POSTPONED: CSCA Curatorial Thinking: Tamar Garb and Renée Mussai in conversation
Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the Curatorial Conversation with Tamar Garb and Rene Mussai on Tuesday 24th October. The event will be rearranged for a later date.
POSTPONED: CSCA Curatorial Thinking: Tamar Garb and Renée Mussai in conversation
24 Oct 2023, 18:00 – 20:00
Professor Tamar Garb and Renée Mussai will be in conversation to discuss different methodologies and strategies that inform their respective research-led curatorial practices, with a focus on recent projects such as Garb’s current exhibition with The Walther Collection ‘Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt’ and Mussai’s group show ‘I See the Face of Things to Come’ presented at the 14th edition of PhotoIreland, amongst others. Their conversation will reflect on the praxis of curating as a process-oriented, imaginative activity that considers critical questions of our times, and produces new knowledge; alongside matters of collaboration, mediation, experimentation and the site-specific dynamics of the gallery space as crucial elements of exhibition-making and as potent sites of enquiry, as well as contemplative spaces for reflection and investigation.
Image: Mónica de Miranda, Whistle for the Wind, from the series The Island, 2022. Commissioned by Autograph. Courtesy of the artist. Part of the exhibition ‘I See the Face of Things to Come’ curated by Renée Mussai for PhotoIreland, and presented at The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 2023.
Renée Mussai is a London-based curator, writer and scholar with a special interest in African and Afro-diasporic lens-based Black feminist and queer visual arts practices. She is currently Artistic Director for The Walther Collection. As Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial & Collection at Autograph, London for more than two decades, Mussai has organized many critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions internationally and was responsible for numerous artist commissions, publications, and research initiatives. Between 2009 – 2020, she served as regular guest curator and non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and as co-curator for ‘R/evolutions,’ the 14th edition of PhotoIreland in 2023. Mussai is a trustee for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Centre for British Photography, as well as research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at University of Johannesburg and associate lecturer at University of the Arts London. Her publications include the award-winning monograph ‘Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night’ (Autograph, 2020); and the co-edited 'Care, Contagion, Community—Self & Other' (Autograph, 2021) and a special volume of Critical Arts journal entitled 'Ecologies of Care: Speculative Photographies, Curatorial Re-Positionings' (Routledge, 2020). Her next book, ‘Eyes That Commit’, will be published by Prestel in 2024.
Tamar Garb is Durning Professor in the History of Art at UCL. She has published widely on questions of gender and sexuality in Modern and Contemporary Art as well as on photography from Africa, the work of women artists and feminist aesthetics. Her curatorial practice includes ‘Gauguin: Maker of Myth’, Tate 2011, ‘Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography’, V&A, 2011, ‘Distance & Desire: Encounters with the African Archive’, Walther Coll. 2014, ‘Conversations in Letters & Lines: William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland, Fruitmarket,,2016, ‘Made Routes: Berni Searle and Vivienne Koorland’, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 2019 and ‘Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt’, Walther Coll. 2023.