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Artists: Clare Butcher

Uncommon Pursuits | Session II –
Education, Writing, Editing

Opening: 24.07.2018  Exhibition on view until 27.07.2018 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 word ‘essayer’ derives from ‘essay’ and refers to a process of trying, weighing, meandering and unfolding. How might we think this in regard to the discursive lives of art exhibitions? The past, present...

Clare Butcher

Clare Butcher is an art educator from Zimbabwe, who cooks as part of her practice. She was an education Coordinator for documenta 14 and has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Piet Zwart Institute’s Master of Education in Art, and the University of Cape Town. Her own formal education includes an MFA from the School of Missing Studies, an MA in Curating the Archive from the University of Cape Town, and participation in the De Appel Curatorial Program. Some collaborative and individual endeavours include Men Are Easier to Manage...