The third iteration of the international contemporary art triennial, Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3) will wrap up its three-month run with several community-based events, including the inaugural Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive: New Orleans. This week-long training program is designed to immerse participants in a rigorous schedule of seminars, conversations and presentations that support the process of developing an idea for an exhibition or program into a full proposal. It will bring together emerging curators from across the American South and around the world for the opportunity to exchange ideas, develop curatorial projects and explore Prospect.3: Notes for Now.
Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), in conjunction with Prospect New Orleans and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (CACNO), the Curatorial Intensive will be the first in the U.S. outside of New York since 2011 and will be part of an ongoing series of curatorial and artistic practice-based programming around the Gulf of Mexico.
The Curatorial Intensive will take place from January 18 – 24, 2015. Seminars, site visits, individual meetings and roundtable discussions will be led by a group of professionals that includes:
· CACNO Chief Curator of Visual Arts Andrea Andersson
· ICI Director of Public Programs and Research María del Carmen Carrión
· New York-based independent curator Tumelo Mosaka
· San Juan-based artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
· Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver
· University of London (Goldsmiths) Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Curator of the 8th Edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA 2015, Dyangani Ose
· ICI Executive Director Renaud Proch
· P.3 Artistic Director and LACMA Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art Franklin Sirmans
· New Orleans-based Independent Curator Claire Tancons
· Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Brooke Davis Anderson
More information is available online.
In addition to the Curatorial Intensive, P.3 will host a variety of community-based events in New Orleans throughout the month of January. Several of these events are free, open to the public, or crafted for kids and families, designed to closely link the New Orleans community with the biennial and its artists.
P.3+ Art Excursion Bus Trip to Hammond, LA
· Saturday, January 10, 11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m., pick up and return at the Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street)
· P.3 will host a unique Art Excursion Bus Trip to view P.3+ regional programming in Hammond, LA. Presenting over two-dozen art exhibits, installations and performances, the regional programming features several exhibitions, including:
o Flight of the Wetlands by John Valentino
o A performance by GIANTS IN THE CITY, a traveling exhibit of giant inflatable art sculptures created by an international group of artists
o A P.3+ Regional Juried Show
o Perfectly Imperfect by Mike Kilgore
o ACRE TV video installation
o Exhibits by Lori Gomez, Shanna D’Antonio, Josh Hailey, Kim Bergeron, Heather Vallaire, Michel Schroeder, Rachel Brown and Leah Anne Floyd, Christina Molina, Courtney Keller, Gustavo Duque; Kenneth Alexander, Lester Merriweather, Chuck Wright, Patty McGehee, Roland Guidry, Andrea Hano, Jeff Mickey and Jean Flint
· $45 includes the bus trip to and from Hammond, a reception at the Hammond Regional Art Center, and visits to performances, exhibits and programs.
· To reserve your spot on the bus, or for more information, contact caroline@prospectneworleans.
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· For more information, please visit the Hammond Regional Art Center website.
Self-taught Artists in Museums and in the Mainstream
· Saturday, January 10, 2 p.m., Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp Street)
· A specialist in self-taught artists and their work, Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Brooke Davis Anderson will lead a panel discussion about the opportunities self-trained artists present for museums. The panel will touch upon the many manners in which self-taught makers, from Basquiat to Reverend Howard Finster to Herbert Singleton invite us to expand our notions of art and art history. Free with Museum admission. For questions or more information contact Ellen Balkin at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org or visit the Ogden Museum website.
P.3Reads Featuring P.3 Artist Firelei Baez Discussing Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
· Thursday, January 15, 6 – 7 p.m., New Orleans Public Library, Nix Library (1401 S. Carrollton Avenue)
· Sirmans’s thoughtful consideration of the role that books and literature play in our collective understanding of the world is at the heart of P.3. The P.3Reads series aims to utilize the shared sense of community that comes from reading as an entrée for audiences who are curious about contemporary art, and would like to better understand the creative processes of contemporary artists. For those already familiar with contemporary art, the series will offer a deeper perspective on the relationship between literature and other art forms.
Basquiat for Pee-Wees: an Introduction to Poetry and Contemporary Art for Youngsters Ages 5-8
· Saturday, January 17, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp Street)
· Join poet Kelly Harris for a reading and performance of the children’s book, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: Maya Angelou’s Courageous Children’s Verses, illustrated by Basquiat. Afterwards, children will have an opportunity craft their own poem and art inspired by the book and the exhibition Basquiat and the Bayou Presented by The Helis Foundation. Registration is required. To register, visit the Ogden Museum website. For questions or more information contact Ellen Balkin at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org.
CAC Member’s Walkthrough with P.3 Executive Director Brooke Davis Anderson
· Saturday, January 17, 2 – 4 p.m., Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street)
· Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Brooke Davis Anderson will lead an insightful walkthrough of P.3’s most internationally concentrated venue, the CAC. This unique event is limited to CAC members.
