MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Dr. Christine Eyene, an art historian, critic and curator. Eyene is Research Curator at Tate Liverpool and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University. Her curatorial practice encompasses contemporary arts with a particular interest in African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography and sound art. Since 2021, she has been developing independent research on the theme of botanical histories and colonial legacies, connecting ancestral and collective knowledge in an evergreen forest bordering the rural town of Lolodorf, in the south province of Cameroon, where she is currently building an art residence. Eyene is curator of Landskrona Foto Festival 2024’s Konsthall exhibition. Recent exhibitions include: “Seeds and Souls,” Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023-24); “Calling in Question,” American Arts Center, Casablanca (2022); “Breaking the Mould - New Signatures from DRC,” 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London (2021); “RESIST! The 1960s, Photography, and Visual Legacies,” Summer of Photography, Bozar, Brussels (2018). Her writings are published in art books, exhibition catalogues and art journals.
Drawing from two of her feminist exhibitions, “Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender” (Bozar, Brussels, 2014) and “Sounds Like Her” (New Art Exchange, Nottingham, and touring, 2017-2020), Eyene will discuss her feminist curatorial practice from a Black perspective, and how this has enabled her to address questions of marginalization, the politics of space within art institutions, and ways to complexify feminist artistic discourses beyond visual representation through the immateriality of sound art.
The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.