.
An author of many technical articles and contributor to multiple books including co-authorship of the seminal work, “Integrative Design Guide to Green Building”; he is a founding Board of Director of the US Green Building Council and one of the co-founders of the LEED Green Building Rating System. In addition to being considered one of the leading thinkers in this field, Bill has also consulted on over two hundred green design commissions - buildings and city master plans. He is also a keynote speaker at major building and design events as well as a guest lecturer to universities throughout Europe, North America, and Oceania including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and UPenn.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE IN CULTURAL SPACES
IKT is collaborating with the Plus Tate and Mostyn to organise an online forum to reflect on the way our buildings, venues and infrastructures (if building-less) can respond and adapt to changed audience interactions and sensibilities, and how these new conditions are implemented in relation to the environmental call for sustainability.
Titled Sustainable Design and Regenerative Architecture in cultural spaces, the panel brings togeher an exciting and diverse roster of speakers including artists, architects and researchers, all of whom are experienced in sustainable art and design practices. The session will be moderated by IKT board member Ombretta Agro' Andruff.
List of speakers:
- Gustav Düsing: architect & artist
- Dehlia Hannah Ph.D.: curator and philosopher of nature
- Andrea Ling: architect, artist, researcher
- Jaya Kader: regenerative architecture expert and advocate SOCIAL CHANGE with KZ Architecture
- Dean Maltz: partner at Shigeru Ban Architects
- Chayya Bhanti: founder and Creative Director at VERTIVER
IKT CONGRESS 2021: CURATING &/IN THE METAVERSE
September 22, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
Will the metaverse become the placeholder for the art institutions or anew deal? How is curating adapting to the new infrastructure?
The panel aims to understand the potential repurposing of curating in the decentralised and decontextualised realities.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: THE GREAT INVOCATION
July 2021, Rotterdam, Netherlands
This footage provides insights into “The Great Invocation”, an exhibition at Garage Rotterdam. The exhibition addresses themes of interconnectedness by considering the legacy of 20th century spirit mediums. It looks to those who sought to become receivers for superphysical entities, channelling information from aether.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: THE RIVER RESIDENCIES
Summer 2021, Limerick, Ireland
Ormston House in Ireland presents the Museum of Mythological Water Beasts, a multi-year project about, along and in the River Shannon. During the 2021 residency programme, the artists and curators respond to the theme of interconnectivity from the perspectives of strategic partnership, geographical location, and community participation.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: ENLACES – NUEVOS ESPECTROS DE CONECTIVIDAD
Summer 2021, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
New spectrum of interconnectivity: it means, for our Pakas, solidarity and cultural action project, formulating new perspectives for cultural management of the Honduran artistic community. We want to propose a diverse and dynamic panorama for contemporary artistic production, such as the creation of virtual platforms that allow collective exchanges.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: HYDROFEMINISM – THE INTERCONECTIVE SPIRIT OF WATER
Summer 2021, Oslo, Norway
A curator talk with LOCUS (Thale Fastvold & Tanja Thorjussen) and Ethan Rafal and Åse Kamilla Aslaksen discussing eco conscious and climate responsive art. Exploring how artists and curators work thematically with ecofeminism ism and hydrofeminism creating ripples in the art world.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: AT WHAT COSTS: SLOW TIME
September 2021, London, UK
This contribution considers slowness in the age of acceleration. Artist Lydia Ourahman’s sonic playlist will form the backbone of this listening experience, whilst curators Hannah Conroy and Ellen Greig hold a space to discuss interconnectivity through labour, economics and art: to reimagine new ways to navigate our working lives.
IKT MINI-CONGRESS 2021 – WESTPHALIA, GERMANY
3 - 5 September 2021
Three institutions hosted this year’s IKT Mini-Congress in Westphalia: Museum Marta Herford, Kunsthalle Osnabrück and the art space hase29. It was a lively in-person gathering of about 20 German members and guests. The video documents the three-day event spread across different exhibitions and projects, as well as short curatorial statement.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION - P. KAUR & A. SYED
2 September 2021, Southampton, UK
Artists, Perminadar Kaur and Alia Syed, discuss interconnectivity in relation to their artistic practice, discussing issues such as hierarchy, border control and UK Government surveillance. Additionally, Kaur and Syed discuss how they have stayed connected to their artistic practice during the global pandemic and national lockdown.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: CAN NFT BE GREEN?
28 September 2021, Potsdam, Germany
The reduction in interconnectivity between the actors and activists of art prevents honest and open discussions. Instead ‘Marketing Machines’ confuse the complex developments. The ‘Green NFT’ is an example of dishonest discourse in the crypto world.
Verona Voigt M.A. in conversation with Prof. Dr Dirk Boll (Christie’s London).
IKT CONGRESS 2021: PLACING INTERCONNECTIVITY
16 September 2021, Milan, Italy
This video is a moment of reflection on urban public space seen as the context of dichotomy, but also of collective sensitivities and requests; and on the possibility of overcoming the feeling of separation between self and other place, in the name of care. Could art become a platform for protagonism, intended as sensitive and active citizenship?
IKT CONGRESS 2021: OFRI CNAANI – LEAKING LANDS
Summer 2021, Cork, Ireland
In six short hours in 2018, a fatal fire brought to an end two centuries’ worth of treasures in Brazil’s nation museum. The institution’s residues of body, data and matter are interconnected, becoming digital through us. They form an ecology of ‘leftovers’ that occupy a space in-between eras and orders – lecture performance followed by a talk with Miguel Amando.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: CHECKING IN - UNAIDED PERSEVERANCE
Summer 2021, Kampala, Uganda
The worst fear is of being confined and you can’t be remembered or recognised, as something familiar by a collective consent. ‘Checking in’ radio is mediating a contemporary view that fosters exchange and supports relationships. It provides the means by which artists can learn differently and become more engaging.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: GENERATING COLLECTIVITIES, ENGAGING LOCALITIES
September 2021, Manila, Philippines / Bandung, Indonesia
Interconnectivity is the making and remaking of networks that allow critical debate and action, enabled by reciprocity and trust. These are connections shaped by localities and informed by exchanges that are vital and responsive to their contexts.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: NEPALI ART – BEYOND THE BORDER
Summer 2021, Kathmandu, Nepal
This video is about the conceptual art activities and dialogues that are taking place around it in the Nepali art scene. The talk focuses on some of the artworks, art activities, movements and exhibitions that took place over the last. 20 years in Nepal.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: THE ANT PROJECT
Summer 2021, Miami, USA
The Ant project is a horizontal structure of interaction inspired by the collective intelligence of ants, where individuals, operating as a collective, achieve remarkable goals that would be impossible for single members on their own. Interconnection strengthens the community of creators by listening and commenting on each other’s projects.
IKT CONGRESS 2021: THE NIBIRU SALON
Summer 2021, Zimbabwe
We gather to commune and to keep connected. At the heart of everything is the desire to invest in various networks and look for possibilities. We are all part of one network and are all connected.
Master Thesis of Stephanie Seidel
In 2010, Stephanie Seidel wrote her master thesis about the foundation of IKT. Her essay is available online in English and German, as well as a timeline and an extensive board history of the former IKT boards.
English Version
German Version