Alongside my academic research, I continue my curatorial practice, and both of these practices have informed each other. I have worked as an independent curator on several ethnographic and contemporary art exhibitions.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Tracing Failing Archaeologies: Aesthetic Interrogations of Blemished Histories through a Poetic Chasing of Stray Winds Wafting East and Back Home (in progress)
Digital exhibition featuring works of Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Afro-Iranian Lives (April 2018)
Consultant for the photo and digital exhibition on African slaves in Iran
Buehler Alumni Center, University of California, Davis
Critical Juncture, A Collateral Exhibition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Dec 2014-Mar 2015) Curated an Indo-Polish public art project with Magdalena Fabianczyk with funding from the Polish Culture and Heritage Ministry
Mansur Art Galley,7/644, Jew Town, Kochi. India
Colonial Spaces: Afro-Indian Connections and Comparisons (Jan-Mar 2014)
Galleria of Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA
“Seeing Red 111” Ghanian Artist Bernard Akoi-Jackson’s Performance (Jan 2013)
Public performance
I Shantiroad Gallery, Bangalore
Interstices, A Collateral Exhibition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Dec 2012-Jan 2013)
Curated a collateral event of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Hallegua Hall, Kochi, India
Rotating Display Intersections, Fowler Museum at UCLA (Jan 2010-Mar 2010)
Curatorial Assistant to Roy Hamilton, Fowler Museum
FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES
Constructing Guligan (work in progress)
In collaboration with Samuel Mark Anderson on ethnographic film and installation videos to accompany an exhibition on South Indian Theyyam ritual performance planned for the Fowler Museum, UCLA
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