The FHI Social Practice Lab and Duke Vice Provost for the Arts Collateral Fund hope you can join us for:

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Candice Hopkins / Curator, Documenta 14
Public Lecture: Visual Practices & Curatorial Theories on Sound and Global Indigenous Art
Thu Jan 26, 6:30-7:30pm
Nasher Museum (University Classroom), Durham, NC.

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Candice Hopkins, a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon, Canada, is an independent curator and writer now based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a curator for documenta 14, which will open in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany in 2017. Her writings on history, Indigenous art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The Fillip Review, Canadian Art Magazine and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others. Her recent essays and presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for the documenta 14 edited issue of South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectured widely including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. In 2012, Hopkins was invited to present a keynote lecture on the topic of the “sovereign imagination” for dOCUMENTA(13) together with curator Hetti Perkins.

Hopkins’ collaborative curatorial projects include the exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, the National Gallery of Canada’s largest survey of recent Indigenous art, co-curated with Greg Hill and Christine Lalonde and Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a multi-venue exhibition in Winnipeg, Canada on Indigenous futurism co-curated with Steven Loft, Lee-Ann Martin and Jenny Western. While the Director and Curator of the Exhibitions Programme at Western Front she organized the exhibitions Before the Internet: Networks and Art (with Peter Courtmanche); The F Word (on feminism) with Alissa Firth-Eagland; Kits for an Encounter (with Marisa Jahn); Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk (with Robert Blackson) and the first solo exhibition of Paul Chan in Canada.

In 2014 she was invited to organize the SITE Santa Fe biennial exhibition, Unsettled Landscapes together with curators Lucía Sanromán, Irene Hoffman and Janet Dees. She has held curatorial positions at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Western Front Society, and The Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre. In 2015, she received the prestigious Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.
About the Collateral Series series:

Selected for the two prestigious UNC-CH/Duke Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorships for 2016-2018, artists Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) and Nina Chanel Abney will be visiting the NC Triangle area and both campuses on several occasions, lecturing and working with students, faculty, and staff on projects in and out of the classroom. Some of Nina Chanel Abney’s events are also organized by the Nasher Museum in conjunction with her large solo exhibition there, Royal Flush.

To strengthen the opportunities provided by the Keohane Professorship and its deliberate focus on social engagement, the Vice Provost for the Arts Collateral Fund was established at Duke to accompany and complement these regular visits by the Keohane Professors in the same period (2016-2018). Offering presentations, workshops, and projects with key figures of contemporary art and social art practice, including artists, curators, critics, and scholars, the collateral series is organized by the FHI Social Practice Lab and its director, artist and Duke professor Pedro Lasch. All of the following visits will have public components, as well as intimate interactions with students from both campuses. The Collateral Fund Series will continue through 2018. The FHI Social Practice Lab series also includes public presentations led by graduate and undergraduate students. Student presenters will be announced on our website and social media channels (Facebook) on the week before the listed date.