Ana Frangovska, the curator of 'The Touch' and Tendai John Mutambu, the curator of the programme 'We Are Here: Future Ecologies' will discuss together their experiences curating moving image artworks and the themes explored within the artworks in the exhibition, such as migration, colonisation, gender, ecology and the medical industry.
Duration: 1 hour
Biography of the participant: Tendai Mutambu is a New Zealand-based writer, editor, and curator, presently working as Acting Curator at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary, Assistant Producer on Aura Satz’s first feature ‘Preemptive Listening’ and Commissioning Editor for Art Now Essays. Tendai was until recently Assistant Curator of Commissions and Public Programmes at Spike Island, Bristol where he contributed to projects on Pacita Abad, Peggy Ahwesh, Eric Baudelaire/Alvin Curran, Adam Khalil/Bailey Sweitzer, Zinzi Minott, Imran Perretta, and Laura Phillips. Other recent work includes: ‘The Conch’ at South London Gallery; ‘We Are Here: Work from the LUX and British Council Collections’ (2019-22); ‘Artist in Profile: Marwa Arsanios’ at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (2019); ‘Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish’ at Govett-Brewster/Len Lye Centre (2018). Tendai has written for Frieze, Art Monthly UK, LUX Moving Image, Ocula Magazine, and Runway Journal of Contemporary Art, and Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey’ (2019) published as part of the BMW Art Prize at Art Basel. His forthcoming essays will appear in exhibition catalogues for Peggy Ahwesh’s first UK solo (Spike Island, 2021), and Ufuoma Essi’s first major solo exhibition (South London Gallery, 2021).
Moderator: Ana Frangovska
A creative and dynamic arts professional with twenty years of curatorial, educational and research experience in contemporary Visual Arts. She has worked as a senior curator at the Macedonian National Gallery for the past fifteen years. Frangovska is a PhD candidate of Transdisciplinary studies in Contemporary Arts and Media at the Faculty of Arts and Media in Belgrade.