{"id":3918,"date":"2021-02-09T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2021-06-02T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T03:42:53","slug":"brian-curtin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/brian-curtin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Curtin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait of Brian Curtin, 2021, by Be Takerng Pattanopas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian Curtin<\/a> is an Irish-born art writer, lecturer, and curator of contemporary art. He has been based in Bangkok since 2000 where he lectures in the Department of Communication Design at Chulalongkorn University. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Brian\u2019s work explores dialogues between contemporary art, Queer theories and studies in visual and material cultures. His commentary, essays, interviews and reviews have been published in Art Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Artforum<\/em>,\u00a0Art Asia Pacific<\/em>,\u00a0Circa<\/em>,\u00a0Craft Research<\/em>,\u00a0Flash Art<\/em>,\u00a0Frieze<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Curatorial Studies<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Parachute<\/em>,\u00a0amongst others. Brian\u2019s monograph Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand<\/i> <\/a>will be published by Reaktion Books in June 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Research work addresses challenges in thinking through hierarchies and antagonisms that limit critical approaches to modern and contemporary art; and published essays in this respect explore the\u00a0art-historical marginalizing of \u2018decoration\u2019<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and also\u00a0problems of national identity<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>as a frame for recent art. Brian has presented at conferences and symposia in Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto, London and Singapore. And has held writer\u2019s residencies in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.<\/div>\n
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Seminar with artist Lim Sokchanlina at Toot Yung Gallery Bangok 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Essential Desires Publication in June 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portrait of Brian Curtin, 2021, by Be Takerng Pattanopas Brian Curtin is an Irish-born art writer, lecturer, and curator of contemporary art. He has been based in Bangkok since 2000 where he lectures in the Department of Communication Design at Chulalongkorn University. Brian\u2019s work explores dialogues between contemporary art, Queer theories and studies in visual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}