0:24 Intro by Charles Stankievech
6:34 Dr. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
23:08 Wanda Nanibush
44:38 Moderated Discussion
On October 6, 2014, Dr. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Wanda Nanibush joined Charles Stankievech in a panel to discuss their work as part of the Master of Visual Studies Proseminar Series.
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Wanda Nanibush presented their recent curatorial projects on indigenous art and colony, including the just published Art in the Time of Colony by Carroll and recently curated retrospective of Rebecca Belmore by Nanibush. The presentations lead into a moderated discussion on how both curators are also artists and particularly how their own artistic practices inform their curatorial methodology. The discussion takes place within the context of the Critical Curatorial Lab at the University of Toronto, which this year looked at the nexus of artists who curate and curators who make art. The talk is part of a collection of artists/curators who participated in the course also including: Candice Hopkins, Luis Jacob, Anna-Sophie Springer, Micah Lexier, and Kathleen Ritter.
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, community animator/organizer, and arts consultant from Beausoleil First Nation. Recently, Nanibush was Curator in Residence at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery where her exhibition KWE: The work of Rebecca Belmore was up from May 15 to August 9, 2014. She was the 2013 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor at University of Toronto. Wanda Nanibush is currently working with the Art Gallery Ontario, curating independently, doing a PhD, and teaching graduate courses. She has published in many places including the books Women in a Globalizing World: Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace and This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years since the Blockades and co-edited York University’s InTensions journal on The Resurgence of Indigenous Women’s Knowledge and Resistance in Relation to Land and Territoriality, as well as catalogue essays on Jeff Thomas, Adrian Stimson, Rebecca Belmore and more.
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is an Austrian-Australian artist (Melbourne, 1980) based in London and currently in Berlin in art history at the Humboldt University. She is the author of Art in the Time of Colony, a museum in a book, of Aboriginal Australian Art. She is currently working on a second monograph about repatriation and human-object relationships. Her performances, films and installations have been shown in the 52nd Venice Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Art London, the 4th Marrakech Biennale, Extracity Kunsthaal, and the National Museum of Australia. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and has curated various exhibitions including Botanical Drift, Kranich Museum, and Vienna Zocolo. Her publications include Object to Project: Artist’s Interventions in Museums; Small Mirrors to Large Empires: Towards a Theory of Meta-museums in Contemporary Art, and Curating Curiosity: Wonder’s Colonial Phenomenology.
Charles Stankievech is an Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in which he organises the Critical Curatorial Lab course.
For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at www.daniels.utoronto.ca.
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