Columbia University

Columbia University Butler Library c. 1934

I've been admitted for graduate study in the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in the Modern Art: Curatorial Studies MA programme. I intend to explore contemporary exhibition venues like Deitch Projects and Bricktops that have encouraged a model of spectatorship with alliances to turn-of-the-century World’s Fairs, cabarets, and other incarnations of late 19th and early 20th century visual culture. The chief concern of my studies will be the potential of quasi-carnivalesque spaces that engage play, participatory spectatorship, and stylized interior design to reconfigure the relationship of the viewing subject to the work as well as to the institution within which it is displayed.