Inês Geraldes Cardoso
MA work
MA work
Sorry you missed me, CCA16
Sorry you missed me linked six artists negotiating codes of transmission. The original performances, sound-based sculpture, temporary wall painting and online commissions existed in between the other projects of CCA16, inviting audiences to navigate moments of contamination and come into contact with traces of missed connections.
The research for the show was a crucial element of the project. It developed through a programmed, five-month Reading Group with artists and multi-disciplinary participants, which informed the curatorial methodology and collaborative commissioning process of new works for the show.
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Marco Godoy, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Hanne Lippard, Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Curating Contemporary Art, 2016
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Contact
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+44 (0)7455 749840
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I am drawn to the potential of the curatorial to open up new ways of working, co-existing and thinking and I am particularly concerned with developing collaborative models of practice that foreground artists and their work. My projects at the Royal College of Art demonstrate my commitment to commissioning processes that privilege and stem from close working relationships with artists. These projects have also placed an emphasis on programming, which aims to foster multi-disciplinary exchanges between audiences and visual artists, writers and other cultural practitioners from diverse, international backgrounds. One example is the long-term Reading Group that became a dialogic platform and an integral element of the graduate project Sorry you missed me, which I co-curated with four peers.
I am interested in overlaps between curatorial practice and critical thinking and I have pursued exhibition projects and individual research at the intersection of both. Sorry you missed me developed around a methodology premised on the concept of contagion. This project sought to test conventions of exhibition-making, through a dispersed programme of performances, sound-based sculpture, painting and online commissions. My recent research also begins at the meeting point of theory and practice – Drained: Towards Vital Exhaustions of the Curatorial, investigates the under-addressed relationship between exhaustion and the curatorial. It advances connections between the emergence of curating alongside contemporary conditions of hyper-visibility, exploring exhaustion – both a cause and an actively embodied state – as a generative point of departure for curatorial practice.
My research interests draw on my background in Art History and Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews and my approach to curating has been informed by my work across a broad range of art organisations, including the not-for-profit Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice) and the award-winning arts production organisation Situations (Bristol).
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Degrees
- First Class MA (Hons.) Art History and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK, 2013
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Experience
- Freelance art writer and translator, ongoing; Curatorial assistant, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, 2014; Internship, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2013; Internship, Situations, Bristol, 2012
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Exhibitions
- Sorry you missed me, CCA16, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2016; Planta: Notes on Botanical Dissidence, Acme Project Space, London, UK, 2015
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Awards
- Alice Stone Ilchman Scholarship, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2013 (awarded to one outstanding international intern each year) ; Dean’s List for academic excellence, University of St Andrews, 2013; Social Anthropology Honours Degree Prize for best final year student in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, 2013; Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust travel grant for Social Anthropology fieldwork, University of St Andrews, 2012; Honorary Life Membership by the Students’ Association, University of St Andrews, 2013 (in recognition of efforts and dedication to enhancing student experience in St Andrews)
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Conferences
- 'Palladio in Liberia: Towards the photograph through presence, photography as framework', Anthropology and Photography Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, May 2014
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Publications
- 'At the table of another: Curatorial research, methodology and process', Sorry you missed me, Tetralogy (Curating Contemporary Art Publication), 2016; 'Valerie Hobson Learns to Fly: gender and technology in a Picture Post photo-story', HA@STA (University of St Andrews School of Art History Journal), Issue 30, 2013; 'At the salon: Addressing dynamics of space, intimacy and ritual', Ethnographic Encounters Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012