This is a new collaborative and cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from South Asia to work with the British Council Collection’s moving image works. The programme is delivered in partnership by the British Council, LUX and Art South Asia Project (ASAP).
The selected visual arts curator from Sri Lanka is, Sandev Handy, who is a curator, artist and art educator based in Colombo. He serves as Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka, is one part of an artist collective called the Packet, and one part of an independent research studio, between Zurich, Makassar, Karachi and Colombo called the Studio for Memory Politics together with Vera Ryser, Angela Wittwer and Aziz Sohail. His research and practice cross nationhood and its de-colonial ruptures, Afro-Asian world-building and networks of solidarities, land politics, and botanical and bureaucratic naturalisms.
As part of the programme the selected participants will receive:
- Mentoring support from LUX and ASAP
- Professional development opportunities and networking
- Fully funded research trip to the UK in Autumn 2024
- Opportunity to work with moving image works in the British Council visual arts collection
- Logistical and financial support to stage a final exhibition
- Curatorial fee
Further links
https://www.artexchangemovingimage.uk/