CATEGORY
Curator Talk: Viviana Checchia, Director, Void Art Centre
1 September, 2023
Viviana Checcia. Image by Candice Earle-Hutton Photography, 2023
Fire Station Artist’s Studio curatorial talk with Viviana Checchia Wednesday September 13th at 5pm.
Viviana joins us to introduce her curatorial practice and research with a presentation sharing insights into the inquiry around the value of art research, its outcomes and infrastructures. This is an ongoing inquiry titled ‘Research Agency’ that Checchia started in 2020. As well as being an introduction to her research, it could be an early opportunity to connect with interesting art practitioners and thinkers in town. So please join us for some ‘research exchange’!
The event is free and takes place in the Project Space at FSAS, Dublin 1.
Viviana Checchia is a curator, programmer, and researcher active internationally. Viviana is Director of Void Art Centre in Derry, and 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.
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 4th 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.
Image credit: Candice Earle-Hutton Photography, 2023
