Artist-in-Residence
Pip Day
Pip Day is a curator, writer, educator and advisor based in Berlin with a practice of long-term collaborative research, programming, mentorship and change-making within cultural institutions. As Director/Curator at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal between 2012 and 2020, she developed dozens of exhibitions, events, pedagogical platforms and collaborative actions as well as long-term research programs including Sovereignty; Água Viva (after Clarice Lispector); and Colors: for 14 women’s voices (after Julius Eastman). From early career work with public art at InSite along the San Diego/Tijuana border (1997) to the collaboratively curated Santa Fe Biennial (2016), the Berlin Biennial’s Curators’ Workshop (2020) and the current project ‘Infrastructure as Solidarity/Solidarity as Infrastructure’, the specific socio- and geo-political necessities of place are at the centre of Pip’s practice.
Pip was recipient of the 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship for the project Spatial Practices in Revolution at Centro Tlatelolco, Mexico City. She founded the research organization el-instituto in Mexico City in 2008 and was co-founder and director of teratoma’s city-wide Residencias Internacionales en México (RIM) and Estudios Curatoriales, the first curatorial studies program in Latin America, both in 2002. Prior to that Pip was Curator at Artists Space in New York City. Pip has taught on curatorial MFA programs at Bard College, the RCA and Goldsmiths, and has published and lectured extensively across Europe and the Americas. Artists, writers and curators Pip has collaborated with include Anna Boghiguian, Dana Michel, Ursula Johnson, Jackie Wang, Zacharias Kunuk, Irmgard Emmelhainz, María Berríos, Pablo Lafuente, Suzanne Kite, Harun Farocki, Sepake Angiama, Atelier Céladon, Layli Long Soldier, Maria Hupfield, Sarah Pierce, Tania Bruguera, Pablo Sigg, Ashon Crawley and many others.