The Department of Art Theory and Practice is pleased to welcome Dushko Petrovich for a public presentation this fall.
Dushko Petrovich Córdova works primarily in distributed media as a writer, editor, and publisher. He is a co-founder of Paper Monument, which has published numerous critically-acclaimed and bestselling books, including Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment; Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015; and Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts. Under his personal imprint, DME, Petrovich has edited and published Adjunct Commuter Weekly and The Daily Gentrifier, with editions for New York/Los Angeles; Columbus, Ohio; and Philadelphia.
Petrovich’s work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, Gallery 400 in Chicago, Charlottenborg Museum in Copenhagen, and Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. He has also written about art and visual culture for numerous publications including n+1, Bookforum, Art in America, ArtNews and the Boston Globe.
Petrovich taught at Yale University, Boston University, and Rhode Island School of Design before moving to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is chair of the New Arts Journalism department. He serves on the board of the n+1 Foundation, which he chaired from 2013-2015, and he was Director of Communications and Publications for the 2022 edition FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working on a series of paintings based on his screengrabs folder from 2020.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, October 11, 5pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1550
1800 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING ARTIST TALK: PUPPIES PUPPIES (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo)
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo) (b. 1989) is a conceptual, performance and installation artist. Her work often draws on the emotional resonance of found objects and shared experiences, exploring love, mortality, power relations and states of being. Much of her recent work directly reflects her experiences transitioning and integrates the redistribution of financial support and exhibition opportunities from the art world to her community of Trans/GNC/2S + POC.
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki Olivo) lives and works in New York. She is the recent recipient of Toby’s Award, given every two years by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Recent solo exhibitions include “I’m Jade. I’m a trans woman trans womxn trans femme two spirit human being. Life feels long even though it hasn’t been all that long. A brain tumor surgically removed, getting divorced, losing my dad, brain tumor resurgence scare, starting hormone replacement therapy, experiencing sexual assault and rape multiple times and coming out as a woman. This exhibition is a roller coaster of the emotions feelings but also thoughts connections that happened over this span of time... only a little more than a decade. This exhibition covers the span of Puppies Puppies to Jade. It’s hard to get up each morning. My heart aches but I’m happy to be a woman. I’ll try my best to enjoy life even though society makes it difficult. From dust to dust I am but a speck on this planet and I wonder how to use this short life of mine. Trying not to let my trauma take over but still be kind to yourself Jade. This is the end of a decade • a new way of working coming soon. Sincerely, Jade Kuriki Olivo”, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland; BODY FLUID: BLOOD, Remai Modern, Sakatoon, Canada; PLAGUE, Halle für Kunst, Luneberg, Germany; Anxiety, Depression & Triggers, Balice Hertling, Paris, France; Executive Order 9066 (Soul Consoling Tower), Queer Thoughts, New York; Una Mujer Fantástica (A Fantastic Woman), Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany; Andrew D. Olivo 6.7.89-6.7.18, What Pipeline, Detroit, Michigan; Puppies Puppies, XYZ Collective, Tokyo. Her work was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 9th Berlin Biennale and X Nicaraguan Biennale.
*Content trigger warning: nudity, sexual actions, trauma such as rape and violence against trans people.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, April 26, 5pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING ARTIST TALK: Monika Szewczyk
This talk and seminar will together be called Peace offerings. It will be a meditation from my experience on exhibition making, supported by readings and documentation. Rather than thematizing peace, I wish for us to share wisdom from practicing the art of peace (inner and collective). In other words to access the practical dimensions, which inevitably require technique/discipline and sacrifice.
Monika Szewczyk has been director of de Appel in Amsterdam from May 1 2019 to May 1 2022. Previously, she was curator for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2015-2017); Visual Arts Program Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2012-2014); Head of Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (2008–2011); Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2004–2007) and Program Coordinator of the Belkin Satellite, a downtown outpost of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (2001-2003), her alma mater. Having studied International Relations and Art History as well as theatre, film and fine arts at UBC, she went on to lecture, advise and lead seminars that address the specific techniques of art- and history-making found along her own diasporic path. Her work draws on nearly two decades of practice organizing exhibitions and publishing in close dialogue with artists who pose vital and courageous questions – in key instances acting as co-curators, teachers, historians and lyricists themselves. Her own teaching experience began at Emily Carr University in Vancouver (2002-2007) and includes writing mentorship at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2008-2012), political theology seminars at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2011), exhibition study seminars at the University of Chicago (2012-2014) and the gradual evolution of de Appel’s Curatorial Programme curriculum. Her writings and interviews as well as her editorial work can be found in numerous artists’ publications, readers, catalogues and in journals such as South as a State of Mind, e-flux journal online, Mousse Magazine, Artforum and Afterall.
Her work at de Appel has been chronicled in a recent interview by Mirela Baciak for OCULA.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, May 24, 5pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Maite Borjabad Lopez-Pastor
Maite Borjabad López-Pastor is a curator, architect and researcher whose work revolves around diverse forms of critical spatial practices, operating across architecture, art and performance. Having worked with important large cultural institutions, she describes her curatorial practice as “institutional infiltration” engaging at the intersection of those disciplines as well as museum studies and institutional critique.
Maite is currently curator at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum where she is working on a major reinstallation of the museum's collection. Previously as the Neville Bryan Associate Curator of Architecture & Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, she took care of the contemporary collection and led fundamental research initiatives and acquisitions to redefine the collecting strategies since she joined in 2017. In her five years tenure she also curated a number of significant installations and exhibitions including PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (2019), My Building, Your Design: Seven Portraits by David Hartt (2018), Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection (2017-ongoing) and Designs for Different Futures (2019-2021) co-curated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center along with the published cataogue. Her last exhibition with Palestinain artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rhame: If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust (July 2021 - January 2022) presented a multimedia inmersive installation reflecting on ideas of amnesia, erasure, and return within the Palestinian condition. The exhibition’s visceral and material narratives raised timely and urgent questions about the ways history is constructed and continually obliterated and challenged the way museums play a role on this.
Previously she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collaborating on the roof garden commissions and the collection. Other projects as independent curator include the exhibition and book Scenographies of Power: From the State of Exception to the Spaces of Exception (2017) at La Casa Encendida, Madrid or Wet Protocols (2018) at MAO, Ljubljana. She has also taught at the Weitzman Schol of Design, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois Chicago and Columbia University and has shared her research in important forums such as the Fitch Colloquium at Columbia University (2017) – Ex-Situ: On Moving Monuments where she presented “Collecting Architecture and Moving Buildings.” Maite’s writing has appeared in renowned journals as Harvard Design Magazine like her article, “Rerighting” History:The Benito Juarez Community Academy and her work has been celebrated in major media such as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, PIN-UP, Domus, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Terremoto Magazine, La Tempestad or El Cultural.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 13, 5pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL, 60208
