LAUREL PTAK

Curator, NYC + STHLM


Right now thinking about intellectual property; art's
relationship to labor; the possibilities and limits of
online space as a deterritorialized form of public space

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‘Seminar Room Three’ is an exhibition project in collaboration with the 2011 graduating class of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and designer Eric Nylund. Conceived as a discursive space inside Bard’s Hessel Museum, Seminar Room Three hosted screenings, discussions, classes and public events related to students’ thesis projects. All of the objects inside the space were reclaimed and repurposed from previous exhibitions that had taken place inside the museum during the two years they were students there and aptly footnoted to explain the various, shifting and often contradictory functions and meanings of such objects inside this pedagogical environment.

‘Seminar Room Three’ is an exhibition project in collaboration with the 2011 graduating class of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and designer Eric Nylund. Conceived as a discursive space inside Bard’s Hessel Museum, Seminar Room Three hosted screenings, discussions, classes and public events related to students’ thesis projects. All of the objects inside the space were reclaimed and repurposed from previous exhibitions that had taken place inside the museum during the two years they were students there and aptly footnoted to explain the various, shifting and often contradictory functions and meanings of such objects inside this pedagogical environment.