Framework: Curatorial Studio Open Reading with Maria Fusco

Maria Fusco and Curatorial Studio participants read a selection of texts on the themes of Object Writing and the relationship between writing and curatorial thought. The event acts as a public prelude launching the Curatorial Studio project that will run over the next nine months.

Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in Glasgow, working across fiction, criticism and theory. Her latest work, Master Rock, is a repertoire for a mountain, commissioned by Artangel and BBC Radio 4. Her books include: With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form (Los Angeles/Vancouver: New Documents, 2013), and The Mechanical Copula (Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press, 2011). She is founder of The Happy Hypocrite, a journal for and about experimental writing, is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh and was Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://mariafusco.net

Curatorial Studio is a supportive peer-learning group and mentoring project for emerging curators across Scotland. The participants are: Frances Davis, Gordon Douglas, Cicely Farrer, Rachel Grant, Marcus Jack, Grace Johnston, Maria Lanko, Gemma Lawrence, Emmie McLusky, Katherine Murphy, Rosie O’Grady, Frances Stacey, Shireen Taylor, Nick Thomas and Claire Walsh. The project is organised by Kirsteen Macdonald (Framework / The Glasgow School of Art) and was developed through a partnership between SCAN, Framework, CCA Glasgow and the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme; a partnership between The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow. For more details, please see http://framework.parallellines.org.uk