Curatorial

Ex-Embassy: Exhibition and Text Series Curatorial Advisor to Sonja Hornung. Cold War archival, architectural and diplomatic legacies connecting the GDR to the ‘5th continent’ of Australia, via the site of the Formerly Australian Embassy to the GDR, Berlin, 2019.

DAI #12 Contour Biennale 8 / Roaming Assembly – Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law. Co-curator with Natasha Ginwala. Public program address artistic and aesthetic contestations of the juridical beyond its present coding, productive dealings with a planetary regime of impermissible evidence, and ritualistic and counter-analytical engagements with toxicities and resistances, Mechelen as part of Contour Biennale #8, 2017.

DAI #10 Roaming Assembly – Infrastructural Rifts: Souls and Soils of Disaster Developmentalism. Co-curator with Farid Rakun, Ruangrupa. Psychomaterial economies of belief, labour, subsistence and investment surrounding large scale infrastructural developments of the present, 2017.

Poetics and Infrastructures of Political Form (Seminar) and ‘From Warehouse to Data Centre: Contours of Extraction, Finance and Logistics’ (Talk by Brett Neilson) co-curator with Marina Vishmidt as part of the DAI and MKMA Academies at the Jakarta Biennale, curated by Ruangrupa, 2015.

Some Profound Misunderstanding at the Heart of What Is, co-curator with Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster, 2014. Research exhibition of the Jan Van Eyck Academie’s ‘Moving Images of Speculation’ Inlab on film form, finance and the possibilities of counter-speculation, including Sven Lutticken, Thijs Witty, Marina Vishmidt, Antony Illes, Joseph Vogl, Vlidi Jeric and JVE artists.

The Leisure Class, co-curated with Kathryn Weir, Head of International Art and Cinema, for Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and Australian Cinematheque, 2008. Tracked early critiques of post-fordism, conspicuous leisure and waste in international and Australian film, video and net art works. Review by Danni Zuvela here.

Video Ground, Commissioned by MAAP, 2008. An international moving image program inspired by critiques of the coloniality of locative media art paradigms in art and criticism from the antipodes. Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Thailand), Chicago Film Studies Centre (USA), Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane. Curator’s notes Online Supplement.

 Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong, (Assistant Curator) Curated by Tedd Gott, National Gallery of Victoria, and Kathryn Weir, Head of International Art and Film, GoMA. Depictions of the gorilla after its discovery by Western naturalists in 1847, and debates about Darwinian theory and human-primate relations in art, film, literature, sculpture and popular culture from C19th to now.