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RE-IMAGINING PANEL
12 May 2010
Speakers:
TIM GRUCHY / Artist, Sydney and NZ
JOHN KALDOR / Founding Director, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney
JAY LEVENSON / Director, International Programs, Museum of Modern Art, New York
DJON MUNDINE / Artist and Indigenous Curator of Contemporary Art, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney
JAMES PUTNAM / Independent Curator, London
STANISLAV ROUDAVSKI / Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, University of Melbourne, Australia
PIER LUIGI TAZZI / Independent Curator, Italy
A critical position towards Momentum itself, the art fair and other existing institutional structures with a view to moving forward.
SPEAKERS:
TIM GRUCHY
Tim’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation and performance while redefining it’s role and challenging the delineations between cultural sectors. His performance and installation art has featured in many international and Australasian festivals and performance spaces including the 2nd Asian Art BIennial in Taiwan (2009), the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts (2009), the Festival of Visual Arts in Adelaide (1986-2008). the Auckland Arts Festival (2009); Taranaki International Arts Festival in New Zealand (2007); People’s Day in Brisbane (2006); Sydney Festival (2004). Theatre and opera credits include AIDA Sydney Opera House and touring Australia(2009-2010), Ainadamar, Adelaide Festival (2008), Season of Sarsparilla, with Sydney Theatre Company (2007-2008), The Leningrad Symphony with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (2006), Luminous with the Australian Chamber Orchestra with Bill Henson (2008 Slovenia, 2004 Australia), and HAIR (2003). His visual designs have featured in works produced by Opera Australia, OzOpera, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Theatre for Young People, Performing Lines and Australian Dance Theatre. His video work has been exhibited in most large art institutions and cultural festivals in Australia as well as China, New Zealand, Taiwan, Holland, Belgium, the UK, the US, Japan, France and Thailand. Tim has facilitated workshops, lectured and consulted in video art and interactive digital design at creative institutions around the world including Shanghai; the Future University of Hakodate (Japan); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney); University of Technology Sydney; Cambridge University Film School (Christchurch); Te Papa Museum (New Zealand) and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). He has also been extensively involved in museum design and various projects at the intersection of architecture and multimedia. Projection Designer Tim Gruchy studied architecture and music at The University of Queensland. His art practice is performative and as a designer of immersive interactive installations (often in collaboration with his brother Mic). He is sought-after as a designer for dance, theatre, opera, museums and a variety of other emerging mediums.
JOHN KALDOR
John Kaldor was born in 1936 in Budapest, Hungary. His family escaped in 1948 and settled in Sydney, where John attended Riverview St Ignatius College. After completing high school, he left for England to begin his textile training under Sir Nicholas Sekers, a pioneer of the British fashion textiles after World War II. In 1955 John Kaldor began a course at the Textile College of Zurich in Switzerland. John Kaldor’s interest in art began at an early age when he spent five months in Paris after leaving Hungary in 1948. This interest was encouraged by Sir Nicholas Sekers and later by Professor Itten, the Director of the Textile College of Zurich, who had previously achieved international recognition as one of the original founders of the Bauhaus movement in Germany. In 1957, John Kaldor returned to Australia and began his first job as a designer at Silk & Textile Printers, Hobart, under the guidance of one of Australia’s founding fathers of textiles Mr Claude Alcorso. In 1960, he moved to Sydney and joined Sekers Silk, which was the Australian operation of Sir Nicholas Sekers’ business, owned and run by John’s parents Andrew and Vera Kaldor. In 1970 John Kaldor launched John Kaldor Fabricmaker Pty Ltd, (later trading as John Kaldor). During the mid 1970′s John Kaldor expanded overseas, with offices in New York, Osaka, London, Sydney, and Melbourne. In 2005 John Kaldor decided to close the Australian operation to be able to devote his time to his life long passion, art. The UK branch of the company is continuing and the products are distributed in the US. John Kaldor is known as a committed supporter and patron of international contemporary art in Australia. In 1969 John Kaldor invited Christo & Jeanne-Claude to Australia and co-ordinated The Wrapped Coast, which was their first major landscape work. This work became John Kaldor’s Art Project 1, the first of a series of art projects.
