VISUAL CULTURE
Anthony Kiendl: Profile
Anthony Kiendl is the Director, Visual Arts and Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre. He is also Director of the Banff International Curatorial Institute. In 2002, he served as Acting Director of the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library where he was Curator since 1997. His curatorial practice has theorized weakness, pathos, failure – and related sentiments such as nostalgia – as responses to modernism. This strategy has been manifested in diverse forms including the exhibition Little Worlds (1998), an exploration of diminutive environments by artists; Fluffy (1999) a research project on the aesthetics and meaning of cuteness; Space Camp 2000: Uncertainty, Speculative Fictions and Art (2000), a inter-disciplinary cocktail of speculative fictions and alterity; and Godzilla vs. Skateboarders: Skateboarding as a Critique of Social Spaces (2001). His writing on art has been published in Parachute, FUSE, Flash Art, and numerous catalogue essays. His upcoming projects include a feature-length film project with Joanne Bristol, entitled Comfy Hostage; and Spacer, an alternative mobile exhibition space. Informal Architectures is the first of a two-part international symposium to be held at Tate Modern, 15-16 February 2007, and followed by a second session at Plug In ICA, Canada, in February 2008, organised in his current role as Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow.