We sit down with curator Rachel Adams to talk about institutional evolution, artists as infrastructure, and how curatorial practice shifts between museums and biennials. Rachel reflects on working with artists like Cauleen Smith, Liz Magic Laser, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, the power of slow curation, and why she’s drawn to hybrid spaces that defy the market.
We sit down with a delegation of Irish curators—Michele Horrigan (Askeaton Contemporary Arts), Michael Hill (Temple Bar Gallery + Studios), and Mark O’Gorman (The Complex)—to unpack what it means to build artist-centered institutions on an island without a commercial art market. From weather-worn banana warehouses to smoke-machine-filled nightclubs, these curators share space-making tactics, post-colonial entanglements, and the challenges of caring for artists without selling to collectors.
R&D is a project space directed by Abby Johnson and Austin Swearengin, artists/curators devoted to experimental art, performance, and installations in a sub-urban context. While my writing bridges cultural contexts within and without the too stringent boundaries...
1. Mariposa Divina: La Basurita June 27, 7-10PM Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St 2. Vanessa Damilola Macaulay: Breathing Race into the Machine June 2, 6-8PM International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524 N Lake Shore Dr 3. Jane Leipold & Alex...
1. Bibiana Saucedo: Dreaming of Pilsen June 21, 6-9PM Sentrock Studio: 2059 W 18th St 2. Alanna Huck-Scarry & Ella Rinaldi: Tussock Clasp June 20, 6-10PM Positive Space Studios: 3520 W Fullerton Ave 3. Martyna Alexander: The Distant Now June 14,...
