[pack]- curatorial team mates/associates/partners
Curators:
Kaur Chimuk is considered a queer flexitarian by choice. In everyday life, Kaur would like to pronounce as they/zie. Zie’s majorly working as a curatorial researcher with a special interest in trans-disciplinary curatorial practice and well as a performance actionist. Currently working from India also have a working base in Sweden(meteor international) & UK(inventory platform). Zie has shared a special interest in non-binary viewership and the participatory curatorial model in the last couple of years.Zie has recentlys started a curatorial research platform in India, also known as - TAC or Tracing A City*, where you can find most of their collective working research and initiative. As an individual practitioner, zie likes to explore the body as a political space for the nonbinary action field and as well as a platform for fluid visual poetry. In recent times, zie got support from IASPIS( International exchange program between India & Sweden) where they got a chance to develop a participatory curatorial model during the Srinagar Biennale in collaboration with Tamara De Laval. In 2019, one of the research attributes got a chance to be exhibited In Malmo Art Hall, Sweden in 2019, associated with the international collective Metood(It was supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and the City of Malmö). Currently, zie’s one of the ongoing research projects about post-cinematic expression for non-binary viewership is in IDFA DocLab Forum, 2020.
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Suman Samajpati(Curatorial Outlook Design), is an artist and media practitioner with the TAXI Artist Collective. Suman studied Fashion and Textile Design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata, and received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Birla Institute of Liberal Arts in Kolkata. His works have been showcased both in art venues and film festivals throughout India & abroad.
Marziana Mahfuz Nandita(Curatorial Data Analyst), Development economist and policy expert with close to ten years of experience in ensuring equity and effectiveness of development programmes. Expertise includes programme management and evaluation, political economy analysis, programmes equity analysis focusing on different forms of vulnerabilities including gender-based discrimination and violence, climate, ethnicity, age and disabilities. Thrives in collaborative multicultural set-ups with a track record of success in results oriented, high-pressured environments. Have been providing thought leadership and technical advice across poverty, private sector development, climate change, education and health programmes design and implementation at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), former DFID Bangladesh since 2017. Currently responsible for ensuring the value for money of a portfolio of over £300 million including FCDO’s health sector programme (£88 million) with the government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Strategic Partnership II with BRAC (£223 million). Day to day work involves different thematic areas in international development and policy advocacy through stakeholder engagement at the national and international level.
Associate Partners
Sanah Rehman(Curatorial Outreach Partner),
OCI is the brainchild of art entrepreneur and curator Sanah Rehman. She has previously worked with St+Art India for Sassoon Dock Art Project, Ranjit Dahiya from Bollywood Art Project and was the core team member aiding in curation at Method Art Space at Mumbai.
Sanah Rehman(Curatorial Outreach Partner),
OCI is the brainchild of art entrepreneur and curator Sanah Rehman. She has previously worked with St+Art India for Sassoon Dock Art Project, Ranjit Dahiya from Bollywood Art Project and was the core team member aiding in curation at Method Art Space at Mumbai.
Rabbania Shirjeel(Space Partner),
Rabbania S. is a Lahore based practicing visual Artist and curator. She completed her master’s in Art and Design from Beaconhouse National University in 2020 working on subjects like idea of home, migration, Partition 1947, and collective memory. Being the only Pakistani to have an honors degree in Photography, the idea of limiting to a single medium or working with specific interests is unfamiliar to her. She constantly questions the possibilities around photography and the way it is seen in Pakistan. She also works as an oral historian collecting stories and compiling them for her Family archive project. With that Rabbania is highly fascinated by history and Language especially Urdu and has completed translations for a British council zine. Shirjeel founded Tasweerghar in 2015 and single handed managed to do successfully talks, exhibition , collaborative projects and introduced an Annual residency program. Rabbania is now one of the 9 participants from South Asia for a photo project “New waves of documentary” under Pathshala South Asian Media Institute
Madhavan. Pillai(Space Partner),
Madhavan. Pillai, an artist, curator, archivist gallerist, TEDtalk speaker, a researcher on 19th-century photography. He is the founder of Asia Photography Archive and Goa Center for Alternative photography. He is also the founder, curator of Gallery OneTwo - an abounded toilet in Ooty which is repurposed into art space.
Taiara Farhana(Space Partner),
Tareque is an artist, gallerist, and curator based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was part of the core team in many art festivals in Dhaka. Notable works being, Chobi Mela International Photography Festival IX and Dhaka Art Summit 2016, 2018, 2020. She is an artist, curator and gallerist. Her space Studio 6/6, is located in Mohammadpur. The space hosts a wide variety of activities including workshops, exhibitions, and music shows. She curated a series show recently which is based on the Bengali numerals, EK in 2019 and DUI - Synchronized Encounters in 2021. In 2020 she worked with Nabil Rahman and curated two of his solo shows, one of which was based in The Weekend House designed by Marina Tabassum. Her journey as a curator started with the solo show of Najib Tareque called ART MAKES US HUMAN hosted by Studio 6/6 in 2016. Taiara’s works have been exhibited in various group exhibitions since 2017. Her recent exhibitions include Uronto Art Residency at Rajbari, Naogaon, Ghartera at Dwip Gallery, Laal at Jatra and EK and DUI - at Studio 6/6 and Dwip. Drawn to natural mediums during isolation of the pandemic, she explored the freedom that watercolor provides. A faction of that series was shown in Longitude Latitude 8 (an online exhibition).
Beathur Mgoza Baker(Space Partner),
Beathur Mgoza Baker is an independent African contemporary art curator, writer, filmmaker, lecturer and cultural producer fully invested in the representation and growth of Africa, her artists and movements globally. I am the director and founder of MADLOZI ART, and XPERIMENTA.