The On the Curatorial series explores the debate around “the curatorial” that arose in the mid-2000s by inviting some of the participants in that debate — Mick Wilson, Paul O’Neill, and Beatrice von Bismarck — to reflect on how this concept has evolved.
The Lexicon is a editorial section in The Curatorial Journal edited by Carolina Rito. It stages the dialogue between key concepts in the field of curating with monthly contributions from curators, artists, organizers, activists, academics, and critical thinkers.
Published in The Curatorial Journal, this essay examines curatorial research as a critical epistemological practice intersecting artistic research, curatorial methodology, and critical theory.
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),…
Carolina Rito in From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition, Jasper Delbecke (ed.), 2023
Carolina Rito and Paul Goodwin, AHRC-funded project, 2021-2023
TRANSART Open Window EVENTS 28 January 2023
Essay by Carolina Rito in Exhibitionary Acts of Political Imagination edited by Mick Wilson and Cătălin Gheorghe (PARSE and Verso 2021)
“Not Propaganda”, in: Ole Lützow-Holm and Jessica Hemmings (eds.), “Violence: Materiality”, PARSE, issue 15, Autumn 2022.
Guest speaker, Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network, at Heritage Studies Section and Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
Keynote Lecture, FEINART Summer School, Zeppelin University.
DATA browser, Open Humanities Press, 2021 (co-Editor and Author)
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.
Carolina Rito and Anthony Downey organised a day event with keynote speakers Michael Schwab (Journal for Artistic Research) and Emily Pringle (Tate).
Carolina Rito Inaugural Lecture Tuesday 18 May 2020, 6pm Coventry University
This is a new strand of the Crititcal Practices Talks exploring the presence of the Black Arts Movement in Coventry, UK.
ICA London hosted an in-conversation with Abhijan Toto, Pujita Guha, farid rakun, Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas about the publication Institution as Praxis.
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…
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.
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.
Correspondence with Carolina Rito, Laurence Rassel, Felicity Allen, and Françoise Vergès. Curated by Yana Klichuk, Alina Belishkina and Joana Monbaron.
Carolina Rito. ‘Critical Pedagogies: The Learning Collective in the Awakening of the COVID-19 Pandemic’. The Contemporary Journal 2 (August 2020).
Talk with Carolina Rito and Antonia Alampi (co-director of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin). Moderated by Ane Rodriguez Armendariz. At La Casa Encendida.
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)
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)
Sternberg Press, 2020 (Editor and Author)
Professor of Creative Practice Research at CAMC, Coventry University
e-flux Architecture, 2020 (Co-editor)
2019–20 Nottingham Contemporary (Responsible for the concept, design, and programme)
Midlands Higher Education Cultural Forum, 2019 (Author)
2018–2020 Nottingham Contemporary (Founder and Executive Editor)
2019–20 The Contemporary Journal (Editor and Author)
2018–2019 The Contemporary Journal (Editor)
Mousse, 2017 (Author)