Maria Lind, Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Anandale-on-Huson, NY. Now leading one of the most important curatorial training courses, Maria Lind is an acclaimed curator who was formerly Director of the Kunstverein München (2002– 04) where she ran experimental programme involving artists such as Annika Eriksson, Deimantas Narkevicius, Marion von Osten, Philippe Parreno, and others, which included: a year-long retrospective with Christine Borland (2002– 03), showing one piece at a time, and a retrospective project in the form of a seven-day workshop with Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004).

Detours is an ongoing series of talks presenting views from elsewhere by leading curators, critics and museum directors. Speakers explore the connection between practice and context: looking at how different institutions and professional practices have taken shape in relation to specific places or situations. To date speakers have included Juliana Engberg, Alex Farquharson, Richard Flood, Vasif Kortun, Jenni Lomax, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Polly Staple, and Adam Szymczyk. Detours is a collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art (School of Fine Art).