Uncommon Pursuits |
Session III –
Research Practices

Opening: 31.07.2018  Exhibition on view until 03.08.2018 Location: Sàn Art Library   Uncommon Pursuits, established in the summer of 2018, is a school dedicated to emerging Southeast Asian curators who aspire to gain theoretical and practical skills as they research, write and curate contemporary art in their translocal contexts. Please find more information on our program here. The term ‘research’ has become common currency among the range of practitioners under the rubric of ‘contemporary art.’ The term has a history in this context and carries certain implications: a break with...

Brian Curtin

Brian Curtin is a widely published art critic and his curatorial work includes The Ethics of Encounter: Contemporary Art from India and Thailand (2008); On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia (2012); Radiation: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila (2014); and Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh (2014), co-curated with Roger Nelson. Brian founded and managed the experimental venue H Project Space in Bangkok from 2011-2018, and he continues to evolve projects under the mantle Brian Curtin Projects....