OPEN CALL for CULTIVATE Module 2

Applications for CULTIVATE: Module 2 are now open. APPLY NOW!

This professional development program, organized for curators / arts managers, targets current staff of art entities and freelance operators in Southeast Asia. CULTIVATE is a unique opportunity to enhance your curatorial and art management skills through hands-on experiences and guidance from our esteemed faculty and peers. Don’t miss your chance to connect with fellow professionals. Applications close 9 November, 2024.

OVERVIEW

CULTIVATE invites acclaimed experts as faculty to Bangkok to develop 18 select arts professionals with skills and networks to distinguish themselves and their affiliates as leading facilitators of contemporary art in the region. For each module, different faculty members add topically-relevant experience as educators and facilitators of contemporary culture, with particular insight from their work across the Global South. Each of the 5 modules includes a 1-week face-to-face intensive, followed by a practicum of periodic group and individual online meetings with nominated faculty throughout the following three months. Participants will use their current projects as case studies for faculty consultation and problem-solving. To conclude each module, participants submit materials for assessment to guest faculty.

Module 2 focuses on ‘Patronage’, examining the current structures of support in the Arts, with particular reflection on the financial, intellectual and ethical impact of its assumptions on the growth of the arts ecology in Southeast Asia. What does it mean to encourage collectors as patrons? What role do curators and arts managers have in educating our supporters? How do we (curators, arts managers, gallerists, collectors) support the ethical growth of our artists and the (human and non-human) contexts of their artistic production? Such investigation will be studied via first-hand experiences from faculty, in addition to exploring the mechanics of: curator/artist/patron relations; how to nurture philanthropic ethos; outlining strategic methods of collection-based research; basic assessments of authenticity and appraisal; encouraging ‘pro-active’ collecting; and building patrons as community builders.

Faculty for Module 2 includes: Alessio Antoniolli (Director, Triangle Arts Network; previous Director of Gasworks, London); Adeline Ooi (curator and arts advisor, previous Director, Art Basel, Hong Kong); X Zhu Nowell (curator and Director, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai); Erin Robideaux Gleeson (curator, writer, educator; Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice, University of Minnesota, previous Director/Founder of SASABASSAC, Phnom Penh); Andreas Teoh (collector and Founder, The Institutum, Singapore) and Zoe Butt (curator, writer, educator; director/founder, in-tangible institute).

CULTIVATE is a not-for-profit initiative of in-tangible institute.

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For more information on the incredible experience of our faculty, and how to apply, please see here.

Are you Thai and interested in applying? We offer 2 scholarships (tuition fee only). APPLY!

Learn more about the inaugural CULTIVATE cohort of Module 1 here!