[BCMA] Curating Carnival: A Talk by Claire Tancons

Wed Mar 9 14:05:09 PST 2011

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Subject: 	Curating Carnival: A Talk by Claire Tancons
Date: 	Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:30:32 -0500
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*Curating Carnival*

A Talk by Claire Tancons

*March 16, 2011, 7 PM*
303 East 8th Avenue
Vancouver, Canada

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Karyn Olivier, /Grey Hope/, in SPRING, 90-min procession curated by 
Claire Tancons for Gwangju Biennale 08, September 5, 2008,  May 18 
Democratic Square and Geumnaro, Gwangju, South Korea. Photograph by 
Akiko Ota

*Western Front* is pleased to be hosting a public talk by *Claire 
Tancons*. As an independent curator and scholar, Claire Tancons has been 
conducting historical research and producing curatorial projects which 
reframe the cultural positioning of Carnival, protest movements and 
other processional traditions.  As one of the curators of the 7th 
Gwangju Biennale (2008), she organized /SPRING/, a 90-minute procession 
inspired by the May 18, 1980 uprising in South Korea.  As a guest 
curator for CAPE 09, the 2nd Cape Town Biennial (2009), she organized /A 
Walk Into the Night/, a 60-minute procession which was based on the Cape 
Town Carnival and set against the background of the forced removals of 
the apartheid era. Tancons spent 2009 traveling and conducting research 
in over twenty countries in the Caribbean, South and West Africa and 
Europe conducting research for a large-scale project on contemporary 
carnival and processional arts for CAC New Orleans and other venues 
(slated to open in 2013).

*Curating Carnival* is co-presented by Fillip 
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whose forthcoming issue, Fillip 13, will feature a conversation between 
Claire Tancons and Western Front exhibitions curator Jesse McKee.  The 
article, entitled /On Carnival and Contractual Curating/, offers a 
deeper look at the theories and methodologies that Tancons uses to 
produce her live exhibition projects. The public talk at Western Front 
will offer a broad view of the research that Tancons has been conducting 
in the past few years and also addresses a forthcoming project she is 
preparing for the first iteration of the Harlem Biennial in 2012.

*Claire Tancons* has held research and curatorial positions at the 
International Center of Photography where she contributed to /Only Skin 
Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self / (2004), at the Walker Art 
Center where she provided curatorial assistance to /How Latitudes Become 
Forms: Art in a Global Age/ (2003) and the Paula Cooper Gallery where 
she organized /Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky’s Path is Prologue: Rebirth 
of a Nation/ (2004). Tancons has also organized exhibitions at 
non-profit art organizations in New York such as Artists Space, /Robin 
Rhode: The Score/, 2005, The Kitchen, /Ralph Lemon: The efflorescence of 
Walter/, 2007 and The Rotunda Gallery, /Mas’: From Process to 
Procession/, 2007, as well as in Port of Spain, Trinidad, /Lighting the 
Shadow: Trinidad in and out of Light/, 2004. She has written for Nka, 
Third Text and Small Axe as well as for a host of exhibition catalogues 
and lectures and publishes regularly about her work on Carnival at 
conferences worldwide. Tancons holds an MA in Museum Studies from the 
École du Louvre in Paris, an MA in Art History from the Courtauld 
Institute in London and is a former curatorial fellow of the Whitney 
Museum Independent Study Program.  A native of Guadeloupe, French West 
Indies, Tancons currently lives and works in New Orleans.

/The Western Front gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada 
Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of 
British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, Direct Access Gaming, our 
members and volunteers. The Western Front is a member of the Pacific 
Association of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC) and the Independent Media Arts 
Alliance (IMAA)./

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