Join Minneapolis-based curators Sara Cluggish (Director of FD13 Residency for the Arts) and Pavel Pyś (Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center) for a curatorial masterclass. Drawing on their professional experiences working with performance and interdisciplinary practices in small and large institutions, they will discuss projects that informed their approaches to curating.
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Sara Cluggish is Director of FD13 in Minneapolis/St. Paul, a nomadic event-based residency programme. Over the past eight years, she has developed a research and commissioning focus on moving-image and performance work. As Associate Curator (USA) at Site Gallery in Sheffield, she is curating a newly commissioned moving-image work by Daria Martin, based on Franz Kafka’s short story ‘A Hunger Artist’. She was formerly Assistant Curator at Nottingham Contemporary, and has worked in Chisenhale Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BFA in Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and teaches art history at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a contributor to ArtReview, ArtReview Asia, Frieze, L’Officiele Arte Italia, and The Third Rail.
Pavel S. Pyś is Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where he contributed to the three-year Interdisciplinary Initiative, bringing its Visual Arts and Performing Arts Departments into close collaboration. His recent exhibitions include The Body Electric, Elizabeth Price, and I Am You, You Are Too. Between 2011 and 2015, he was Exhibitions and Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. He has contributed to solo exhibitions of David Diao, Robert Filliou, Christine Kozlov, Katrina Palmer, Vladimir Stenberg, and Sturtevant, as well as group exhibitions Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa in 2015, The Event Sculpture in 2014, Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture in 2013; 1913: The Shape of Time in 2012 at the Henry Moore Institute; We Will Live, We Will See, 2011 at the Zabludowicz Collection; and To See an Object, To See the Light in 2011 at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. His writing has appeared in ArtReview, Mousse, Frieze, and Art Monthly Australia.