In Conversation with Tumelo Mosaka
How can we understand curating as a spatial practice? In this Curator’s Perspective talk, Paula Nascimento—an architect, independent curator, and 2022 ICI Curatorial Research Fellow, currently based in Luanda, Angola—discusses her approach to curating as a geopolitical exercise. Her discussion will begin with her curation of the groundbreaking Angolan Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale (which won the Golden Lion and was widely recognized for its nuanced reckoning with the complexities of urban environments), before addressing projects that span her career to explore how notions of space and territory inform her work. Nascimento will also highlight several ongoing artists’ projects that illustrate the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of her practice, which has been deeply shaped by artists’ perspectives on migration, conflict, and international relations.
Following the talk, Nascimento will be joined by curator Tumelo Mosaka to continue the conversation. Mosaka is a Johannesburg-born and New York City-based independent curator, and is also the Mellon Project Director in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Mosaka’s interests span numerous global transnational artistic practices working within and outside museums with artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
This program is free and open to the public. Live ASL interpretation is available at this event. Please indicate in your RSVP if you require ASL interpretation.
