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Event: A Closer Look: Will Rawls’ [siccer] and its iterations
May 14
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A Closer Look: Will Rawls’ [siccer] and its iterations

May 14
7 PM - 8:30 PM
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What does it mean to present an artwork that is conceived to change and evolve over time and context? This panel discussion brings together six curators who have been part of Will Rawls’ [siccer] — from its original commission to the realization of its various presentations in museums and art organizations across the country. Using [siccer] as a case study, the curators will discuss how exhibitions are created and then adapted to the specificities of different spaces and the priorities for community engagement for each venue. The curators will reflect upon the beauty and challenges of iterative artistic and curatorial processes.

Curators: Katy Dammers, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, REDCAT; Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Cynthia Post Hunt, Curator, Performance, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, ICA LA; Lumi Tan, independent curator and writer; and Tara Aisha Willis, Getty Research Institute African American Art History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow.

Moderator: Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, ICA LA.

What does it mean to present an artwork that is conceived to change and evolve over time and context? This panel discussion brings together six curators who have been part of Will Rawls’ [siccer] — from its original commission to the realization of its various presentations in museums and art organizations across the country. Using [siccer] as a case study, the curators will discuss how exhibitions are created and then adapted to the specificities of different spaces and the priorities for community engagement for each venue. The curators will reflect upon the beauty and challenges of iterative artistic and curatorial processes.

Curators: Katy Dammers, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, REDCAT; Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Cynthia Post Hunt, Curator, Performance, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, ICA LA; Lumi Tan, independent curator and writer; and Tara Aisha Willis, Getty Research Institute African American Art History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow.

Moderator: Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, ICA LA.

Katy Dammers (she/her) is the Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts at REDCAT, CalArts’ center for the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. Her curatorial practice presents, organizes, and contextualizes contemporary practice in performance commissions, exhibitions, festivals, site-specific installations, and publications. She has held past leadership positions at The Kitchen, FringeArts, and Jacob’s Pillow. Dammers has also worked as a creative administrator, and worked with choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener as General Manager from 2014-2022, in addition to organizing projects with Jennifer Monson, Donna Uchizono, and Tere O’Connor. A writing fellow at the National Center for Choreography Akron, her essays have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Motor Dance Journal, and MOLD as well as edited volumes by University of Akron Press and Princeton University Press. Dammers was a member of the Inland Academy and holds degrees from Goldsmiths College …
Katy Dammers (she/her) is the Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts at REDCAT, CalArts’ center for the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. Her curatorial practice presents, organizes, and contextualizes contemporary practice in performance commissions, exhibitions, festivals, site-specific installations, and publications. She has held past leadership positions at The Kitchen, FringeArts, and Jacob’s Pillow. Dammers has also worked as a creative administrator, and worked with choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener as General Manager from 2014-2022, in addition to organizing projects with Jennifer Monson, Donna Uchizono, and Tere O’Connor. A writing fellow at the National Center for Choreography Akron, her essays have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Motor Dance Journal, and MOLD as well as edited volumes by University of Akron Press and Princeton University Press. Dammers was a member of the Inland Academy and holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and Princeton University.
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Photo: Katy McCaffrey
Kristan Kennedy is an artist, curator, and educator. She is currently Artistic Director + Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Kennedy works to set the artistic vision for the organization, manage the Precipice Fund, create public programs and curate the Time-Based Art festival alongside Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Performance Erin Boberg - Doughton. Kennedy also directs PICA’s year-round Exhibition Program, where she focuses on commissioning and developing large-scale projects, publications, and happenings with artists that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy writes and lectures about art praxis, curatorial practice, and artist‐centric ethics within and outside of institutional frameworks. She has taught in various MFA programs across the country for the last decade teaching seminars, mentoring, and developing visiting artist programs. She currently teaches Contemporary Art and Critical Thinking at the Pacific Northwest Colle …
Kristan Kennedy is an artist, curator, and educator. She is currently Artistic Director + Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Kennedy works to set the artistic vision for the organization, manage the Precipice Fund, create public programs and curate the Time-Based Art festival alongside Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Performance Erin Boberg - Doughton. Kennedy also directs PICA’s year-round Exhibition Program, where she focuses on commissioning and developing large-scale projects, publications, and happenings with artists that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy writes and lectures about art praxis, curatorial practice, and artist‐centric ethics within and outside of institutional frameworks. She has taught in various MFA programs across the country for the last decade teaching seminars, mentoring, and developing visiting artist programs. She currently teaches Contemporary Art and Critical Thinking at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Kennedy sits on the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and works with other cultural institutions as a consultant helping them with organizational development and culture. She is a working artist who has exhibited internationally.
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Cynthia Post Hunt is a curator and artist based in Northwest Arkansas. Through a fluid practice of connection and collaboration, Post Hunt explores commonalities within the shared human experience. Practice as research, she creates rituals, games, and gestures surrounding the self, loss, and transformation. Time, memory, and the body are integral materials in her work. Post Hunt is deeply invested in the research and presentation of Live Art, working as the Curator of Performance at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & the Momentary and the co-founder of INVERSE Performance Art Festival.

