EDUCATION
PhD Candidate Ingesting the Hydrocene: Watery thinking for curatorial response-ability to the climate crisis
Supervisors: A/Prof Felicity Fenner and Professor Marie Sierra
Doctoral researcher within Art, Design and Media, University of New South Wales. Sydney/Stockholm, Feb 2019 – ongoing
Mejan Resident, Post-graduate ‘Advanced Level’ artistic research position (60 credit points) Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sept 2014 – June 2016
CuratorLab, Curatorial research program (60 credit points) Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sept 2013 – June 2014
Curators Program, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney with Chinese curator Qui Zhijie, organized by then 4A Director Aaron Seto, Sydney, Jan 2012 – Sept 2012
Curatorial Mentorship, Next Wave Festival and Gertrude Contemporary with Alexie Glass-Kantor at Gertrude Contemporary, organized by Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival Emily Sexton, Melbourne, June 2011 – June 2012
Masters of Arts Administration, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Including special project and internship with curator Felicity Fenner, Venice Biennale, Venice and Sydney, Jan 2008 – June 2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Double degree in Time Based Arts and Film, Performance and Theatre, Jan 2003 – Dec 2007
SELECT CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2021 – Soil Symposium, at Accelerator, Stockholm University with Kultivator artist and agriculture collective, Janna Holmsted and Malin Lobell
2020 – A Golden Age: Pulse, Throb, Drift, solo exhibition and public program of Rosana Antoli, Centro Centro, Madrid
2020 – Precipitational Learning in the Hydrocene, conference presentation and peer-reviewed journal article for ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art + Design Schools), Australia
2020 – Art + Research: Art and Walking, program for Accelerator, Stockholm University promoting transdiciplinary thinking departing from Tino Seghal’s work, This progress.
2020 – Art + Research: Progress and Collaboration, program for Accelerator, Stockholm University promoting transdiciplinary thinking departing from Tino Seghal’s work, This progress.
2019 – Art + Research: On Deep Time in conversation with Prof. Christina Fredengren in relation to Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition at Accelerator
2019 – Djup Tid, exhibition with artists Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione, Sam Smith, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Sormlands Museum, Nykoping
2019 – Within Deep Time, exhibition and public program, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney
2019 – Roxy Farhat, solo exhibition and public program, Index, Stockholm
2018 – Seminar, The Urge, The Echo: Reverberations of Learning Practices, Index, Stockholm. Curator of the seminar including workshops, screenings, readings and presentations: Performance from Sindri Runudde, Forest Law by Ursula Biemann, Pirámides/Pyramids by Pilar Álvarez and Mercedes Álvarez, Memory Piece workshop with Frida Sandstrom, The Camouflage Society by Gabo Camnitzer, Second Gift by Aurélien Froment, Kids Looking Busy workshop with Emmeli Person and Jemina Lindholm, Walking with the Trouble walk-shop with Tina Carlsson and Simon Ceder, Sensory Futures with Marianna Feher and Olivia Berkowicz, Turning over the grounds of sgulS with Katja Aglert, Composting Utopian Archives with Marta Gil, Easton String Games by Olivia Plender, The Camouflage Society with Gabo Camnitzer and Precipitational Learning with interviews from E.A.R.T.H Lab, Centre for Creative Ecologies and Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology.
2018 – Group Exhibition, And Tomorrow And, Index, Stockholm artists include The Otolith Group, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Ursula Biemann, Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Kati Roover, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Soda_Jerk and Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja
2018 – Artificial Iris exhibition with artists Emmeli Person and Emelie Carlen, Peryton, Copenhagen
2018 – Liz Rosenfeld, Fuck Tree, artist talk and screening program, Film i Samtidskonsten, Stockholm
2018 – Janine Randerson, Waiho, Retreat, screening program, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm
2016 – Penelope and Lucinda, multi-channel video work and performance with Iris Smeds and Anna Kinbom, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2015 – Chantel Ackerman, talk and exhibition, Film I Samtidskonsten, Gerlesbergskolan, Bohuslan, Sweden
2014 – Prufrock (in three acts) with The Centre for Inefficiency (Storkyrkabadet, Index and Gallery Konstfack) Stockholm
2012 – The Specialists, curator with TLR Collective, Blindside, Melbourne
2012 – Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary with Jess Johnson, The Slow Art Collective and Marcin Wojak. Co-curator with Marcel Cooper Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2011 – Panoramarama, with TLR Collective, Somewhere Gallery, Melbourne
2010 – Assistant Curator Continuum – Traditional Practice in Contemporary Art, The Paper Mill, Sydney artists include Bindi Cole, Marilyn Timbery, Zerah Ahmed, Jenny Ellis
2009 – Assistant to Curator Felicity Fenner, Once Removed, Venice Biennale, Venice with artists Vernon Ah Kee, Ken & Julie Yonetani, and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
SELECT UNIVERSITY TEACHING
2020 – Lead lecturer and supervisor for Audiences and Participation 7.5 credit course, designing course, inviting guest lecturers and lecturing for the International Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University
2020 – Lead lecturer and supervisor for Methods and forms of writing in relation to artistic practice course, Dance Department, Stockholm University of the Arts
2020 – Guest lecturer at:
Masters of New Performative Practices, Uniarts Stockholm
Dance Department, Uniarts Stockholm
Curating in Context EU program, with Uniarts Stockholm
Lina Selander’s professors group, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Phd Opponent to choreographer Eleanor Bauer, MDT and Uniarts Stockholm
2020 – Curatorial mentorship for students in International Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University and Masters of Curatorial Practice, University of Bergen
2020 – Teaching text and writing as guest lecturer and supervisor in 2nd Year Course Specialisation, Stockholm University of the Arts
2019/20 – Guest lecturer and supervisor in the Circulating Book Project, Stockholm University of the Arts, Dance Department
2019/2020 – Curatorial mentorship for internship student, Masters in Curating Art, Stockholm University, within Art+Research program at Accelerator, Stockholm University
2019 – Guest lecturer within Narratives of Ecology media course, Södertörn University
2019 – Examinator and opponent, masters students in curatorial practice and visual communication, Konstfack and Stockholm University
2016, 2017 and 2018 – Methods and forms of writing in relation to artistic practice lecturer, Stockholm University of the Arts
2018 – Intimacy and Learning workshop at Konstfack Research Week
2018 – Dancing Museums seminar series with Stockholm University of the Arts and Index
2016 – 2018 – Mentor and thesis supervision for final year Bachelor of Dance solo project, Stockholm University of the Arts
2016 – 2017 – Roaming Writing Institute, initiator and teacher of monthly art writing class to artists and cultural workers in context specific locations, Stockholm
Image credit: Marabouparken Konsthall
