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> From: ICF <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 24 October 2008 16:25:19 BST
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> Subject: ICF event at Nottingham
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> International Curators Forum
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> Friday, 31 October 2008, 14.00–16.00
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> New Art Exchange
> 39–41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6BE, +44 115 924 8630
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> British Art Show 7
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> This is a collaboration between the British Art Show (BAS) and The New
> Art Exchange Gallery in Nottingham. The BAS is a major survey
> exhibition organised every five years to showcase contemporary British
> art. Each time it is organised the show tours to three UK cities. The
> last exhibition in the series, referred to as BAS6, was touring a
> number of major cities in the UK in 2005 and 2006. BAS has become so
> large that it usually requires a number of venues to accommodate it.
> As a snapshot of contemporary British art the exhibition has some
> equivalence to the biennial exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of
> American Art. The exhibition is normally selected by three people who
> are appointed for their knowledge of contemporary art. Previously
> these have been artists and critics, but more recently they have been
> selected from curators.
>
> The New Art Exchange in Hyson Green, Nottingham, is the UK’s only
> gallery outside London dedicated to black and Asian artists. Housing
> public galleries, workshop spaces, rehearsal rooms and offices, as
> well as a café and shop, it is hoped the centre will become the UK’s
> ‘very best’ for multicultural arts. The ICF has been invited to curate
> a discussion on the issues underpinning the evolution of the BAS. Like
> Documenta this will evolve over a five-year period, allowing for new
> configurations and diverse approaches to the challenge of presenting a
> national survey. What is strategically significant is that the
> exhibition tours to partner cities that raise the resources to host
> the exhibition. For BAS7 one of the host cities is Plymouth, which has
> not previously benefited from an exhibition of this scale, raising the
> question of how infrastructural challenges impact on the curatorial
> choices. These and an array of questions will aim to navigate a path
> through issues that have, perhaps, been left unanswered since the last
> exhibition.
>
> Speakers: David A. Bailey, Jason Bowman, Claire Doherty, Alex
> Farquharson, Hew Locke (tbc), Roger Malbert, Sandy Nairne, Mark Nash
> (tbc), Andrea Schlieker
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> www.internationalcuratorsforum.org.uk
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
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CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
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