​While living and studying in Rome, I was an Event Organizer and Curator for the 2024 Performance Cluster, an annual art festival hosted by the Rome University of Fine Arts. In past years, the festival focused exlusively on performance art works, but was opened up in the 2024 edition to include video art installation that pulled from principles of performance art. The event took 6 months to plan and the 2024 edition, themed Beyond the Pale, included 24 international artists that were selected from an application pool to present their work during the week long festival. My roles included participating in the festival design, artist selection process, scheduling, copywriting, promotion, logistical management, and day-of execution of the event alongside a team of curators. In addition, we were each responsible for the individual curation and coordination of a portion of the performance pieces, working closely with our artists to execute their concept.

 

I was responsible for the curation of four performances and one work of video art: Dutch artist Janneke Leenders' performance video installation What I Forgot to Mention. Leenders' was interested in exploring the full range of auditory communication. She combines her performance background with the manipulation possible in video art by filming herself reading a particular speech and then, in editing, removes all the words, leaving only the "empty" spaces in between. The video aspect of this piece was part of her application to the festival and the two of us worked closely to find a way to properly install it in the Performance Cluster's video art exhibition which concluded the 5 day festival.

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Below, you can find the festival's official poster (designed by Ángela Sánchez-Ruiz, left), the curatorial text I wrote to accompany the installation (right), as well as an installation view of the piece at the festival's video exhibition (bottom).