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To apply to the Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice Program, Please complete The New Centre's Application Form.

The New Centre's Art and Curatorial Program investigates theories and practices of contemporary art from a global perspective, understanding "perspective" both as a mode of representation and as a particular attitude toward the world. Central to the Program is the concept of the "intercentric" or the idea that there exist multiple, distributed points of view, connected fragment to fragment rather than whole to whole. Drawing on contributions from experts across diverse cultures, traditions, disciplines, and institutional positions—from museums to self-organized spaces, emerging practitioners to established figures—the Program offers a polyphonic mosaic of contrapuntal perspectives. Like pointillist painting, where autonomous elements combine only in the eye of the beholder, meaning emerges through the sum of individual contributions rather than any predetermined synthesis.

The Program approaches artmaking and curating as forms of care, examining both their ethical possibilities and their entanglements with dominance and exploitation. Students will explore the tensions between political imagination and real-politics, self-organized production and institutional careers, artistic creativity and critical discourse, as well as the fraught transitions from studio to public sphere and the neuroses that attend the choice between being "good" and being "successful." Above all, the Program addresses the challenge of orientation and survival in a contemporary moment that lacks stable critical categories, equipping students with strategies for navigating a fragmented cultural landscape where the journey itself becomes the destination.

REQUIREMENTS: All certificate students will complete ten credits of seminars with The New Centre, with a minimum of four having to be taught by the Programmer of their Certificate of choice. The two remaining credits will consist of a consultancy with our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, and the proposal, production, and publication of at least one full-length essay in a reputable online or print periodical venue or a substantial artistic or curatorial project with a reputable institution. The Programmer will supervise this project in two meetings which must be scheduled after completing the Seminar credits requirements. The certificate Programmer will closely assist all Certificate Students in achieving these requirements and liaising with potential publications, project execution, and internship venues.

To apply, complete The New Centre's Application Form.