I am excited to share this incredible festival I have been assisting the curation of alongside Giulia Gregnanin and @joannecoates.bsky.social. We have a brilliant programme lined up with artists, researchers and performers sharing their knowledge about the many facets of gendered labour.
Reading of the day is from my absolute idol Eleonora Belfiore, critically analysing "bullshit" in cultural policy. I aspire to be as badass as her one day
Attended the opening of @rnmmsnnzn.bsky.social new show at AutoItalia. In 2 rooms they have packed so much! Sound practices and curation at their finest beautifully expressing themes of waiting, action & inaction of protest, through speculative futurities.
Exciting times: my #PhD research about "The Social Impact of Co-Curation and Participatory Practices in Large Museums" is live on Imperial War Museum website.
Check it out: www.iwm.org.uk/sofia-cotrona
Let's #connect if you research participatory practices & curation for #socialjustice!
Woke up to the most wonderful surprise by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social after my time as part of their #YouthPanel. Thank you so much, I will treasure this gift & all the work done together!
Is it though a scandal? Or just the cultural sector doing its thing and continuing to systemically supports the exclusion of folks that don't come from money?
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social 'Culture is bad for you' shaped me as a policy researcher & cultural practitioner when I first studied it at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Excited to get my hands on this second edition and see what has or hasn't changed!
My #readingoftheday "Cultutes of the Curatorial - Hospitality." Been loving its critical framing of #curation as practice of care & power, hosting and giving.
It adds to my theoretical framework to think about #co-curation in large #museums answering to questions of exhibition performativity.
#PhD
Hello everyone so excited to connect! I am a socially engaged curator & feminist art writer. I just left Edinburgh for London to start a PhD on the social impact of co-curation in large museums at IWM & UCA via AHRC.
Here's me & the Berlin Wall at IWM celebrating the start of this journey!