Whitney Museum of American Art: Recent pages: Research/ISP

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:50 -0400

Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram

Curatorial students collaborate to produce an exhibition. Working closely with the program’s faculty and curators at the Whitney, the students develop proposals for the exhibition. Once a proposal has been approved by the Museum’s curators, the students proceed to select artworks, arrange loans, and design and oversee the installation of the exhibition. The students write essays for and participate in the production of a catalogue accompanying their exhibition.

Creative Destruction

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:47:12 -0400

Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram/2012Exhibition

Support for the Independent Study Program is provided by Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa, The Capital Group Charitable Foundation, and the Whitney Contemporaries through their annual Art Party benefit.

Endowment support is provided by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, and the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

Foreclosed: Between Crisis And Possibility

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:08:42 -0400

Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram/2011Exhibition

Support for the Independent Study Program is provided by Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa, The Capital Group Charitable Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and the Whitney Contemporaries through their annual Art Party benefit.

Endowment support is provided by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, and the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:13:26 -0500

Research/ISP

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.

Each year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program, and six in the Critical Studies Program. Curatorial and critical studies students are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of the following May. Many of the participants are enrolled at universities and art schools and receive academic credit for their participation, while others have recently completed their formal studies.

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:23:33 -0500

Research/ISP/Application

A clear indication of which program (studio, critical, or curatorial) you are applying for
A résumé or C.V. including name, address, and telephone number (school and/or permanent)
School you are currently attending or have attended, degree program, and expected date of graduation (may be included in your C.V.)
Two letters of recommendation (may be sent under separate cover)
A statement discussing your work, educational experience, and intellectual interests (no more than 2 pages)
An application fee of $15 (make check or a Western Union money order payable to Whitney Museum of American Art)

Studio Program applicants must also include

Reproductions of examples of your recent work—No more than 15 high resolution print-outs, photos, or slides (slides must be enclosed in plastic sleeves). No more than 30 minutes of film, videotape, or DVD (do not send original material). Please do not send CD-ROMs.
Application materials must be enclosed in no larger than a 9 × 12-inch envelope. Oversize material will not be reviewed.

Curatorial Program applicants must also include

Writing sample (no more than 15 pages)
An exhibition proposal (no more than 2 pages)

Critical Studies Program applicants must also include

Writing sample (no more than 15 pages)
An individual research project proposal (no more than 4 pages)

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:22:52 -0500

Research/ISP/Seminars

The faculty of the ISP is available to meet individually with all members of the program to discuss their work or more general practical, theoretical, or historical questions. The program’s regular and visiting faculty members are Ron Clark, Mary Kelly, Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster, Laura Mulvey, Isaac Julien, Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, Chantal Mouffe, Alex Alberro, Jennifer Gonzalez, Okwui Enwezor, and Sarah Lookofsky.

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:21:33 -0500

Research/ISP/CriticalStudiesProgram

Critical Studies participants engage in individual scholarly research and critical writing projects through tutorials with a professional art historian, critic, or cultural theorist. The program’s faculty arranges tutorials and provides additional advice and guidance. A symposium is held in May at the Whitney, at which the Critical Studies students present papers.

Independent Study Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:41 -0500

Research/ISP/StudioProgram

The participants in the Studio Program are engaged in a variety of art practices with an emphasis on installation work, film and video, photography, performance, and various forms of interdisciplinary practice. The program provides studio space and facilities in our loft in downtown Manhattan. The Studio Program exhibition is held in May.

Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems In Recent Art

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:35:10 -0400

Research/ISP/CuratorialProgram/2010Exhibition

Ethical cohabitation—how to live together and how to be in the shared environment—is the problem that brings together the sociopolitical, cultural, and ecological within this exhibition. While ostensibly aiming to achieve harmonious balance, such relations are nevertheless inherently antagonistic and always unstable. In this context, how does one choose to act?

To address this question, we have traced out a network of physical sites along the west side of Manhattan to activate an expanded territory, both literally and figuratively. Specific project sites for the exhibition include The Kitchen, the High Line, the Little Red Lighthouse and the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant. This decentralized exhibition structure suggests multiple positions (geographical, historical, and physical) in which visitors may situate themselves. We provide the opportunity for artists and visitors to perceive and participate in these interrelationships within the urban environment.

Undercurrents is an experimental ecosystem in itself, opening up a collective platform for thought, the imagination, dialogue and action; the exhibition is a site to critically engage with the changes taking place in the entangled registers of the world around us. The range of artistic practices and issues presented produce surprising encounters, demonstrating how cohabitation is the source of struggle and creativity, problems and solutions, malice and beauty, and consists of the stage on which we all ultimately play a role.

Curated by Anik Fournier, Michelle Lim, Amanda Parmer and Robert Wuilfe
Whitney Independent Study Program Curatorial Fellows, 2009–2010

Faculty

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:50:19 -0400

Research/ISP/Faculty

The faculty of the ISP is available to meet individually with all members of the program to discuss their work or more general practical, theoretical, or historical questions. The program’s regular and visiting faculty members are Ron Clark, Johanna Burton, Mary Kelly, Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster, Laura Mulvey, Isaac Julien, Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, and Chantal Mouffe.

Recent Seminar Leaders And Tutors

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:05:57 -0400

Research/ISP/RecentSeminarLeadersAndTutors

Vito Acconci

Alex Alberro

Emily Apter

Carol Armstrong

Maurice Berger

Homi Bhabha

Gregg Bordowitz

Benjamin Buchloh

Judith Butler

Jonathan Crary

Thomas Crow

Rosalyn Deutsche

Mark Dion

Okwui Enwezor

Harun Farocki

Hal Foster

Andrea Fraser

Coco Fusco

Jennifer González

Isabelle Graw

Renée Green

Hans Haacke

Stuart Hall

David Harvey

Sharon Hayes

Thomas Hirschhorn

Jenny Holzer

Chrissie Iles

Alfredo Jaar

Isaac Julien

Mary Kelly

Silvia Kolbowski

Miwon Kwon

Louise Lawler

Kobena Mercer

Chantal Mouffe

Laura Mulvey

Mark Nash

Molly Nesbit

Christiane Paul

Adrian Piper

Yvonne Rainer

Martha Rosler

Andrew Ross

Allan Sekula

Gayatri Spivak

Anthony Vidler

Fred Wilson

Peter Wolle

Apply

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:17:42 -0400

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