Lance Fung Interview

From Artist Organized Art

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As of	2008/05/03
Author(s)	Joshua Selman, Erika Knerr
Benefits	artists, general public
Boroughs	Manhattan
Cities	New York City, Torino, Barcelona, Sofia, Toronto, Beijing, Melbourne, Victoria, Santa Fe, Vienna, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Milan, Mexico City, Seoul, Warsaw, Gateshead, Paris, Cairo, Los Angeles
Countries	USA, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Australia, Austria, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Korea, Poland, Japan, England, France, Egypt
Full Article	Full Article
Mentions	Lance Fung, Allan Kaprow, Billy Klüver, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Ferran Barenblit, Iara Boubnova, Gregory Burke, Colin Chinnery, Alexie Glass, Lukasz Gorczyca, Michal Kaczynski, Laura Steward Heon, Barbara Holub, Vasif Kortun, Chus Martinez, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Martina Mazzotta, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Tsukasa Mori, Yuu Takehisa, Joseph Sanchez, Patrizia Sandretto, Guillermo Santamarina, Hyunjin Shin, Alessandro Vincentelli, Marc-Olivier Wahler, William Wells, Martí Anson, Fabio Cirifino, Paolo Rosa, Stefano Roveda, Leonardo Sangiorgi, Erick Beltrán, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Michal Budny, Ricarda Denzer, Hiroshi Fuji, Fabien Giraud, Piero Golia, Soun Myung Hong, Scott Lyall, Nick Mangan, Eliza Naranjo-Morse, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Ahmet Ögüt, Mandla Reuter, Nadine Robinson, Zbigniew Rogalski, Wael Shawky, Raphaël Siboni, Rose B. Simpson, Shi Qing, Jeanne & Michael L. Klein, Marlene Nathan Meyerson, Anne & John Marion, Margarita & Albert Waxman, Karen & Steve Berkowitz, Virginia Dwan, Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro, Jeanne & Jim Manning, Mary Lawrence Porter, Margaret Robson, Alice C. Simkins, Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee, Dottie & Dick Barrett, Cornelia Bryer & Herman Siegelaar, Bobbie Foshay, Marian T. Fung & Family, Katherine & James Gentry, Mari & Peter Kooi, Mihail S. Lari & Scott E. Murray, Rosina Lee Yue & Dr. Bert Lies, Toby D. Lewis, Joanne N. McCarthy, Alicia & Bill Miller, Cindy Miscikowski & Doug Ring, Rita & Kent Norton, Lorlee & Arnold Tenenbaum, Kathy & Charles Webster, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman & Dwight Strong, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Gay Block & Rabbi Malka Drucker, Tina & Robert J. Denison, Sally & Thomas Dunning, Judith & Richard Greer, Pat T. Hall, Amanda & Keith Innes, Jeri Berger Hertzman & Dr. Philip Hertzman, Mary Kahlenberg & Rob Coffland, Carol Prins & John H. Hart, Crennan & David K. Ray, Courtney F. & Scott Taylor, Susan Steinhauser & Daniel Greenberg, David Teiger, Bebe Woolley & Daniel Gorski, Sandy Zane & Ned Bennett, UBS Financial Services, Houston Sotheby's, Landfall Press, James Kelly, Cornelia Bryer & Herman Siegelaar, Bill Richardson David Coss, Dr. Indrasen Vencatachellum Chief of Section for Arts, Crafts & Design, Ambassador Dennis Richardson Embassy of Australia, Ambassador Eva Nowotny Embassy of Austria, Consul General Alain Dudoit Embassy of Canada, Ambassador Pierre Vimont Embassy of France, Ambassador Klaus Scharioth Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mariusz M. Brymora Culture & Public Affairs Counselor Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Kenneth Bachicha, Veronica Black, Jeana Francis, Jason Jaacks, Carlo Martinez, Megan Fisher McHugh, Marni Samuels, Paul Conley, Eliot Fisher, Robert Drummond, Miriam Langer, Tony O'Brien, Carlos Peinado
Neighborhoods	SoHo, Santa Fe
Organizations	Fung Collaboratives, Santa Fe Lucky 7, Lance Fung Gallery, Ryszard Wasko and The International Artists Museum, Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Guard Intermedia Festivals, Fluxus, Holly Solomon Gallery, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (CASM), Institute of Contemporary Art, The Power Plant, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Centre for International Cultural Exchange, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Stowarzyszenie Integracji Kultury (Association of Cultural Integration), SITE Santa Fe, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, El Museo Experimental, SSamzie Space, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, The Townhouse Gallery, Studio Azzurro, The Burnett Foundation, Millstream Fund, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Gebert Contemporary & Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, SITE Unseen 5, Arts Council Korea, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York Canadian Council of the Arts, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles Institut, Ramon Llull Italian Cultural Institute, The Japan Foundation, Polish Cultural Institute, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Santa Fe Art Institute, UNESCO, 1005-G Alto Street Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Institute of American Indian Arts, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art, National Dance Institute, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe Opera School for Advanced Research, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs' Office of Media Initiatives & students from the College of Santa Fe, NM Highlands University & Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Warehouse 21, NMHU Media Arts Program, CSF Documentary Studies Program, IAIA New Media Arts Program, Artist Organized Art
Regions	Big Apple
States	New York, New Mexico, California
Subject(s)	interview
Supports	event, media, cultural education
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

