Candice Hopkins
(Documenta 14, Sakahan, Toronto Biennial, and SITE Santa Fe Curator)
in conversation with FHI Social Practice Lab Director Pedro Lasch.
with a response from artist and Duke Art, Art History and Visual Studies associate professor Shambhavi Kaul.
Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer of Tlingit descent originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. She is Senior Curator of the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-curator of the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada. She was a part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany and a co-curator of the major exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, and the 2014 SITElines biennial, Unsettled Landscapes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing is published widely and her recent essays and presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectures internationally including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and the 2016 the Prix pour un essai critique sur l’art contemporain by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco. She is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
Free and open to all, anywhere in the world
Registration link, and full calendar with all guests and links to bios included below
20-22 The Ongoing Biennial – A Weekly Conversation Cycle with International Curators
Every Wednesday 1-2pm (EST/GMT-5)
Jan 27th and May 5th, 2021
Organized by Pedro Lasch and the FHI Social Practice Lab with support from the Franklin Humanities I World Arts Initiative at Duke University, this Conversation Cycle is part of a larger program entitled ’20-22 The Ongoing Biennial’. In person visits with some of our guests will also be presented at a later stage in collaboration with the the AAHVS Department and the Nasher Museum of Art.
Set in the context of an unprecedented pandemic, global shutdowns, and the rethinking of every aspect of exhibition making, our remote conversations will include curators and other international arts professionals. The first year of the public program will focus on short online dialogues with individual guests. Our one hour long remote events will begin with a casual interview, focusing on the particular trajectory and ideas of each guest in the series, followed by comments from a respondent and questions from the audience. Within this format, we also hope to provide an opportunity for joint reflection on these highly unusual times. Programming for the second year will be announced at a time of greater certainty.
One-time registration at this link will give you access to all of these free and public events:
https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-uhrDgiE9dKfiHakJ_kA58R76wSVlH9
See full calendar below and click on guest names to see bios and more information for each week:
Jan 27 – Ralph Rugoff
Feb 3 – Cuauhtémoc Medina
Feb 10 – Trevor Schoonmaker
Feb 17 – Candice Hopkins
Feb 24 – Lucia Pietrioiusti
Mar 3 – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Mar 10 [Break]
Mar 17 – Andrea Giunta
Mar 24 – Yuko Hasegawa
Mar 31 – Miguel López
Apr 7 – José Roca
Apr 14 – Gabi Ngcobo
Apr 21 – Hoor Al Qasimi
Apr 28 – Rujeko Hockley
May 5 – Ruangrupa