Facebook Live talk with Isobel Whitelegg

Isobel Whitelegg is an art historian, occasional curator, and the Director of Postgraduate Research at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. She specialised in the history of theory of Latin American Art at the University of Essex and has published widely on contexts for the circulation and reception of Latin American Art, including the Bienal de Sao Paulo, and Signals London. Her current research focuses on the relationship between institutional memory and contemporary art. Exhibition projects include Signals: If you like I shall grow (kurimanzutto at Thomas Dane, London, 2018) and a forthcoming retrospective of Cinthia Marcelle (MACBA, 2021). A trustee of the Biennial Foundation, and artist-led organisation Primary, she has previously occupied two positions that operated between academic and arts-institutional contexts: as LJMU Research Curator within the Tate Research Centre: Curatorial Practice & Museology and as Head of Nottingham Contemporary’s Public Programme.

With support from British Council Philippines.

Webinar

Deadline of submissions: July 14, 2020
Webinar is free.

Applications should include background information, a short statement of interest (150-250 words), and an abstract of academic research (Art History, Art Studies) or brief curatorial project. Within this exchange, participants will have already prepared the said proposal, perhaps with or without a direct correlation or influence from Dr. Whitelegg’s talk. In turn, Dr. Whitelegg will be sharing her methods and process as an art historian, by sharing case-studies in which she has disembodied narratives that were kept in the margins of dominant discourse. The dialogue will encourage participants towards an art history that is comparative and critical, finding rigor in speculative associations between works of art, archives, and thought.

Selected participants will be notified by July 24th. Schedule of webinar session will be coordinated between selected applicant and BAP and will be scheduled in early August.

Post-session, participants may be commissioned to publish their proposal or submit an original output from the sessions in a format—depending on the nature and scope—that will be mutually agreed between the participant and BAP. This is a paid commission.