She has organized and produced performances, installations and festivals in collaboration with artists such as Erika Chong Shuch, Rowena Richie and Ryan Tacata of For You Productions, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelyte, BANDALOOP, Marilyn Arsem, Jefferson Pinder, Rin Peisert, Rumwolf, La Pocha Nostra, Will Rawls, Matty Davis, and Jonathan González. From 2018-2022, …

Cynthia Post Hunt is a curator and artist based in Northwest Arkansas. Through a fluid practice of connection and collaboration, Post Hunt explores commonalities within the shared human experience. Practice as research, she creates rituals, games, and gestures surrounding the self, loss, and transformation. Time, memory, and the body are integral materials in her work. Post Hunt is deeply invested in the research and presentation of Live Art, working as the Curator of Performance at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & the Momentary and the co-founder of INVERSE Performance Art Festival.

She has organized and produced performances, installations and festivals in collaboration with artists such as Erika Chong Shuch, Rowena Richie and Ryan Tacata of For You Productions, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelyte, BANDALOOP, Marilyn Arsem, Jefferson Pinder, Rin Peisert, Rumwolf, La Pocha Nostra, Will Rawls, Matty Davis, and Jonathan González. From 2018-2022, Post Hunt was a partner on the Live in America festival. In 2024, Post Hunt co-curated POSTHUMAN Body, Ecology, and Technology, an International Conclave of Alternative Art at Utkal University of Culture, in Bhubaneswar, India.

