Helena Reckitt, curator of Flux Night 2013
Flux Projects just announced today that Helena Reckitt, an internationally respected curator and critic, is its curator for Flux Night 2013, Atlanta’s fourth annual night of art + experimentation, scheduled for Saturday, October 5, 2013.
From Anne Dennington, the executive director of Flux Projects:
“We had always planned to grow the event to include a major outside curator, and a grant from the LUBO Fund and sponsorship from MailChimp have enabled us to initiate this program this year. Reckitt’s familiarity with Atlanta and her recent experience as a curator for Toronto’s 2012 Nuit Blanche, the event upon which Flux Night was modeled, make her the ideal first choice.
By working with respected curators from around the world, we hope to attract new artists and enhance the event’s profile in Atlanta and beyond. We have had three very successful years, but it’s time to raise the bar.”
Flux Night 2013 will have two categories of projects: curated projects selected directly by Reckitt and proposed projects selected from an open call for proposals by a committee that will include Reckitt along with Flux Projects staff and board. The call will be released in the coming week, and artists will apply through CaFÉ.
Reckitt said in today’s press release:
“Flux Night has become a vital event in the Atlanta arts calendar, and I am honored to be joining the organization as its first external curator for the 2013 edition. My curatorial theme, Free Association, evokes the pleasure of mixing and mingling at street level that is central to Flux Night, and that car-centric Atlanta does not always afford. It also points to the strong history of digital art and collective activity within the city. Having lived in Atlanta for seven years until 2005, I am looking forward to reconnecting with the artists and arts community, and to introducing artists from elsewhere whose work will, I hope, resonate within this context.”
More information as it arises will be available on Flux Projects and Facebook.
About the curator:
Helena Reckitt is an independent curator and critic based in London, UK. Formerly Senior Curator of Programs at the Power Plant Toronto, she has held curatorial and programming positions at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and was an associate editor at Routledge publishers. Reckitt was one of three curators for Toronto’s 2012 Nuit Blanche. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions with artists including Yael Bartana, Keren Cytter, Harrell Fletcher, Joachim Koester, Ryan Trecartin, Paul Shambroom, and Carey Young. Her group exhibitions have explored inter-species relations (‘Adaptation’, 2010), memory and re-enactment (‘Not Quite How I Remember It’, 2008), and corporate and academic behavior (‘What Business Are You In?’, 2005). She is currently Senior Lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths College, London.
