Nora N. Khan Named Executive Director of Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism
Critic, curator, and editor Nora N. Khan has been tapped to guide the Challenge X Basis for Artwork & Criticism, writer of X-TRA Modern Artwork Journal, LA’s longest-running arts criticism journal. Khan, who makes a speciality of supporting and shaping long-form criticism, has traditionally centered experimental practices and is especially curious about digital visible tradition, the politics of software program, and the philosophy of rising expertise. She replaces outgoing govt director Shana Lutker, who departed in 2021 after seventeen years with the group.
“We stay up for working with Nora at this momentous juncture within the historical past of X-TRA, as we strategy our twenty-fifth anniversary,” mentioned Jeff Beall, founding chair of Challenge X Basis. “Together with her deep expertise in artwork criticism, publishing, and curatorial venture administration, Khan is completely poised to information the group into the subsequent chapters of our historical past. We’re assured that Nora will assist us assume boldly about how X-TRA can place itself as a mannequin for criticism, artists’ writing, and mentorship of younger critics.”
Khan from 2018 to 2021 was a professor at Rhode Island College of Design, the place she was nominated for the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Instructing in recognition of her unique programs on technological criticism, artists’ writing, and important concept. With Andrea Bellini, she is cocurating the 2023 Biennale de L’Picture en Mouvement, hosted by Centre d’Artwork Contemporain Genève. She curated the 2020 exhibition “Handbook Override” at The Shed, in New York, which included important new commissions by Sondra Perry and Morehshin Allahyari and works by Simon Fujiwara and Martine Syms. Khan has contributed to publications together with Artforum and Artwork in America and has held varied editorial roles at Topical Cream, HOLO, and Rhizome.
“X-TRA has a singular historical past that has made it synonymous with critical criticism in Los Angeles and on the West Coast,” she mentioned in a press release. “Established by artists for artists, it has grown to be a cultural establishment with an distinctive deal with artists figuring out the phrases of criticism as a lot as established critics. The editors and workers are fiercely dedicated to publishing the very best degree of writing in a area of quickly dwindling areas for crucial pondering in print. The final years have introduced us right into a tumultuous publishing area. This solely affirms how important it’s to take care of the well being and attain of journals like X-TRA, which have tirelessly labored to make criticism an lively, lived, collective exercise. I’m significantly trying ahead to collaborating with X-TRA’s sensible editorial board, our dedicated workers, and the Challenge X Basis board to create a sustainable future for the important work of writers and artists.”
