Bruce Ferguson
in Conversation with Ahmet Öğüt
Salt Beyoğlu
September 16, 2011 14.00
This conversation is realized in the context of the Across the Slope exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu. Bruce Ferguson and Ahmet Öğüt will discuss Öğüt’s recent project Once upon a time a clock-watcher during overtime hours at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome.
Bruce Ferguson is the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. A curator, critic and academic administrator for more than 30 years, he has extensive management experience in both arts and academic organizations. Prior to his work with AUC, Ferguson led Future Arts Research (F.A.R.) at the University of Arizona and served as the dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. He is the founding director of SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and curator of its First International Biennial.
Ferguson has curated exhibitions for institutions including the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Galleries in Canada and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. A prolific writer, he has contributed to art publications Canadian Art, Art Forum, Art in America, Art + Text, Flash Art, BOMB Magazine, Art Press, Borders Crossing and Parachute. With Reesa Greenberg and Sandy Nairne, he received a Getty Senior Research Fellowship grant, which resulted in the publication of a seminal anthology of essays on the theory of exhibitions, titled Thinking About Exhibitions (Routledge, 1996).
Ferguson is presently working on an essay on Ahmet Öğüt for the catalogue of the exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani.
Bruce Ferguson is the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. A curator, critic and academic administrator for more than 30 years, he has extensive management experience in both arts and academic organizations. Prior to his work with AUC, Ferguson led Future Arts Research (F.A.R.) at the University of Arizona and served as the dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. He is the founding director of SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and curator of its First International Biennial.
Ferguson has curated exhibitions for institutions including the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Galleries in Canada and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. A prolific writer, he has contributed to art publications Canadian Art, Art Forum, Art in America, Art + Text, Flash Art, BOMB Magazine, Art Press, Borders Crossing and Parachute. With Reesa Greenberg and Sandy Nairne, he received a Getty Senior Research Fellowship grant, which resulted in the publication of a seminal anthology of essays on the theory of exhibitions, titled Thinking About Exhibitions (Routledge, 1996).
Ferguson is presently working on an essay on Ahmet Öğüt for the catalogue of the exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani.
