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FEL: Curatorial Fellowship–Postcolonial, sexuality & race studies

Fellowship Deadline Today (Feb. 15, 2016) for Applications for a Curatorial Fellowship for Postcolonial Perspectives on LBTIQ-Heritages

Within the framework of the ‚International Museum Fellowship’ program run by the German Federal Culture Foundation, the Gay Museum will announce a fellowship on April 1st, 2016.
With its highly regarded exhibitions, archival holdings, numerous contributions to research and more than thirty-five (mostly volunteer) staff, the Schwules Museum* has, since its founding in 1985, grown into one of the world’s largest and most significant institutions for archiving, researching and communicating the history and culture of LGBTIQ communities. Different exhibitions and events have taken diverse approaches to lesbian, gay, trans*, bi- and intersexual and queer biographies, themes and concepts in history, art and culture.
In over 150 special exhibitions shown over the past 30 years, the museum has presented a broad spectrum of perspectives on the history of homosexual cultures. Being over 500m2, the museum has at its disposal one of the largest archives in the world, which includes more than 1000 metres of archive material (files, newspaper cut outs, videos, posters, photographs, paintings, sculptures and so on). Within the framework of the project, specially chosen items from the archives and selected exhibition projects should undergo a critical examination. Using an intersectional perspective, the ways in which European colonialism was interwoven with cultural discourses of homosexual emancipation should be examined. Questions should be posed regarding the ways in which exhibition practices and collection strategies engage in critical self-reflection.
The results will be presented in an exhibition or as an intervention in the new permanent exhibition which is currently being planned. This presentation will be part of a program which places particular value on participative practices. The proposal is directed at academics and curators from outside of Germany with the following profile:
– A completed degree in cultural studies or a related field.
– In-depth knowledge of Gender Studies/ Queer Theory/ Postcolonial Studies/ Critical Whiteness Studies.
– Experience in archive-based research.
– Curatorial experience, particularly in the area of cultural history.
– Knowledge of Microsoft Office, including (archival) data base programs.
– Languages: Written and spoken English, German to C1 level.
The Fellowship involves full-time work (100%) for a duration of 18 months, remuneration is based on TV-L 13/1, and work will be based in Berlin.

Please send your application including all your details as a single document, maximum 5 MB with your name included in the heading (your name.pdf) before February, 15th, 2016 to: jobs@schwulesmuseum.de.Schwules Museum website

REV: Kienholz’s Five Car Stud — anti-racism, 1969

Here’s the correct link:

Kienholz on view in London

On Five Car Stud by Ed Kienhilz

Review of Kienholz’s work, including the important anti-racist installation of 1969-72,
Five-Car Stud

CONF: CAA 2016 Session: “Race, Remembrance, and Reconciliation: International Dialogue in National Museums”

Race, Remembrance, and Reconciliation: International Dialogue in National Museums
Chair: Julie L. McGee, University of Delaware

The year 2016 marks the opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s newest museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Framed as constructive and palliative, for remembrance, race dialogue, reconciliation, and healing, the NMAAHC seeks to foreground African American history and culture in a broader global context inclusive of freedom struggles.

In this open format session, scholars, curators, artists, and educators embrace the complexity and contradictions embedded in visions of museology and arts and heritage management as agents of emancipation and social repair. Of concern is the performative nature of museums in the twenty-first century vis-à-vis race, remembrance, and reconciliation—potentially ambiguous yet on-going engagements. What roles do objects, history, or cultural heritage perform under such curatorial and museological mandates and visions? How do changing sociopolitical and cultural landscapes and challenges to representational politics shape museum practices? Deep spatial memory, in the USA and South Africa, and Black centered cultural institutions and programming are considered. Designed as a forum led by thought-provoking contributors, this session offers an open conversation on the intersection of race, remembrance, and reconciliation in cultural institutions.

Speakers:

NMAAHC and the Deep Memory of Black Spaces
Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University

Remembrance: An African American Museum Dialogue
David C. Driskell, University of Maryland, College Park

Museums and Reconciliation during the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of the Studio Museum in Harlem
Susan E. Cahan, Yale University

Museums for ALL: Toward a Critical Approach to the Re-conceptualization of Museums
Wayne Alexander, Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town

Thursday, Feb. 4, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Salon 3, Lobby Level
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

http://conference.collegeart.org/programs/race-remembrance-and-reconciliation-international-dialogue-in-national-museums/

Another Olympia

Luxembourg performance artist Deborah de Robertis’ in dialogue with Manet:

Artist arrested for posing nude in front of Musee d’Orsay’s Olympia (1863) by Edouard Manet

EXH: “Circle of Friends” exhibition opening Jan. 23, 2016, Washington, DC

Circle of Friends

 

 

WELLMAN exh_2016-page-001

 

 

Alper Initiative for Washington Art at American Museum

 

 

CONF: Black Portraiture Revisited II – Feb. 19-20, 2016 @NYU

See Black Portraiture Conference @NYU Feb. 2016

The Art of Change: Conversations with Ford Foundation Fellows–Live Webcast, Fri., Jan. 15, 2016, 9am-5pm Eastern Time

Please join us for a live webcast of “The Artists of Change,” a daylong forum with our Art of Change Fellows—13 creative visionaries working at the forefront of art and social change. Over the course of the year, the Fellows have pursued independent projects on critical issues such as surveillance, climate change, drug policy and capitalism, soft power, diversity in the arts, social networks, and the power of technology. Tune in as they share their work and spark lively conversation—with the audience and each other—around the ideas they are exploring.

To watch the live webcast, visit artofchange.is.
Join the conversation: #ArtofChange

See The Art of Change Webcam 2016

Join the conversation with Eungie Joo, Thelma Golden, Carrie Mae Weems, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, and others.

 

 

 

 

 

ACRAH at CAA 2016/Washington DC

See you next month at the College Art Association annual conference in Washington, D.C, to be held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel for ACRAH’s session:

“Beyond the Veil: An Inside Look at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture”

Saturday, February 6, 2016, 12:30-2 PM

See: Beyond the Veil session info

The session will be held in WASHINGTON 1 (EXHIBITION LEVEL) of the CAA Conference Hotel:

Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC, 20008

Tel. 202 302-2000

Travel to the CAA Conference Hotel

CAA 2016 Conference Registration Info at: Attending ACRAH Session at CAA 2016/Washington DC

“How Advocates of African American Art Are Advancing Racial Equality in the Art World”

See: ARTSY, Jan. 12, 2016