Curator’s talk: Leo Cocar at Fogo Island Arts
November 7, 2024
Please join us this Saturday, November 9th, for a curator’s talk by Leo Cocar, the recipient of this year’s Hnatyshyn Foundation - Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency. The event, taking place on Fogo Island, will be livestreamed on Microsoft Teams. It will take place at 10:30 a.m. EST/noon Newfoundland Standard Time. Register here.
The Hnatyshyn Foundation - Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency is a six-week residency that provides an opportunity for a young Canadian curator to work in residence at Fogo Island Arts, a contemporary arts venue in Newfoundland.
During his talk, Cocar will present the research that has been informing his future work with artist Derya Akay at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
“Mobilizing (loose) interpretations of writing by philosopher Reza Negarastani, artist Cildo Meireles’ work Insertions Into Ideological Circuits, and Theodor Adorno’s writings on aesthetics (among others), this presentation will take the form of ruminations on the ways in which art objects (and exhibitions) may use alternate modes of socio-communal engagement (beyond the rarefied art world) as a means of breaking out of narrow arenas of both conceptualization and display.”
Leo Cocar is a cultural worker from the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. His writing has appeared in Flash, e-flux, Bomb, C Magazine, Momus, and Numéro Berlin, among others. He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