"Lance Fung Interviewed: Creating Community at Lucky Number 7" full article

This Artist Organized Art interview with curator Lance Fung is conducted by Joshua Selman and Erika Knerr, on March 30, 2008 at Lance's SOHO loft in Manhattan. It weaves together formative influences behind his first International Biennial, Lucky Number 7, at Site Santa Fe, opening June 20-22, 2008. The interview precedes a pot luck dinner at his loft attended by his core community of friends and family. Gathering at the space several times a year, most among them are former Lance Fung Gallery artists.

Here are two excerpts from the full interview:

AOA: The question was if your way of curating is considered to be a reverse engineering of the normal curatorial process, and where the curatorial function of the institutional partners fits in?

LF: I wouldn't say it's a reverse procedure, because that would mean there would have to be strategy to my work, there's no method to my madness, I am who I am. I act, say, speak, think, write, dress, the way I do, you couldn't, and I'm forty five now, so I don't actually give a damn what people think of me, I get it when Holly Solomon said she didn't care --“I'm Holly Solomon,” -- well finally now I'm Lance Fung, you like it, you don't, can it be improved? Yes. Will I change it your way? Maybe, maybe not, and this is the point of being free as an artist and curator, as an individual, its not that you're like “oh everyone doesn't know what they're talking about…” but it's just that you're not concerned about pleasing someone, and by not trying to please someone you have a greater chance of pleasing someone, because you're grounded, you're satisfied, you have something to give, so I don't think so, now surely that most people would look at it that way, because it isn't the way most people would curate a show, I do see, however, a trend in people, a trend with younger curators trying to curate. In approaching their new practices in the way that I live my life, so I'm not necessarily saying they're copying me, but collaboration is coming up quite often now, but in a very different way and typically in a very superficial way, but what's nice is I think that my work has somehow seeped into the way people are looking at things, including some of the seasoned curators. Because, you can't work in an antiquated mode, and that's why people are trying, the art speak is becoming less and people are doing more common speak when they're talking about a show. Or, they're having a greater awareness of the general public in appreciating the work where, in fact, after the fact, I realized that was the main audience for The Snow Show, and that's what made it so profound, so I don't know, that's not for me to answer...

