Working Internationally: Where to Start (19 Feb)

Using the international curatorial platform, ‘Vessel’ as a case study and point of departure, this lecture will try to describe various dynamics that might strengthen the international profile of curators and artists. The lecture will offer a challenge to the definition of internationalism and will consider the relevance of local epistemologies and their circulation as part of that challenge. A variety of formats useful for international profiling will be covered and there will be a focus on the format of the residency model for becoming international.

Viviana Checchia

Viviana Checchia is a curator, programmer, and researcher active internationally, and currently Co-Director of ‘Vessel’, an international curatorial platform based in Puglia, South of Italy, for the support of social, cultural, and economic development through contemporary art. Viviana is also Director of Void Art Centre in Derry where she instigated a livingpractice of Social Permaculture.

Previous to these roles she was Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation, London, Senior Lecturer on the MFA at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Viviana has produced and contributed to a range of international projects, including the Young Artist of the Year Award, Ramallah and the 4^th Athens Biennale.

Viviana has lectured on curatorial studies and contemporary art practice at amongst others: the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, Limerick Institute of Technology; the International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah. With Anna Santomauro, she received the 2013 ICI/Dedalus Research Award for research into the legacy of  socially-engaged art practice in the U.S., and in 2016 was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory Laureate’s choice for her contributions to the comprehension of and international interest in Eastern European art. Viviana holds a PhD from Loughborough University that focused on alternative Mediterranean curatorial practices. She currently serves as a trustee of cultural organisation, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland.

Poster image credit: Lavori in Corso, visita a Brindisi 28 Aprile 2011, photo by Claudia Corsa.

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