Recording of Viviana’s presentation which focuses on her unique perspective on ‘the ecological turn’, a move towards a more ecologically connected art institution, one that can expand towards multispecies understanding.
Viviana Checchia is currently Director of Void Art Centre in Derry, where she instigated a living practice of Social Permaculture. Viviana is also Co-Director of ‘Vessel’, an international curatorial platform based in Puglia, South of Italy, for the support of social, cultural, and economic development through contemporary art. Previously, she was Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation, London, Senior Lecturer on the MFA at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and Public Engagement Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
Viviana has produced and contributed to a range of international projects, including the Young Artist of the Year Award, Ramallah and the 4th Athens Biennale. Viviana has lectured on curatorial studies and contemporary art practice at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, Limerick Institute of Technology; the International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah.
With Anna Santomauro, she received the 2013 ICI/Dedalus Research Award for research into the legacy of socially-engaged art practice in the U.S., and in 2016 was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory Laureate’s choice for her contributions to the comprehension of and international interest in Eastern European art.
Viviana holds a PhD from Loughborough University, which focused on alternative Mediterranean curatorial practices. She currently serves as a trustee of the cultural organisation, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland.
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