Andrea Fraser’s poignant pyramid of cast off Brazilian Carnival costumes 2 (Instagram photo by Doug MacCash / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Not just a few of us, a performance by Andrea Fraser
· Wednesday, January 21, 6 p.m., Dixon Hall, Tulane University (6823 St. Charles Avenue)
· P.3 Artist Andrea Fraser’s Not just a few of us is the interpretation of one public confrontation with racist systems in contemporary New Orleans: a 1991 City Council hearing regarding the official desegregation of the unofficially self-segregated Mardi Gras krewes. Fraser has transcribed, internalized, and performed the heat: one person embodying divergent voices and perspectives. Andrea Fraser first performed Not just a few of us for the opening of P.3 in October, 2014, and revisits the performance for this event.
Motor coach Tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
· Thursday, January 22, 9:30 a.m.–5p.m, Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
· Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 AM–5:00 PM daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The cost is $75 per day. Please contact Megan Koza Young at megan@prospectneworleans.org with all questions or to reserve a seat.
Andrea Fraser Post Performance Lecture
· Thursday, January 22, 6p.m, Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street)
· Artspeak and the Contemporary Arts Center present a public lecture with P.3 artist Andrea Fraser, who will discuss her work and performance, Not just a few of us.
Motor coach Tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
· Friday, January 23, 9:30a.m.–5p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 AM–5:00 PM daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The cost is $75 per day. Please contact Megan Koza Young at megan@prospectneworleans.org with all questions or to reserve a seat.
Opening at Tulane University, Newcomb Gallery during P.3 Notes for Now
Tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now exhibits with Franklin Sirmans
· Friday, January 23, 6 p.m., New Orleans Museum of Art (City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle)
· Sirmans will be leading a tour of the P.3 exhibits in NOMA’s galleries, which will feature a selection by Sirmans of modern and contemporary works that have been integrated into the museum’s collections. A key aspect of the exhibition is the idea of Otherness and the integration of the “Other” into the Western canon, as well as the co-opting of canonic forms by “peripheral” artists as a means of creating new and hybrid artistic movements. P.3 artists featured at NOMA include: Tarsila do Amaral, Frederick J. Brown, Huguette Caland, Ed Clark, Andrea Fraser, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson and Alma Thomas. Free with museum admission. For more information call 504.658.4100.
Walkthrough with Franklin Sirmans and Deborah Willis
· Friday, January 23, 7:30 p.m., Joan Mitchell Center Studios (1000 North Rampart Street)
· P.3 Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans and Deborah Willis, curator of P.3+ project Convergence will lead a walkthrough of their exhibits on view at the Joan Mitchell Center. P.3 artists on view at the Joan Mitchell Center Studios include Firelei Báez, Los Jaichackers, Remy Jungerman, and Akosua Adoma Owusu.
Motor coach Tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
· Saturday, January 24, 9:30 a.m.–5p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
· Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 AM–5:00 PM daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The cost is $75 per day. Please contact Megan Koza Young at megan@prospectneworleans.org with all questions or to reserve a seat.
Panel Discussion with artists Brandan Odums, Lisa Sigal and Willie Birch
· Saturday, January 24, 2p.m., Science Building Auditorium, Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Drive)
· Co-sponsored with Xavier University, this important panel explores the responsibility of the artist in regard to their social and political environment. This panel will take place at Xavier University and centers around the P.3+ project ExhibitBE, organized by local artist Brandan Odums. ExhibitBE explores the relationship of street artists to a specific site, the abandoned Charles DeGaulle Manor housing complex in Algiers. . Prospect New Orleans is offering bus transportation to visit ExhibitBE before the panel discussion. The cost is $75, and the bus will depart the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue) at 10:30 a.m. and return around 4:30 p.m. Please contact Megan Koza Young at megan@prospectneworleans.org with all questions or to reserve a seat.
P.3 Mobile Hub. Image courtesy of Prospect New Orleans.
Closing Reception
· Saturday, January 24, 6:30–8p.m., P.3. Saint Maurice Catholic Church (605 St. Maurice Avenue)
· Please join Prospect New Orleans for a public reception celebrating the close of Prospect.3: Notes for Now.
Finally, P.3 will continue engaging with the New Orleans community through several initiatives including the stationary and mobile HUBs, as well as the P.3 app.
· The “Prospect.3: Notes for Now” Official Information HUB is located in the lobby of the Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street) and is open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. Visitors to the HUB can pick up The Advocate’s Map and Guide to Prospect.3: Notes for Now, palm cards, mini coach tour information, volunteer/docent information and general advice on getting around to the venues.
· The Mobile HUB will continue traveling throughout the city, and distributing the Map and Guides, as well as selling t-shirts, tote bags and other P.3 items. Check out our social media sites to find out the location of the Mobile Hub every week.
· The P.3 App is available for download by texting “P3NOLA” to 990-00. Prospect New Orleans has partnered with Culture Connect to produce this mobile experience app for “Prospect.3: Notes for Now.” The app helps visitors navigate the many exhibitions throughout New Orleans and provides rich contextual information about the artists, their work and the participating venues. Visitors can use the app to plan their visits, share experiences while exploring a site, or dig deeper after their visit. The app will have continuous updates throughout the three-month biennial.