NEW YORK

New York Programs

Throughout the year ICI presents free, public events in New York, including conversations between curators and artists, panel discussions, small press events, screenings, and reading sessions. They provide access to international curatorial practices and highlight local individuals and collectives whose practice and research align with our mission. New York Programs connect with the ideas taken up by our programs around the world, including questions of accessibility and inclusivity; indigeneity and rootedness in place; the modern museum in the global era; and gender, race, and representation.

Events take place at ICI New York, located at 401 Broadway, or at partner art institutions across the city. They are scheduled and announced throughout the year. Check ICI’s website for details and updates. UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Tuesday, March 10, 6:30-8pm Pablo José Ramírez ICI New York

Pablo José Ramírez will speak about the relationship between indigeneity, Mestizaje and contemporary art, from a comparative perspective. Ramírez will also discuss some of his recent projects including: his research around Garifuna Cultures in the Central American Caribbean; his editorial ideas around non-western sonic cultures with the curatorial platform Infrasonica, and his work as Adjunct Curator at Tate Modern. He was the sixth recipient of the ICI/CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean in 2019.

Wednesday, April 22, 6:30–8pm Wanda Nanibush James Gallery, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave., New York

Wanda Nanibush will present on her work, research, and the development of new curatorial ideas and displays within Indigenous practice. Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator based in Toronto, Ontario, where she serves as the Curator of Canadian and Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Organized in partnership with CUNY’s PhD Program in Art History and the James Gallery at the Graduate Center.

ICI’s New York public programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Talking to Action: Art and Politics in the Americas, Panel Discussion, September 26, 2019. Organized by Pratt Manhattan, this event brought Bill Kelley, Jr., curator of ICI’s traveling exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas, together with scholar Jennifer S. Ponce de León, in a conversation moderated by Macarena Gómez-Barris, cultural critic. They discussed the types of exchanges that exist between artists and researchers featured in the exhibition, blurring the lines between object making, political and environmental activism, community organizing, and performance.

Donald Judd Interviews Marathon Reading, October 19, 2019. Organized in partnership with the Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, this day-long reading celebrated the new publication Donald Judd Interviews. ICI Collaborators including Barbara London, Juliana Steiner, and Sally Tallant read from historical interviews with Judd. The reading of interviews, sourced from over four decades, were interspersed with archival audio recordings of the original interviews, selected in conversation with co-editor of Donald Judd Interviews, Caitlin Murray.

Soft and Wet: Publication Launch & Conversation, November 16, 2019. ICI and EFA hosted a closing reception and launch of Soft and Wet, a publication reflecting on the exhibition of the same title curated by Sadia Shirazi. The evening featured readings of excerpts from the Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States (1980) catalog by Kazuko Miyamoto, Howardena Pindell, and Judy Blum Reddy, and a conversation about “Third World Women Artists” in the 1970s and 80s and the linkages with Soft and Wet.

The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77, January 27, 2020. Curator and scholar, Oluremi Onabanjo spoke with renowned artist Marilyn Nance about Nance’s photographic archive of FESTAC 77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture held in Lagos in 1977. Nance documented the historic celebration of Pan-African art and culture through more than 1,500 images, which she carefully archived and protected for years. The two recounted how their meeting in South Africa led to their collaboration on the resurfacing of the archive, and the production of an upcoming publication of these photographs. This event was organized in collaboration with Denniston Hill.