Prospectus is the web publication/blog for the Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial, which will include daily/weekly updates, moderated dialogues and discussions , interviews with artists, New Orleans related information and a parallel exhibition calendar.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Dan Cameron (Founding Director and Chief Curator)

Prospect.1 New Orleans will be directed by Dan Cameron, an internationally renowned contemporary curator who was recently appointed Director of Visual Arts of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans. Dan Cameron has organized numerous large-scale and international exhibitions, including Dirty Yoga: the 2006 Taipei Biennial; NY Interrupted (pkm Gallery, Beijing, 2006-07), Poetic Justice (the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003), Cocido y Crudo (Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, 1994), and Art and its Double (Fundaçió La Caixa, Barcelona and Madrid, 1986-87), among others. While Senior Curator at the New Museum, he organized retrospective exhibitions on the work of Carolee Schneemann, Cildo Meireles, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Pierre et Gilles, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, and Carroll Dunham, as well as acclaimed survey exhibitions like East Village USA (2004) and Living Inside the Grid (2003).

Hakan Topal

(1972, Anatolia) is a media artist, living and working in New York. He studied engineering (B.S.), Gender and Women Studies (M.S.) and he is currently a Ph.D. student in the Sociology department at the New School for Social Research, New York. As an artist he has realized one-person exhibitions, performances, video projects and photo-essays in addition to publishing works in various journals and catalogs. Together with Guven Incirlioglu (Istanbul), he initiated the transatlantic collaboration xurban_collective, which takes the form of artistic research projects and media installations, and dedicated to artistic and visual investigations of geopolitical conditions since 2000 (www.xurban.net). xurban_collective have exhibited internationally including projects in institutions such as the 49th Venice Biennial (2001), the 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003), PS1/MoMA (2005), Apexart (2004), Exitart (2005) and ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2005).

CONTRIBUTORS / DISCUSSANTS

Alex Villar

Born in Brazil ‘62, based in New York, MFA from Hunter College ‘98 and Whitney ISP fellow 2000. Work draws from interdisciplinary theoretical sources; it employs video, installation and photography. Individual and collaborative projects are part of a long-term investigation of potential spaces of dissent in the urban landscape; it has often taken the form of an exploration of negative spaces in architecture. Selected exhibitions: New Museum, Mass MoCA, Drawing Center, Exit Art, Stux Gallery, Apexart and Dorsky Gallery in New York; Institute of International Visual Arts in London, Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo, Galleri Tommy Lund and Overgaden in Copenhagen, UKS in Oslo, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the Goteborg Konstmuseum in Sweeden, Galerie Joanna Kamm in Berlin, Signal in Malmo, Galeria Arsenal in Poland, Lichthaus in Bremen and Halle für Kunst in Luneburg. Published articles and reviews in ReMarx, Text zur Kunst, Tema Celeste and New York Times.

Vyjayanthi Rao

(Ph.D., University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New School for Social Research.  Her research focuses on globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of technology, infrastructure, memory and on the ethics and aesthetics associated with globalization.  She is currently working on a book based on her research in Mumbai, titled The Speculative Ethic and the Spirit of Globalization.