Summer School as School
3- 18 July, 2016
Public Program
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 20:15
Renaud Proch: Why are we here?
Venue: Boxing Club
Mark Isaku St. Prishtina
Republic of Kosovo
Renaud Proch will discuss possible ways to open up the notion of educational curriculum and the need to provide models for the sharing of knowledge and continued learning among peers. He will introduce ICI and several of its programs including Salon de Fleurus, the exhibition currently on view at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in conjunction with SSAS.
Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive Director, and from December 2009 to March 2013, he served as ICI’s Deputy Director. Prior to this he was the Senior Director at the Project in New York, as well as the Director of MC, in Los Angeles. Originally from Switzerland, Proch studied in London, and moved to the West Coast of the U.S. in 2001. He co-founded ART2102 of Los Angeles in 2003, a non-profit organization that realized projects by artists and curators on- and off-site; and the backroom in 2005, a growing artists’ archive and itinerant research-oriented project presented in five cities in the U.S., Mexico and France. In 2011, he co-curated with Khwezi Gule a retrospective of South African artist Tracey Rose for the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, and the Umea Bildmuseet, Sweden, which also traveled to the Nikolaj Kunsthal, in Copenhagen, Denmark.