I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode, we talk with Paul O'Neill. We discuss Paul’s professional trajectory from being an artist to becoming a curator; the many different modes one can work as a curator; the notion of failure as a threshold of learning, and accumulative exhibition models.

Dr. Paul O’Neill is an Irish curator, artist, writer and educator. He is the Artistic Director of PUBLICS, a position he took up in September 2017. PUBLICS is a curatorial agency and event space with a dedicated library, and reading room in Helsinki. Between 2013-17, he was Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York. He is author of the critically acclaimed book The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), (Cambridge, MASS., The MIT Press, 2012), which has been translated into many languages. His most recent coedited book is Curating After the Global: Roadmaps to the Present published with MIT Press, 2019.

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The episode was recorded in March 2022.

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People mentioned in this episode:Eduardo Padilha - https://eduardopadilha.com/bard-college/B+BSarah Pierce https://themetropolitancomplex.com/ Kathrin Böhm https://kathrinbohm.info/

Institutions mentioned in this episode:PUBLICS https://www.publics.fi/ Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College https://ccs.bard.edu/ The Hessel Museum of Art https://ccs.bard.edu/museum SMART project space https://arcam.nl/architectuur-gids/smart-project-space/

Exhibitions mentioned in this episodeCoalesce: With All Due Intent https://www.pauloneill.org.uk/www.pauloneill.org.uk/curatorial/projects/index.html Coalesce-Happenstance https://www.pauloneill.org.uk/www.pauloneill.org.uk/curatorial/projects/coalesce-happenstance/index.htmlWe are the Center for Curatorial Studies https://www.pauloneill.org.uk/www.pauloneill.org.uk/curatorial/projects/center-curatorial-studies/index.html