TALKS
The role of co-creation and research-based projects in transforming curatorial practices and formats (2025)
An online conversation with Lou Mo (The School of Mutants), organised by Zimbabwean curator Laura Fungai Ganda, founder of Creative Lounge in Harare, as part of the series Curating Circle for Research and Public Programs.
Gorbals Public Art (2024)
In this podcast, I am in conversation with Matt Baker, lead artist of the public art programme accompanying the regeneration of Crown Street in the Gorbals during the 2000s. We reflect on the role of public art within communities and revisit Matt's commissioned projects, their contexts, and their ongoing resonances.
The conversation follows a related blog post on Kenny Hunter’s sculpture Untitled. Girl With Rucksack, created for the Crown Street project.
Produced for Southside Chronicles, a podcast series by the South Glasgow Heritage and Environment Trust (SGHET).
How It Started vs How It’s Going (2024)
A talk by artist Oliver Laric, programmed within the exhibition Tomorrow Never Dies. Laocoön’s Hyperrealities. The artist traces the development of his practice, from early video animations to his ongoing work with 3D scans of classical sculpture, which he has made openly available since 2012 via platforms such as threedscans.com and lincoln3dscans.co.uk.
Flâneurs - Book launch: screenings and conversations (2023)
Alliance française Glasgow, June 2023.
Facilitated by Jenny Brownrigg (Exhibitions Director, Glasgow School of Art), this event traced the development of the publication following research conducted within the CNAP collection. I was in conversation with CNAP curator Juliette Pollet and artist-researcher Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc. The programme also included screenings of extracts from Malraux’s Shoes (Dennis Adams, 2012) and Reportage amateur (Maquette expo) (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, 2006).
Les Flâneuses - Book launch: screenings and conversations (2022)
Le Bal, Paris, April 2022. he event explored key questions around the status of artwork reproductions: can they be considered objects endowed with specific cultural value, and in what ways might they be read alongside original works? These questions were discussed in conversation with artists Béatrice Balcou, Pierre Leguillon, and Aurélien Mole. The programme also included screenings of extracts from Malraux’s Shoes (Dennis Adams, 2012) and Reportage amateur (Maquette expo) (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, 2006).
SIX YEARS / What do curators care for? (2022)
Art-o-rama, Marseille, August 2022
What do curators care for? is a programme of events and an exhibition co-curated with Karin Schlageter and Arlène Berceliot-Courtin for C-E-A | French Association of Curators’ online curatorial platform SIX YEARS. The project explores curatorial research and practice through the lens of Lucy Lippard’s writings on the dematerialisation of the artwork. Presented as a booth at the Art-o-rama fair, SIX YEARS brought together documentary materials addressing intersections between care, curating, and technology. The programme included a talk by Arlène Berceliot-Courtin and Francesca Zappia, which outlined the origins of the platform and its ongoing research focus within What do curators care for?.
Objects on an Enlightening Mission. The casts of French abolitionist Victor Schoelcher (2021)
Part of the virtual forum ‘Unsettled Objects: post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile, and home’, organised by the Unesco Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, September 2021.
This presentation examines the role of plaster casts in disseminating Enlightenment values across France’s colonies during the nineteenth century. It focuses on casts commissioned by abolitionist Victor Schoelcher (1804–1893) for the Musée Schoelcher in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, considering how such objects functioned as pedagogical tools aimed at introducing the Western art canon to local populations.
Weaving the spaces we still call home. Textiles, location, gender (and beyond) (2013)
Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna. With curator and researcher Giulia Lamoni. Part of the programme Substantial Change? A Gender-Critical Look at Material and Medium (2013–14).
Framed as an imaginary exhibition, this lecture explored intersections between textile practices and the symbolic and material constructions of “home” and belonging. It considered how these themes are articulated in the work of contemporary artists across different geographical and cultural contexts.