CURATORIAL PRACTICES at the INTERSECTION of COMMUNITY BUILDING, LEARNING PROCESSES, and POLITICS of EVERYDAY LIFE @tranzit.sk

Alessandra Pomarico

June 21, 2023, 6 pm, tranzit.sk

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Curators Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu (South Africa) and Alessandra Pomarico (Italy/US) will share reflections and approaches, as a way of testing what it means to engage in decolonial methodologies and participatory practices, fostering relational processes among curators, artists, organizers, cultural practitioners, institutions and communities of struggle. Which modes of translation, transition, and transmission allow for deep translocal collaborations, mobility justice, reciprocity and solidarity? How do we include feminism, intersectionality, motherhood and our everyday life in curatorial work? Through resonances and across differences - with a desire to learn from each other - the two curators will explore the materiality of their experiences and contexts, and what it means to be working in and with their locations, histories, geographies, and their different Southern perspectives.

UKHONA NTSALI MLANDU is the Founder and Head Curator of makwande.republic, a residency in rural Eastern Cape (South Africa). She is also the Director of Greatmore Studio, an artist-led community of practice which has been operational for over 32 years. She is also a performance artist with special interest in spatial justice, public art and heritage and memory and has worked on the African continent and internationally in various capacities engaging with these themes.

Alessandra Pomarico (PhD, Italy/ US) is an independent curator, writer, and educator working at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, social issues, and nano-politics. Member of the global Ecoversities Alliance, dedicated to reimagining higher education, she is the co-founder of Free Home University, an artistic and pedagogical experiment focused on generating new ways of sharing and creating knowledge by experiencing life in common