Critical Curating: Practices, Research and Infrastructures
Carolina Rito curates public programme with European Artistic Research Network and Coventry Biennial, 10th November 2023, at The Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Guest speakers: Bige Örer (Istanbul Biennial & İKSVi), Cătălin Gheorghe (George Enescu National University of the Arts, Iași), Henk Slager (HKU Utrecht),…
The essayistic in the curatorial – Repurposing the politics of exhibition
Carolina Rito in From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition, Jasper Delbecke (ed.), 2023
The Changing Same? British Black Artists and Visual Arts Organisations in the Midlands
Carolina Rito and Paul Goodwin, AHRC-funded project, 2021-2023
The Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary/Curatorial Talk
TRANSART Open Window EVENTS 28 January 2023
Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary
Essay by Carolina Rito in Exhibitionary Acts of Political Imagination edited by Mick Wilson and Cătălin Gheorghe (PARSE and Verso 2021)
“Not Propaganda” A Curatorial Staging on the Aesthetic-Political Continuities Between the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa and the Portuguese Revolution
“Not Propaganda”, in: Ole Lützow-Holm and Jessica Hemmings (eds.), “Violence: Materiality”, PARSE, issue 15, Autumn 2022.
Radical Surface: Curatorial Methodologies and Epistemic Praxis
Guest speaker, Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network, at Heritage Studies Section and Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
The Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary: Re-Imagining the epistemic and aesthetic functions of art spaces
Keynote Lecture, FEINART Summer School, Zeppelin University.
FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the post-truth era
DATA browser, Open Humanities Press, 2021 (co-Editor and Author)
Critical Practices Talks
Critical Practices Talks is a series of monthly conversations curated by Carolina Rito with researchers and practitioners in the fields of art, curating, critical theory and museum studies. These conversations explore the capabilities of practice to produce knowledge, advance critical inquiries and intervene in society.
Practice Research Symposium
Carolina Rito and Anthony Downey organised a day event with keynote speakers Michael Schwab (Journal for Artistic Research) and Emily Pringle (Tate).
A Case for the Curatorial. The Practice of Knowledge Production in the Arts
Carolina Rito Inaugural Lecture Tuesday 18 May 2020, 6pm Coventry University
Black Arts Movement in Coventry talks series
This is a new strand of the Crititcal Practices Talks exploring the presence of the Black Arts Movement in Coventry, UK.
Institution as Praxis – In Conversation at ICA
ICA London hosted an in-conversation with Abhijan Toto, Pujita Guha, farid rakun, Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas about the publication Institution as Praxis.
Life Futures
Carolina Rito is a researcher in the Life Futures project with Daniele Lorenzini (Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick), Federico Testa (Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick). Partners: Warwick University, Coventry City of Culture 2021, Coventry University, and Herbert Museum…
Black Arts Movement in Coventry
This project explores the legacy of the British Black Art Movement (BAM) in the 1980s in Coventry. Coventry University and City of Culture project with MAOKWO and the Herbert Gallery and Museum.
Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary
Talk at the EARN Conference “The Postresearch Condition” (26-30 January) workshop under the heading “expo-facto: into the algorithm of exhibition?”. Led by Mick Wilson.
Curatorial Forum Symposium*
Correspondence with Carolina Rito, Laurence Rassel, Felicity Allen, and Françoise Vergès. Curated by Yana Klichuk, Alina Belishkina and Joana Monbaron.
Critical Pedagogies: The Learning Collective in the Awakening of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Carolina Rito. ‘Critical Pedagogies: The Learning Collective in the Awakening of the COVID-19 Pandemic’. The Contemporary Journal 2 (August 2020).
The Art Institution as a Space for Critical Thinking
Talk with Carolina Rito and Antonia Alampi (co-director of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin). Moderated by Ane Rodriguez Armendariz. At La Casa Encendida.
What Is the Curatorial Doing? (PDF)
Carolina Rito, “What Is the Curatorial Doing?”, in Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas eds., Institution as Praxis — New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020) (Author)
Introduction to Institution as Praxis (PDF)
Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas, “Introduction”, in Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas eds., Institution as Praxis — New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020) (Co-author)
Institution as Praxis—New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research
Sternberg Press, 2020 (Editor and Author)
Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities
Professor of Creative Practice Research at CAMC, Coventry University
Architectures of Education
e-flux Architecture, 2020 (Co-editor)
CAMPUS Independent Study Programme
2019–20 Nottingham Contemporary (Responsible for the concept, design, and programme)
Advocacy Document on Collaborative Research
Midlands Higher Education Cultural Forum, 2019 (Author)
The Contemporary Journal
2018–2020 Nottingham Contemporary (Founder and Executive Editor)
Critical Pedagogies
2019–20 The Contemporary Journal (Editor and Author)
On Translations
2018–2019 The Contemporary Journal (Editor)
The Testimonial Subject: Rana Hamadeh
Mousse, 2017 (Author)