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Beginning in March, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) will present 14 exhibitions and projects, including work by more than 25 leading and emerging contemporary artists such as Nina Katchadourian, Joachim Koester, Timur Si-Qin, and Danh Vo, all curated by second-year students. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree.

Exhibitions and Projects in the first group are:

Swells as it Advances

Artists: Sung Hwan Kim, Myriam Yates

Curated by Janine Armin

Swells as it Advances ... presents videos that call up multiple layers of duration through narration and its absence.

Summerland

Artists: Peter Hutton, Tony Oursler, Olivia Plender, and Kiki Smith

Curated by Theresa Choi

A manifestation of the historical and spiritual Summerland at Bard College through a constellation of artworks by Olivia Plender, Tony Oursler, Peter Hutton, and Kiki Smith.

Three Evidentiary Claims

Artists: Erin Shirreff, Lesley Vance, and Michael Jones McKean

Curated by Rachel Cook

Three Evidentiary Claims examines the vexed relationship between images and objects, offering a set of triangulations as a reading strategy for how to see, think, and experience the creation of meaning within artworks.

These are not obligations but I want to (a response in two parts)

Artists: Simon Fujiwara and Dawn Kasper

Curated by Suzy M. Halajian

These are not obligations but I want to (a response in two parts) presents two site-specific commissions by artists Simon Fujiwara and Dawn Kasper whose performance-based works utilize personal storytelling as a way to complicate and restage the museum environment.

The Center for Short-Lived Phenomena

Artists: Nina Katchadourian, Danna Vajda, Swintak

Curated by Clara Halpern

The Center for Short-Lived Phenomena is a temporary institution, which will run inside and alongside CCS Bard. Artists Nina Katchadourian, Danna Vajda and Swintak have contributed projects that will unfold over the course of the institution's month-long existence.

A Sudden, Sharp, Hot Stink of Fox

Artists: Lygia Clark, Carolee Schneemann and others

Curated by Alicia Ritson

A Sudden, Sharp, Hot Stink of Fox is a gathering of works wherein an encounter with the animal produces an ecstatic complication of being.

Ray Johnson: The Dover Street Years 1953-1960

Artist: Ray Johnson

Curated by Anastasia Rygle

it really isn't necessary to see the moticos or know where it is because i have seen them. perhaps i might point them out to you. the best way is to go about your business not thinking about silly moticos because when you begin seeing them describing what they are or where they are going is so just make sure you wake up from sleeping and go your way and go to sleep when you will. the moticos does that too and does not worry about you. perhaps you are the moticos.-Ray Johnson What is a Moticos

Student-curated projects at CCS Bard are made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center's Patrons, Supporters, and Friends. Additional support is provided by the Monique Beudert Award Fund.