Reading International [electronic resource].

OnCurating.org 2020

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Reading International is a contemporary art organisation located within the Reading School of Art at the University of Reading. It was founded and initiated in response to ongoing discussions with artists, academics, students and local arts organisations about how we might establish new models of working in education and to respond to the growing pressures experienced by all participants. At the same time it was an attempt to reflect on the existence of the art school within a regional environment and to explore its possibilities in connecting and engaging with the different rhythms of the local arts community, to interrelate and raise ambitions for its co-existence and future. We wanted to imagine the art school as a public arena, which opens its life beyond the academic community and actively engages with a wider public, involving artists, curators, students and community. What would a model for such a public space look like? What are the challenges? What is at stake in this collaborative effort? Over the last three years we have invited artists to respond to the specific social and historical framework offered by the art school and the town. We have promoted and commissioned solo exhibitions, group and thematic shows, a programme of events including performances, film screenings, workshops and talks as well as offsite projects and temporary public artworks. Our projects have been hosted and supported by a rich mixture of partners within the town, and we have produced several major projects each year, in which artists and curators were given a platform to make new work. We have established ongoing collaborations with international arts institutions and engaged with a wide range of local community groups, schools and young people.
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Art--Study and teaching
Artists
Museums--Curatorship
Art museum curators

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Susanne Clausen
Abel Auer
Zbynek Baladrán
Željka Blakšić
Patricia L. Boyd
Michael Bracewell
Helen Cammock
Steven Claydon
Kirsten Cooke
Noam Enbar
Marco Godoy
Renée Green
Andrew Hunt
Tali Keren
Mikhail Karikis
Pavlo Kerestey
Scott King
Veit Laurent Kurz
Ghislaine Leung
Yuri Leiderman
Jesper List Thomsen
Alastair Mackinven
Ivan Melnychuk
Method Fund
Jeff Morton
Lada Nakonechna
Novel
Alun Rowlands
Matt Williams
Michal Oppenheim
Rory Pilgrim
Daniil Revkovskiy
Lozana Rossenova
Nir Shauloff
Maayan Sheleff
Sarah Spies
Cally Spooner
Studio For Propositional Cinema
Jack Tan
Mykola Ridnyi
Nina Wakeford
Steven Warwick
Matt Worley
Katarina Zdjelar
Stas Volyazlovsky
Chris Benfield