Curator in Residence Talk with Sylvie Fortin

Sylvie Fortin is an interdependent curator, researcher, writer, and editor based in Montréal and Buenos Aires. She was Curator-in-Residence (2019–21) at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA; Executive/Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal (2013–17); Executive Director/Editor of ART PAPERS, Atlanta (2004–12). Fortin lectures internationally. Her writings have been published widely, including in Artforum, ART PAPERS, Art Press, Art Review, e-flux Criticism, and Frieze.

In 2017, Fortin began a long-term, interdisciplinary, itinerant curatorial inquiry into the currencies of hospitality. She now realizes it will be a lifelong project.

Focusing on the debt that economics and finance owe to hospitality, her current research is carried out through curatorial residencies and the realization of Transitive Properties, a long-term mobile platform hosting undisciplined artists/thinkers and supporting their open-ended research and production. In the process, it redistributes resources and fosters contagious social experimentation, aiming, on a small scale, to realize alternative worldings.

The Residency Series is generously supported by North Vancouver Recreation and Culture.

Photo credit: C. Daniel Dawson

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