www.fungcollaboratives.org
www.santafelucky7.com

Lance Fung, Lucky Number 7, The Snow Show, Lance Fung Gallery, Construction In Process, Ryszard Wasko and The International Artists Museum, Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Guard Intermedia Festivals, Allan Kaprow, Billy Klüver, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Fluxus, Construction In Process, New York City, Lapland, Torino, Italy, Holly Solomon Gallery, Ferran Barenblit, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (CASM), Barcelona, Spain, Iara Boubnova, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, Gregory Burke, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, Colin Chinnery, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, Centre for International Cultural Exchange, China, Alexie Glass, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Lukasz Gorczyca, Michal Kaczynski, Stowarzyszenie Integracji Kultury (Association of Cultural Integration), Warsaw, Poland, Laura Steward Heon, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, Barbara Holub, Secession, Vienna, Austria, Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Chus Martinez, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Martina Mazzotta, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milan, Italy, Tsukasa Mori and Yuu Takehisa, Art Tower Mito, Japan, Joseph Sanchez, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA), Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, Patrizia Sandretto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, Guillermo Santamarina, El Museo Experimental, Mexico City, Mexico, Hyunjin Shin, SSamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea, Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, William Wells, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, Martí Anson, Studio Azzurro, Fabio Cirifino, Paolo Rosa, Stefano Roveda, Leonardo Sangiorgi, Erick Beltrán, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Michal Budny, Ricarda Denzer, Hiroshi Fuji, Fabien Giraud, Piero Golia, Soun Myung Hong, Scott Lyall, Nick Mangan, Eliza Naranjo-Morse, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Ahmet Ögüt, Mandla Reuter, Nadine Robinson, Zbigniew Rogalski, Wael Shawky, Raphaël Siboni, Rose B. Simpson, Shi Qing, Jeanne & Michael L. Klein, Marlene Nathan Meyerson, Anne & John Marion, The Burnett Foundation Margarita & Albert Waxman, Karen & Steve Berkowitz, Virginia Dwan, Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro, Jeanne & Jim Manning, Millstream Fund, Mary Lawrence Porter, Margaret Robson, Alice C. Simkins, Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee, Dottie & Dick Barrett, Cornelia Bryer & Herman Siegelaar, Bobbie Foshay, Marian T. Fung & Family, Katherine & James Gentry, Mari & Peter Kooi, Mihail S. Lari & Scott E. Murray, Rosina Lee Yue & Dr. Bert Lies, Toby D. Lewis, Joanne N. McCarthy, Alicia & Bill Miller, Cindy Miscikowski & Doug Ring, Rita & Kent Norton, Lorlee & Arnold Tenenbaum, Kathy & Charles Webster, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman & Dwight Strong, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Gay Block & Rabbi Malka Drucker, Tina & Robert J. Denison, Sally & Thomas Dunning, Judith & Richard Greer, Pat T. Hall, Amanda & Keith Innes, Jeri Berger Hertzman & Dr. Philip Hertzman, Mary Kahlenberg & Rob Coffland, Carol Prins & John H. Hart, Crennan & David K. Ray, Courtney F. & Scott Taylor, Susan Steinhauser & Daniel Greenberg, David Teiger, Bebe Woolley & Daniel Gorski, Sandy Zane & Ned Bennett, UBS Financial Services, Houston Sotheby's, Gebert Contemporary & Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Landfall Press, James Kelly and SITE Unseen 5, Arts Council Korea, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York Canadian Council of the Arts, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles Institut, Ramon Llull Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, The Japan Foundation, Polish Cultural Institute, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Cornelia Bryer & Herman Siegelaar, Santa Fe Art Institute, Bill Richardson David Coss, Dr. Indrasen Vencatachellum Chief of Section for Arts, Crafts & Design, UNESCO, Ambassador Dennis Richardson Embassy of Australia, Ambassador Eva Nowotny Embassy of Austria, Consul General Alain Dudoit Embassy of Canada, Ambassador Pierre Vimont Embassy of France, Ambassador Klaus Scharioth Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mariusz M. Brymora Culture & Public Affairs Counselor Embassy of the Republic of Poland, 1005-G Alto Street Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Institute of American Indian Arts, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art, National Dance Institute, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, Palace of the Governors Santa Fe Opera School for Advanced Research, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs' Office of Media Initiatives & students from the College of Santa Fe, NM Highlands University & Institute of American Indian Arts Santa Fe Art Institute, Warehouse 21, Kenneth Bachicha, Veronica Black, Jeana Francis, Jason Jaacks, Carlo Martinez, Megan Fisher McHugh, Marni Samuels, Paul Conley, Eliot Fisher, Robert Drummond, Miriam Langer, NMHU Media Arts Program, Tony O'Brien, CSF Documentary Studies Program, Carlos Peinado, IAIA New Media Arts Program

Neighborhoods
SoHo Santa Fe

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