Lecture series as part of Isolation Room / Gallery Kit Project
11 Mar - 13 Mar 15
The lecture is scheduled to coincide with American Week, organised by the US Embassy in Baku.
YARAT Contemporary Art Space Main Office, Port Baku.
DANA TURKOVIC
11th March 2015, 19:30
THE MATRYOSHKA MODEL AND OTHER CURATORIAL PROJECTS
In her own words: "A talk about how I relate the structure of a Russian Matryoshka doll to how I think about the act of curating, using the structure of layering, stacking and embedding as a metaphor for some of my ideas. The lecture will essentially discuss my entire career in curating to date and chart the development of my curatorial ideas using this model. Then I will move on, more specifically, to how ‘Isolation Room/Gallery Kit’ will function as a project."
DANIEL MCGRATH
13th March 2015, 19:00
REVENGE 101 LECTURE
In this one hour class, art history and curatorial studies are analysed through a ‘revenge’ themed exhibition and a video projection organised in the spirit of a tele-course lecture. The course lecture articulates a text written by one of the accusers of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The presentation in the video explores the theme of crime, vengeance and vandalism through images from popular culture, art history, cinema, and memorable moments in photojournalism, all depicting both famous and infamous acts of revenge and aggression against works of art. This combination plays with the ideas of themed research, convoluted art lectures, ambitious curatorial endeavours, and exhibition design in a humorous and uncanny way.
About The Curators
Dana Turkovic is Curator of Exhibitions at Laumeier Sculpture Park. She is also an adjunct professor in the art department at Webster University. In 2005, she received her Master of Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in curatorial studies. Though she spent many years as the senior designer for the UCLA Hammer Museum, she has since turned her attention to creative curatorial endeavours. She has organised exhibitions in Athens (Greece), Los Angeles at Monte Vista Projects, in alternative spaces in London and Oxford in the United Kingdom, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, Boots Contemporary Art Space, Ellen Curlee Gallery, White Flag Projects and Schmidt Contemporary Art. She has written for publications such as Art US and Review magazine. She lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
Daniel McGrath is an adjunct professor in the art department at Lindenwood University in St. Louis. In 2005 he received his Master of Arts from King’s College, University of London. In 2000 he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from UCLA. He is co-director of ISOLATION ROOM / GALLERY KIT, was co-director of Sweetboy Projects in Los Angeles and has organised exhibitions in Los Angeles, St. Louis and the United Kingdom. He is a contributing art writer for Art Papers, Art US, Review, Sculpture and St. Louis Magazine. He has published essays on the work of Korean artist Fi Jae Lee, local painter Jaime Adams, and book reviews for the Imperial War Museum in London. He has exhibited his work at Hunter College MFA Studios, New York; Office Space, Los Angeles; Sweetboy Projects, Los Angeles; Pirate, Burford, UK; PSTL, St. Louis; and the Hunt Gallery, St. Louis. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri, and is the director of Duet, a curatorial project in St. Louis.
