Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College announces less like an object more like the weather an exhibition on view March 24–May 26, 2013.
Showcasing the curatorial work of CCS Bard master’s degree candidates. less like an object more like the weather will include 15 solo and group exhibitions featuring the work of more than 54 established and emerging contemporary artists working in a variety of media.
The fourteen participating students have elected to present their individual curatorial projects simultaneously in the Hessel Museum of Art. As an unprecedented gesture of institutional engagement through collectivity, all exhibitions and adjacent programming come together under one title.
The exhibitions in less like an object more like the weather are:
CROSS//ROADS
Artists: Willie Birch and Liam Gillick
Curated by Robin Wallis Atkinson
Don’t blame anyone
Artists: Bruce Nauman, Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Griffa, Al Taylor, Nicolás Paris, and Julio Cortázar
Curated by Juana Berrío
Flip The Script
The newly commissioned dance Reverse to Reverence by Vanessa Anspaugh is a collaboration with performers Aretha Aoki, Lindsay Clark, Lydia Okrent, and Mary Read, with audio by JD Samson.
Curated by Olga Dekalo
Persona Ficta
Artists: Tania Bruguera & Jota Castro, Kristin Lucas, Dread Scott, and Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Curated by Cora Fisher
Landing Field: Vito Acconci and Yve Laris Cohen
Curated by Sarah Fritchey
Blueprints
Artists: Trisha Brown, Peter Halley, Sean Paul, and Nick Relph
Curated by Stephanie Harris
None the Wiser
Participants: Jessica Baran, Matt Mullican, Carlos Reyes, and John Smith
Curated by Marie Heilich
Terms & Conditions of Use
Artists: Owen Mundy, Deborah Stratman, Brad Troemel & Jon Vingiano, and Commodify, Inc.
Curated by Sarah Higgins
We took the image and put the sound too loud
Contributors: Shumon Basar, Jean Marie Casbarian, An-My Lê, and Michael Rakowitz
Curated by Fawz Kabra
The Very Quick of the Word
Artist: Ken Okiishi
Curated by Annie Godfrey Larmon
Unless Otherwise Noted
With contributions by John Cullinan, Ivana Králíková & Marta Dauliute, Falke Pisano, Reto Pulfer, Arden Sherman, Rebecca Stephany, and Julia Valle
Curated by Marina Noronha
The Ecstasy of the Newness of the Image (or
the Communicability of an Unusual One)
Artists: Trisha Donnelly, Analia Saban, and Gedi Sibony
Curated by Tara Ramadan
Are You In?
Architectural Collective: Zuloark
Curated by María Montero Sierra
Point of Sale
Designer: Studio Manuel Raeder
Curated by Karly Wildenhaus
Object Permanence
Artists: Anne Collier, Roe Ethridge, Mona Hatoum, Jenny Holzer, Guerrilla Girls, Wade Guyton, Robert Morris, and Andrea Zittel
Curated by Robin Wallis Atkinson, Cora Fisher, Sarah Fritchey, and Marie Heilich
Student-curated projects at CCS Bard are made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends.
Center for Curatorial Studies
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
www.bard.edu/ccs