EventsThe New Social Environment#1345

The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant

Featuring Marian Chudnovsky, Paulo Miyada, Manuela Moscoso, Ana Roman, and Daisy Desrosiers

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Marian Chudnovsky, Paulo Miyada, Manuela Moscoso, and Ana Roman join art historian and curator Daisy Desrosiers for a conversation on Zoom.

Marian Chudnovsky

A photo of Marian Chudnovsky on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Marian Chudnovsky is a researcher, writer, and curator from Queens, NY. She is Curatorial Assistant at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) and Research and Administrative Coordinator at Wendy’s Subway.

    Paulo Miyada

    A photo of Paulo Miyada on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Paulo Miyada (São Paulo, 1985) is a curator and researcher of contemporary art. He holds a master’s degree in architecture and Urbanism from FAU-USP and has been the Artistic Director of the Tomie Ohtake Institute (São Paulo, 2020-2026) and an Associate Curator at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2021-2025). He was Associate Curator of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2020–2021) and the 34th Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM-SP (2015), as well as Curatorial Assistant for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo (2010). 

    Manuela Moscoso

    A photo of Manuela Moscoso on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Manuela Moscoso is the inaugural Executive and Artistic Director of the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) and, in 2025, curated the 2ª Bienal das Amazônias. Formerly the curator of the Liverpool Biennial (2021) and a senior curator at Museo Tamayo, Moscoso focuses her work on relational, political, and embodied approaches to contemporary art and institutions.

    Ana Roman

    A photo of Ana Roman on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Ana Roman is Artistic Superintendent and curator at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake and a PhD candidate at FAU-USP. Her research and curatorial practice focus on contemporary art, institutional critique, and decolonial thought, with a background in Geography and postgraduate studies in Brazilian Studies. At Instituto Tomie Ohtake, she co-curated Ensaios para o Museu das Origens (2023/24), Carlito Carvalhosa: A metade do dobro (2024), and A terra, o fogo, a água e os ventos – Por um Museu da Errância com Édouard Glissant (2025). She was curator at Pivô (2022-23) and part of the curatorial team for the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. Her work approaches exhibition-making as a critical, pedagogical, and institution-building practice.

      Daisy Desrosiers

      A photo of Daisy Desrosiers on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

      Courtesy of Jane Kratochvil

      Daisy Desrosiers is an interdisciplinary art historian, curator, and museum leader who most recently served as a co-curator of the 15th Shanghai Biennale, working with artists from across the world on one of the most significant international exhibitions of contemporary art. She is Director and Chief Curator of The Gund at Kenyon College, a teaching museum dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art and visual culture, where she has led its curatorial and institutional vision since 2021. Her recent curatorial projects and collaborations include work with artists such as Joan Jonas, Claudia Alarcón & Silät, among others. Desrosiers' practice centers on artist voices as modes of learning and unlearning, advancing the museum as a space shaped by dialogue, care, and experimentation.

        We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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