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Amanda Sroka is a curator whose creative work focuses on global histories of contemporary art with a specialized interest in interdisciplinary practices that operate at the intersections of our personal, political, and material worlds. In 2022, she joined as the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles where she has organized presentations dedicated to the work of Carmen Argote, Jackie Castillo, Chris Emile and No)One. Art House, Will Rawls, Christine Sun Kim, Trương Công Tùng, and Alberta Whittle, and supported with Scientia Sexualis (2024), Barbara T. Smith: Proof (2023), and Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2023). She was previously Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she organized solo projects with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Martine Syms, Zoe Leonard, Senga Nengudi, Marisa Merz, Yael Bartana, and Jitish Kallat, as well as group exhibitions such as _Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from …
Amanda Sroka is a curator whose creative work focuses on global histories of contemporary art with a specialized interest in interdisciplinary practices that operate at the intersections of our personal, political, and material worlds. In 2022, she joined as the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles where she has organized presentations dedicated to the work of Carmen Argote, Jackie Castillo, Chris Emile and No)One. Art House, Will Rawls, Christine Sun Kim, Trương Công Tùng, and Alberta Whittle, and supported with Scientia Sexualis (2024), Barbara T. Smith: Proof (2023), and Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2023). She was previously Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she organized solo projects with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Martine Syms, Zoe Leonard, Senga Nengudi, Marisa Merz, Yael Bartana, and Jitish Kallat, as well as group exhibitions such as Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia. Prior to that, Sroka was a curatorial assistant at the New Museum in New York.
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Lumi Tan is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is the curator for the Focus section of Frieze New York, and the curator for the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. She recently served as the Curatorial Director of Luna Luna, a revival of the world’s first art amusement park created by André Heller in 1987 and exhibited in Los Angeles in 2024. Previously, she was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, New York, where over a twelve-year tenure, she organized exhibitions and produced performances with artists including Kevin Beasley, Meriem Bennani, Gretchen Bender, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autumn Knight, Moor Mother, Sondra Perry, The Racial Imaginary Institute, Tina Satter, Kenneth Tam, Danh Vo, and Anicka Yi. Tan has also held positions at the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, France; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; and MoMA/P.S.1, New York. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, _Cura, Art in …
Lumi Tan is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is the curator for the Focus section of Frieze New York, and the curator for the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. She recently served as the Curatorial Director of Luna Luna, a revival of the world’s first art amusement park created by André Heller in 1987 and exhibited in Los Angeles in 2024. Previously, she was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, New York, where over a twelve-year tenure, she organized exhibitions and produced performances with artists including Kevin Beasley, Meriem Bennani, Gretchen Bender, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autumn Knight, Moor Mother, Sondra Perry, The Racial Imaginary Institute, Tina Satter, Kenneth Tam, Danh Vo, and Anicka Yi. Tan has also held positions at the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, France; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; and MoMA/P.S.1, New York. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, Cura, Art in America, and numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She was the recipient of 2020 VIA Art Fund Curatorial Fellowship, and has been visiting faculty at the School of Visual Arts, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and Yale School of Art.
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Tara Aisha Willis, Ph.D. is a dancer, writer, and curator. She is a 2024-25 Getty Research Institute African American Art History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and serves as Curator of Dance/Theater at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (EMPAC). Her writings have been published by Center; Danspace Project; Center for Book Arts; liquid blackness; MCA Chicago; Black Scholar; Women & Performance; Performance Research; Brooklyn Rail; and co-edited artist books through Wendy’s Subway and forthcoming from Soberscove Press. She has performed for artists like Will Rawls, Yanira Castro, and Paulina Olowska, collaborated with Damon Locks, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Zachary Nicol, and belongs to the “Bessie” Award-winning Skeleton Architecture improvisation collective.
Tara Aisha Willis, Ph.D. is a dancer, writer, and curator. She is a 2024-25 Getty Research Institute African American Art History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and serves as Curator of Dance/Theater at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (EMPAC). Her writings have been published by Center; Danspace Project; Center for Book Arts; liquid blackness; MCA Chicago; Black Scholar; Women & Performance; Performance Research; Brooklyn Rail; and co-edited artist books through Wendy’s Subway and forthcoming from Soberscove Press. She has performed for artists like Will Rawls, Yanira Castro, and Paulina Olowska, collaborated with Damon Locks, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Zachary Nicol, and belongs to the “Bessie” Award-winning Skeleton Architecture improvisation collective.
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Anne Ellegood has been the Good Works Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, since September 2019. She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009 to 2019 and has held curatorial posts at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the New Museum. Recent curatorial projects include Witch Hunt (2021, co-curated with Connie Butler), Made in L.A. 2018 (co-curated with Erin Christovale), and Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World (2017). Ellegood serves on the Board of Directors of JOAN and on advisory committees for the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA) and Protocinema. She was a 2020 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership and, the same year, co-founded the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition, a coalition of small to mid-size visual arts organizations formed to provide mutual support, engage in shared fundraising and professional development, and advocate for our sector.
Anne Ellegood has been the Good Works Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, since September 2019. She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009 to 2019 and has held curatorial posts at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the New Museum. Recent curatorial projects include Witch Hunt (2021, co-curated with Connie Butler), Made in L.A. 2018 (co-curated with Erin Christovale), and Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World (2017). Ellegood serves on the Board of Directors of JOAN and on advisory committees for the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA) and Protocinema. She was a 2020 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership and, the same year, co-founded the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition, a coalition of small to mid-size visual arts organizations formed to provide mutual support, engage in shared fundraising and professional development, and advocate for our sector.
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