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Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (CCS Bard) presents From 199A to 199B.Liam Gillick and Anti-Establishment

Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (CCS Bard) presents From 199A to 199B:Liam Gillick and Anti-Establishment on view June 23–December 21, 2012.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard), which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary year, has announced the opening of two major summer exhibitions: From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick, curated by Tom Eccles, CCS Bard Executive Director, and Anti-Establishment, a group exhibition curated by Johanna Burton, CCS Bard Graduate Program Director. The opening reception for both exhibitions will take place on Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 1–5pm, as part of CCS Bard’s Anniversary Weekend.

On view at the Hessel Museum of Art, From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick, is a survey of Gillick’s work from the early 1990s that pushed for a new awareness of how art institutions function. Curated by Tom Eccles, CCS Bard Executive Director, this exhibition includes many works that are being shown for the first time in the United States. The exhibition will revisit a formative period of Gillick’s production in Europe—particularly France, Germany, Italy, and England—prior to his move to New York in 1998. It will offer a specifically selected survey of Gillick’s seminal projects and installations that challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art and its methods and practices during the 1990s. Considering the relationship between the artist, the institution, and the audience as mutually co-dependent in the creation of meaning, Gillick created situations in which the outcome was incomplete without involving the institution and questioning the expanded role of the exhibition visitor.

Curated by Johanna Burton, CCS Bard Graduate Program Director, and on view in the CCS Bard Galleries, Anti-Establishment includes the work of Wynne Greenwood, Trajal Harrell, H.E.N.S. (Arlen Austin & Jason Boughton), Jacqueline Humphries, Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly, Chelsea Knight (with Elise Rasmussen), Pam Lins, Scott Lyall, Tere O’Connor, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Pierce, Elisabeth Subrin, and YES! Association. The works in Anti-Establishment investigate artistic practices that, in various ways, radically utilize and recommit to the notion of “the institution,” while demanding new functions and effects of them. Institutions are very often discussed via shorthand, conflated with the “establishment”—monolithic, static, and hierarchical societal systems against which avant-garde and countercultural productions can be seen. Yet, this exhibition sets the two apart, arguing for institutions as more limber sites, perpetually de- and re-constructed by those that create, inhabit, and dismantle them.

A series of live events will take place in conjunction with Anti-Establishment on June 23, 2012 and throughout the fall.

Center for Curatorial Studies and
Hessel Museum of Art
Bard College, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
T 845 758 7598
[email protected]
www.bard.edu/ccs

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