JAY LEVENSON
Jay A. Levenson has since 1996 been the Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he coordinates the museum’s relations with institutions in other countries. Prior to that he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he helped prepare such major exhibitions as Africa: The Art of a Continent and China: 5000 Years. He has served as guest curator for a number of exhibitions, including Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration (1991) and The Age of the Baroque in Portugal (1993) for the National Gallery of Art, and Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2007) for the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, which was also presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and awarded a Ph.D. in art history by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, he has held positions both as a curator and museum administrator and as an attorney.
DJON MUNDINE
Djon Mundine is a curator and art historian, originally from the Northern Rivers area of NSW. He is currently Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Mundine is well known as the concept curator of the permanent Aboriginal Memorial installation at the National Gallery of Australia and was awarded an OAM in 1993. Previous positions have included: Senior Curator, Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia, Senior Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Programs, MCA, and Art Adviser for the Ramingining Community of Central Arnhem Land.
JAMES PUTNAM
James Putnam is an independent curator and writer. He founded and was curator of the British Museum’s Contemporary Arts and Cultures Programme (1999 to 2003) and was formerly a curator of their Egyptian Antiquities Dept. (1985 –1998). In 1994 he conceived and curated the groundbreaking exhibition, Time Machine, which involved juxtaposing works by contemporary artists with ancient sculpture in the British Museum’s Egyptian Gallery. He also organized a different version of Time Machine at the Museo Egizio, Turin in 1995. His book Art and Artifact – The Museum as Medium, published by Thames & Hudson in 2000 & 2009, surveys the interaction between contemporary artists and the museum. He was Visiting Scholar in Museum Studies at New York University from 2003- 2004 and since 2004 has been lecturer in Curatorial Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. He has curated an ongoing series of critically acclaimed projects with contemporary artists at the Freud Museum, London. He has also curated exhibitions at the Petrie Museum, University College London and was Associate Curator at the Bowes Museum, County Durham from 2004 to 2006. He was appointed curator of Arte all’Arte 9, in Tuscany in 2005 and was on the curatorial committee for the 2006 Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Japan. In 2009 he c0-curated the inaugural exhibition Mythologies at the Haunch of Venison, London with 45 international artists. As collateral events of the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009, he curated the exhibitions Distortion and Library and is currently a curator for the 2010 Busan Biennale, S.Korea.
STANISLAV ROUDAVSKI
Stanislav Roudavski has a combined qualification of Master of Architecture / Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, a Master of Science in Computer-Aided Architectural Design from the University of Strathclyde (UK) and a Doctorate from the University of Cambridge (UK). He practiced in several European countries designing across scales and applications. His creative portfolio includes contributions to urban environments, buildings, interiors and furniture, as well as artwork, photography and interactive applications. He taught and worked on research projects at the University of Cambridge and is currently based at the University of Melbourne where his practice-based research work integrates organizational techniques of architecture, unpredictability and richness of performative situations, creative capacities of computing, visual languages of the moving-image arts, dramaturgy and spatial narrative.
PIER LUIGI TAZZI
Pier Luigi Tazzi (Colonnata, Florence 1941) is a critic, columnist, teacher and curator, currently based in Capalle, Florence, and in Bangkok. Among others, he was curator at the XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. La Biennale di Venezia (1988), co-director of DOCUMENTA IX in Kassel (1992), co-curator of Wounds: between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, the inaugural exhibition of the new building of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1998), and of Happiness: a Survival Guide for Art and Life, the inaugural exhibition of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2003). He is currently chairman of the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi onlus in Pelago (since 1998), permanent curator of Spread in Prato, Prato (since 2002), and guest curator at the Aichi Triennial 2010 in Nagoya (since 2008).
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