Friends of the Divided Mind - Exhibition at the RCA

March 7th, 2009

Our member, Pamela Prado, is graduating with other thirteen curators at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Their final year collective project is this group exhibition. Sounds fantastic and align the provoking attitude of EXHIBIT.   Friends of the Divided Mind is an exhibition that addresses the organisations that support contemporary art. The show is divided into four projects that consider potentialities for the future of exhibition histories, artist-run spaces, performative and durational practices, and financially independent art spaces, initiated by a strong desire for alternatives.The traditional methodology of consensual decision-making applied to the MA Curating Contemporary Art annual exhibition is subverted in favor of an engaged and agonistic participation on behalf of the thirteen curators. This is reflected in the splitting up of inquiries, working groups and resources, in support of a shared undertaking. OFFICE OF REAL TIME ACTIVITY is an experimental institution, which exists for the duration of the exhibition and focuses on dialogue, debate and public participation. It aims to question the notion of time within an art organisation, through a programme of performances, discussions and sound works.Contributors: Dora Garcia, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jon Wozencroft,  Thomson & Craighead, Juliette Blightman, Ruth Buchanan & Andreas Müller, Celine Condorelli & Gavin Wade, Simon Fujiwara,  Celia Pym, Mandla Reuter.Organized by Sepake Angiama, Harriet Godwin, Pamela Prado and Lisa Schmidt. ULU | contemporary art is a project that imagines a new contemporary art institution in Iasi, Romania.Artists: Vincent Faciu, Dan Acostioaei, Antonia Hirsch, Lee Kit and Cezar Lăzărescu.Directed by Preeti Kathuria, Jesse McKee and Livia Pancu. RETRACING EXHIBITIONS addresses the difficulty of experiencing by-gone exhibitions in the presentArtists and contributors: Benoît Broisat, Hans Haacke, Pierre Leguillon, Kim Levin, SarahPierce, Kirsten Pieroth, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, the interview archives of Hans Ulrich Obrist and a reconstruction of the 1953 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) exhibition Parallel of Lifeand Art.Curated by Kari Conte and Florence Ostende. ENTRANCE & UNDERGROUND presents three very different artist-run spaces selected from the vast, lively and ever-changing landscape of self-organised initiatives in London. auto-italia south east, Parade, The Centre of the Universe.Curated by Dean kissick, Marcus Mitchell, Eszter Steierhoffer and Shang Wang.

18 - 29 March 2009Open daily 11am - 6pmAdmission free

Royal College of Art Galleries Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU

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http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/friendsofthedividedmind/