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Lecture by Chus Martinez
Presented as part of CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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The primary concern of Chus Martinez's curatorial practice is the question of how thinking emerges through the substance of art. Her most recent projects have focused on the development of logics that can help us to interpret the role of artistic research in relation to institutional forms and the wider cultural production of knowledge.
Imagination, as a political concept, is at the core of many of her research and exhibition projects. Considered as a faculty of the mind, imagination facilitates not only the emergence of the one who thinks (the theorist, the philosopher, the artist, the curator) but also the emergence of something like a minimal relation, event, or perception of thinking, from which "thinkers" are then affected. Like philosophy, art does not exists to solve problems but to make them appear under a certain form, to keep the mind moving. Art has complete freedom to generate ambiguity.
Martinez is currently chief curator at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and a cocurator of this year´s coming Sao Paulo Biennial. Previously she directed the Frankfurter Kunstverein, which was included in the 2007 Frieze Art Fair with the project A Delicious Feeling of Confidence, which applied the idea of stand-up comedy to art presentation. While completing her master's degree in curatorial studies as a Fulbright fellow at Bard College, Martinez codirected Parkers Box art space in Brooklyn.
Cosponsored by the CCA Wattis Institute and the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice
CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series is supported in part by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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