- Chiara Giovando
- From SMASHISIM, a show curated by Chiara Giovando at Human Resources LA.
Yesterday, Disjecta announced their latest curator-in-residence, and it’s Chiara Giovando, formerly of Los Angeles’ Human Resources. It’ll be interesting to see what the LA-based Giavondo does as she fills the position left by Rachel Adams, who showed huge range as a curator during her year on the job. While some of my favorite Adams-curated shows were heavy on sculptural and video elements, Giavondo brings something totally new to the table: As a sound artist with a background in installation, she’ll be building on a curatorial history that includes a huge amount of sound and site-specific work.
In other words, shit’s gonna (probably) get weird, in a good way (probably).
In Giovando’s own words, from a press release sent yesterday by Disjecta, “Disjecta’s 2015-16 program will explore an expanded definition of sound, looking at historical experiments in musical notation, new sound art practices, and ways that sound functions in architecture and installation.”
Giovando will be Disjecta’s fifth curator in residence. Previous projects include San Francisco’s Sound Structures, which took inspiration from the Fluxus* movement in Japan; and The Third Ear, a collection of new sound pieces. The press release states that Giovando plans to present work from a combination of local and out-of-town artists. Adams was an out-of-towner too, but there’s no shortage of conceptual art in Portland, so here’s hoping Giovando makes good on her promise to integrate locally made art into her programming.
*At the risk of making a whole bunch of art historians cry, the best possible definition of the Fluxus movement I’ve ever encountered is that it’s exactly what it sounds like—art in flux! Also, it is very weird, and Yoko Ono was a fan.