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Curatorial Activism, Part 2

Thursday, January 7, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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A conversation featuring legendary feminist curators Camille Morineau, Daria Khan, Catherine de Zegher, Rosa Martínez, Ann Sutherland Harris, moderated by Maura Reilly.

In this Talk

Please join us for our second installment of "Curatorial Activism," moderated by curator Maura Reilly, author of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating.

This will be an ongoing "Curatorial Activism" series taking place the first Thursday of each month. Stay tuned for more details!

Camille Morineau

A photo of Camille Morineau on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Valérie Archeno
The co-founder and director of AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), a French non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. With degrees from both the École normale supérieure and the Institut national du patrimoine, she has worked for twenty years in public cultural institutions in France, including ten years as curator of the contemporary collections at the musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris).

Daria Khan

A photo of Daria Khan on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Daria Khan is a founder and curator of Mimosa House, an independent non-profit gallery space in London.

Catherine de Zegher

A photo of Catherine de Zegher on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Catherine de Zegher is a Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and was the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gent (Belgium).

    Rosa Martínez

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    Rosa Martínez is an independent curator, writer and art collections consultant.

    Ann Sutherland Harris

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    Ann Sutherland Harris’s research and teaching has embraced a wide range of topics in the history of art and architecture in European late Renaissance and seventeenth-century art in various media.

      Maura Reilly

      A photo of Maura Reilly on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
      Photo by Rochelle S. Paris
      Curator and arts writer who has organized dozens of exhibitions internationally with a focus on marginalized artists. She has written extensively on global contemporary art and curatorial practice, including, most recently Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. Her next book, The Ethical Museum, is forthcoming in 2022, followed by a textbook on Feminist Art. Reilly is the Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she launched the first exhibition and public programming space in the US devoted to feminist art. She is a founding member of The Feminist Art Project and Feminist Curators United. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail and Associate Professor of Art History & Museum Studies at ASU.

      The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

      Dao Strom

      A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
      Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

      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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