cu·rate

cu·rate is a group exhibition that aims to explore contemporary curatorial practice through interdisciplinary collaborations between artist and curator. The exhibition will be based in The CASS Gallery on Whitechapel High Street. The ever-changing role of curator has been subject to specific definitions dependent on the time; it is this negotiating role, this mediation, which comes to the fore in cu·rate's exhibition. Collaborations and discussions with artists are made visible in cu·rate's final display, online platforms and public programme. cu·rate attempts to open up a new and undiscovered discourse in curating; to define what curating is (or isn't) today, through the research and display of varied practitioners. The exhibition will feature a range of new commissions, site-specific installations and unseen archive film footage. Whitechapel Gallery curator, Daniel F. Herrmann will comment on the future of curating in a publication that will accompany the exhibition. cu·rate will be collaborating with moving image and performance artist Dave Charlesworth, who will present a series of films that explore fragmented personal histories. Recent graduate Holly Hendry will be assembling a site-specific installation that explores the space between construction and collapse. Conceptual artist, Cesare Pietroiusti will present a major series of specially commissioned drawings that invite the visitor to become a participant; whilst visual photographer and installation artist James Thurgood will be re-imagining past work, which explores the viewer's direct relationship with text, image and colour. An integrated public programme will run throughout the exhibition, which will give opportunity for dialogue between artists, curators and visitors. The programme includes: Cesare Pietroiusti Talk, Friday 2nd May, 12pm; Dave Charlesworth and James Thurgood in conversation, Thursday 8th May, 6pm; Curator's Tour, Tuesday 13th May, 12pm. cu·rate is co-curated by Phoebe V. Bradford, Natalie Craven & Abigail Shamah of MA Curating the Contemporary at London Metropolitan University in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery. To keep updated with the exhibition and public programme, follow us on Twitter: @cu_rate, Instagram: cu_rate and Facebook: cu·rate (event) or website: [email protected] Opening times: Monday - Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday 12 - 4pm Underground: Aldgate East