On conjunctions of safety and communion: A conversation on curatorial practice with Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza

 

Speaker: Curators Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza

Moderator: Prof Yongwoo Lee, CUHK

Date: 2022. October 17. 8:00pm ~ 9:30 pm (Hong Kong time) including Q&A 

Venue : CKB UG05, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Abstract: 

A conversation between curators Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza about their collaborative curatorial practice, and how it frames the relationships established with cultural institutions (such as Para Site, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Tankstation, and the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art). The conversation focuses on the different forms that a long-term research project has assumed, which work in the service of fostering artistic practices and expanding the horizons of the possible.

 

About the curators

Nomaduma Rosa Masilela is an artist, curator, and writer. Her work and interests focus on collective work and strategy; public and performance art; ideas of the uncanny, the absurd, the dissonant; and the ambivalent natures of authenticity, history, and identity production. She received an MA in art history and philosophy from Columbia University, New York in 2013. Her curatorial practice includes exhibitions and projects with Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2019), the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2018), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015–2016). She currently commits her writing and curatorial practice to critically supporting the work of queer- and femme-identifying artists from the global south and its diasporas. She is based in Berlin. https://www.nomadumasilela.com

Thiago de Paula Souza is a curator and educator interested in different configurations of knowledge and power that enable contradictions as well as in art and education’s ability to re-elaborate the past and produce new ethical codes that help us imagine a world where violence is no longer its foundation. He co-curated the 3rd edition of Frestas—Triennial of Arts, São Paulo (2020–2021), participated in the Post-academic Fellowship Program at Basis Voor Actuele Kunst (BAK) (2018–2019), and served on the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2018). He is currently a PhD candidate at HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg and a curatorial advisor for the 58th Carnegie International.

 

Nomaduma and Thiago began their curatorial collaboration at the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2018)

https://www.para-site.art/.../nomaduma-rosa-masilela.../

Current Para Site Exhibition, While we are embattled curated by Nomaduma and Thiago

https://www.para-site.art/exhibit.../while-we-are-embattled/ 

 

Join Zoom Meeting for participation (Oct 17, 2022 08:00 PM Hong Kong SAR time)

https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/98144710116...

Meeting ID: 981 4471 0116. Passcode: 171022

 

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=1755226
Enquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk