Happening: Reflections from the Curatorium connects directly to our pre-Biennale Instagram live seriesIn Process: Notes from the Curatorium. This talk series addresses the intricacies of curating collectively through highlighting the rich benefits, challenges and lessons learnt that will continue to inform practice.

Each conversation aims to unpack how rīvus was conceived and the inner workings of what it means to create exhibitions that matter today. 

About the Curatorium

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José Roca’s work is heavily influenced by the relationship between art and nature and the 23rd Biennale of Sydney will have a strong focus on sustainability and collaboration. The concept for the rīvus was developed and realised by a team of curators – the Curatorium – who represent the Biennale of Sydney’s core exhibition partners including: 

  • José Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney 
  • Paschal Daantos Berry, Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales 
  • Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 
  • Hannah Donnelly, Producer, First Nations Programs, Information + Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) 
  • Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace 

Dates & Times

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Saturday, 9 April 2022
2–3.30 pm
Paschal Daantos Berry and Hannah Donnelly

Saturday, 14 May 2022
2–3 pm
Anna Davis and Talia Linz

Saturday, 11 June 2022
2–3 pm
José Roca

Venue
The Waterhouse at The Cutaway, Barangaroo (Level 1)

Cost
Free, bookings are essential

Access
The Biennale of Sydney strives to make all events accessible. You can advise us of your access requirements when booking online, by email or calling our box office on 02 8484 8702.

 

José Roca – Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney

José Roca is a curator and Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá, and curator of the LARA collection, Singapore. He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London (2012-2015) and managed the arts program at the Banco de la República (MAMU) in Bogotá. José was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010. He served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007) and is the author of Transpolitical: art in Colombia 1992-2012 (with Sylvia Suárez), and Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers (with Alejandro Martín). 

Paschal Daantos Berry

Paschal Daantos Berry is the Head of Learning and Participation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (commencing 21 September 2020). He is a performance maker, curator, writer and dramaturg whose practice is focused on interdisciplinary, cross cultural, collaborative and socially engaged processes. He is a creator of award-winning performance works, an artist mentor, and has worked for Urban Theatre Projects, Radio National, Griffin Theatre, Performance Space, Blacktown Arts, Canberra Youth Theatre and the Biennale of Sydney. 

Anna Davis

Anna Davis is a Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She was recently co-curator of The National: New Australian Art (2019) and in 2015, curated the award-winning survey exhibition Energies: Haines & Hinterding which toured Christchurch Art Gallery: Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has curated many solo and group exhibitions at the MCA that include: Sun Xun (2018), Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy (2017) New Romance: Art and the Posthuman (2015/16), Workout: 7 days of experimental performance (2013) and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro (2012). Anna has a Ph.D. in Media Arts from the University of NSW and publishes widely on contemporary art with a focus on experimental practice.

Hannah Donnelly

Hannah Donnelly is Producer, First Nations Programs at Information + Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.), Parramatta. Hannah is an award-winning Wiradjuri writer and producer interested in Indigenous futures, speculative fiction and responses to climate trauma. Most recently she was Head Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks. She worked as a producer on Next Wave Festival 2018 and Laukatim Solwara AsiaTOPA 2017, and was also a lead artist in Refuge, an Emergency Relief Centre simulation produced and directed by Arts House and City of Melbourne. I.C.E., a partner for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, is a community-based contemporary arts organisation situated on the lands of the Burramattagal people and clans of the Darug Nation and a territory linked to the historical and political significance of waterways in Australia.

Talia Linz

Talia Linz is Curator at Artspace, Sydney, collaborating on solo and group exhibitions, new commissions, publications and multi-platform projects with contemporary artists across generations. She has worked throughout the arts in performance, radio and publishing, including as the Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow at the Biennale of Sydney and assistant editor at Art & Australia. Her writing has been published in monographs, journals and exhibition catalogues for the National Gallery of Australia, MCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Hatje Cantz, and the European Capital of Culture, among others.