About this Event
To celebrate the publication of two books edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero, and featuring contributions by various Delfina alumni, Inti and Cosmin will be in conversation with historian and writer Samia Khatun, and cultural critic and curator, Marian Pastor Roces. The books, Ten Thousand Suns, published to accompany the 24th Biennale of Sydney includes new and existing essays, poetry, literary pieces, and the first English translations of important historical texts, as well as documentation of the 116 artists participating in the Biennale; and What to Let Go?, focuses on questions of cultural sovereignty, with contributions by anthropologists, artists, authors, curators, historians, poets, and philosophers.
The conversation at Delfina will consider and begin to unravel the conceptual threads that link these two timely publications.
Cosmin Costinaş is co-Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Suns: the 24th Biennale of Sydney, and Senior Curator of Exhibition Practices at HKW, Berlin. He was the Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong (2011-2022)
Inti Guerrero is a Berlin-based Colombian curator and educator, he is the co-Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Suns: the 24th Biennale of Sydney, and PhD supervisor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He was the artistic director of TEOR/éTica, San Jose.
Samia Khatun is Senior Lecturer in History School of History, Religions and Philosophies SOAS, University of London. A feminist historian of race relations, her research focusses on the life worlds and experiences of colonised peoples across the British Empire. Her first monograph, Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia (2019), won the Scholarly Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Educational Publishing Awards Australia.
Marian Pastor Roces is an independent curator, cultural critic, and policy analyst working out of her base in Manila, Philippines. She founded and leads TAOINC, a corporation that curates the establishment of museums and develops exhibitions, parks, and publications. TAOINC recently accomplished the creation of the Cultural Center of the Philippines online museum, for which Roces supervised the creation of a new decolonizing Accession Record System (ARS). Her current project is a cross-cultural museum in an island province only now moving on from 50 long years of sectarian war.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Delfina Foundation, 29-31 Catherine Place, London, United Kingdom
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