Members’ Pecha Kucha II
Dear CFC Members,
We are thrilled to invite you to our second Members’ Pecha Kucha, which will take place on Thursday, November 11 at 6.30pm Berlin time.
Four members, chosen through an open call, will discuss current and recent curatorial projects in the form of Pecha Kucha presentations:
Sarah Ayers – There’s No Place Like Home… Adventures in Experimental Art at the End of the Dirt Road
Natasha Boas – Swap Meet: Brad Kahlhamer and the Desert Mesa Gardens
Nona Markarian – Transient experiences
Sumitra Sunder – A Glimpse into Curatorial Practice in South India
This is a great opportunity to learn about other members’ projects and gather for a shared conversation. We hope you will join us!
Call for Curators Members’ Program:
Members’ Pecha Kucha
Thursday, November 11
6.30pm Berlin time
Natasha Boas Ph.D is a French-American international independent curator, writer and scholar based between Paris, New York and San Francisco. Dr. Boas has worked for major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, SFMoMA and the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archives. Her approach to curating is as a problem-solving activity, a way to work through historical art challenges posed by certain art and artists, and has resulted in her broadening of the narrative of Western Art history. Most recently, Dr. Boas’ foundational work on the forgotten Algerian painter, Baya Mahieddine, has been received to wide international acclaim, and her exhibition “Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira” has delved into issues of transnationality and social justice.
@natashaboas
Nona Markarian is an emerging curator and cultural practitioner based in Tbilisi, Georgia. After graduating in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (University of Bologna, Italy, 2020), she has collaborated with several festivals and organizations in Georgia and Germany. Her practice mainly involves visual and sound art. Markarian works as a curator of educational programs at Contemporary Art Space Batumi, and as a manager of a private collection of contemporary Chinese art. She founded Misamarti Festival (2018), which represents multidisciplinary artistic intervention into an urban space.
Sarah Ayers was born in Dowagiac, Michigan. After attending Andrews University, she moved to New York City. In New York City, Ayers worked as Curatorial Fellow at Bard Graduate Center, and Gallery Director at Zabriskie Gallery. Upon returning to Michigan, she was employed in the Public Programming Department of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Ayers has been working as an independent curator since 2013. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The New Yorker and the New York Times. Ayers has received additional certification in Strategic Corporate Research from Cornell University, Labor Studies from CUNY, Murphy Institute, and Collections Management in Costume and Textiles from California State University, Long Beach.
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Sumitra Sunder is a curator based in Bangalore, India. She is a queer woman and has been involved in the organization and implementation of a number of initiatives in Bangalore, India. Between 2012 and 2015, Sunder was closely involved with the annual Namma Pride festivities in the city, and in 2017, worked closely with the filmmaker T Jayashree to set up the beginnings of QAMRA – a Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection and Activism. She has a BFA in Art History (2007) and an MA in Museology (2010). Sunder has also spent seven years pursuing a doctoral degree in Art History, beginning in 2012. A recipient of multiple awards from the Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Curatorial Intensive South Asia for curatorial work, as well as a five-year fellowship to pursue doctoral research in Contemporary Art Curating, her interests are in archival work and follow a rather unorthodox path.
