... as curator

Curating is a more recent addition to my portfolio of roles—another way of creating spaces and relationships as containers for transformation. I see it as an extension of my research into systems ideas, artistic experimentation, and intellectual exchange, bringing together ideas, people, and places in generative ways.

In France, I have set up a fledgling space for artistic inquiry in the house where my parents lived for a decade. SER is rooted in the intellectual legacy of Michel Serres, the visionary French philosopher and systems thinker who passed away in 2019. It offers a space for short- and long-term residencies, welcoming artists and creative thinkers seeking to deepen the relationship between their work and Serres' ideas.

Another example of my curatorial practice is the Black Triangle Festival, which will take place on the former mining site at the heart of my doctoral research. The festival will serve as a convergence point for different strands of my action research on the undeveloped slag heap, creating space for dialogue between researchers, artists, and practitioners engaged with the site.

An online curatorial venture is the Alive in the Anthropocene series of talks on themes that shape our age of transition. 

I see these initiatives as a starting point and hope to expand these new spaces for artistic and intellectual inquiry in the years to come.