The Labour of Curation | March 2 | UWAG

[Jurakic, Ivan]

The Labour of Curation
Panel discussion
 

Heather & Ivan Morison, The Cleaving. Nuit Blanche 2015, Exhibition C: The Work of Wind, curated by Christine Shaw. Photo: Javin Lau.
 
Wed. March 2, 2016
4:00-5:20pm
 
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
263 Phillip Street
Waterloo, ON
 
Free and open to the public
 
There is increasing attention on labour in contemporary art contexts, from exhibitions about labour to art worker activism. Where, however, does the curator fit in this turn to labour? What is the nature of the work of mounting an exhibition? How might the work that takes place behind the scenes be made visible? What employment patterns characterize the curatorial field? How might the labour of curation be conceptualized and politicized? What is the place of the curator in the wider system of labour relations involved in the presentation of art? And how is the professional status of the curator affected by the diffusion of the terminology of “curation” in the digital era? Join us for a discussion of these questions with curators Ivan Jurakic (UWAG), Srimoyee Mitra (Art Gallery of Windsor), and Christine Shaw (Blackwood Gallery).
 
Panelists
 
Ivan Jurakic is the Director/Curator of the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. He received his MFA from SUNY Buffalo. He has curated numerous exhibitions, sat on the curatorial panel for the 2009 Sobey Art Award, and co-curated Zone C for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013 in Toronto. His writing can be found in numerous gallery publications. He is also a principal of TH&B, an artist collective that collaborates on site-responsive projects addressing the intersection of urban and rural environments. He lives in Hamilton.
 
Srimoyee Mitra is a curator and writer. She has worked as the Art Writer for publications in India such as Time Out Mumbai and Art India Magazine. From 2008-11 she was the Programming Coordinator of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto. In 2015, she edited Border Cultures (Art Gallery of Windsor/Black Dog Publishing), and her writing has appeared in Scapegoat, Fuse, and C Magazine. She is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor. Her most recent exhibition, Wafaa Bilal: 168:01, is currently on view at the Art Gallery of Windsor. 
 
Christine Shaw is Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. With a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University, her practice is committed to curatorial experimentation, applied philosophical inquiry, and creative pedagogy. Her recent curatorial projects include The pen moves across the earth… at the Blackwood Gallery; Migrant Choir at the 2015 Venice Biennale; Carlos Amorales: Black Cloud at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery; and The Work of Wind, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2015.
 
Location
UWAG is located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street, off University Ave. West, behind University Plaza. Limited visitor parking is available in Lots E6.
 
Acknowledgements
Sponsored by the Dean of Arts Office, Wilfrid Laurier University, this panel is part of an event series organized in conjunction with the course Introduction to Creative Industries in the Department of Communication Studies at Laurier. Special thanks to UWAG for generously hosting this event.
 
Contact
Greig de Peuter, Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University | gdepeuter at wlu.ca
 
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