Els van der Plas, art historian and curator, is Director of the <strong>Prince</strong> <strong>Claus</strong> <strong>Fund</strong> since 1997.She was the founding director of the Gate Foundation (1987-97) an organisation that stimulatesintercultural exchange of contemporary art and is a member of the Board of Directors ofAmsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. She has curated several international exhibitions and wasadvisor to the exhibition ‘Africa Remix’ (Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hayward Gallery, London;and Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, 2005-2006). She has lectured at various institutions including theGoethe Institute (Germany), Kingston University (UK), Cornell University (USA), Van AbbeMuseum (Netherlands) and on the curators’ course at De Appel in Amsterdam. Her writingshave been published worldwide and she was co-editor of The Future is Handmade (<strong>Prince</strong> <strong>Claus</strong><strong>Fund</strong> Journal #10, 2003), Creating Spaces of Freedom (Saqi Books, 2000), The Art of AfricanFashion (Africa World Press, 1998) and Indonesian Modern Art (Gate Foundation/Cementi ArtFoundation 1993).Mark Sealy studied at London University’s Goldsmiths College and worked for the NetworkDocumentary Photographers before becoming Director of Autograph ABP in 1991. He initiatesand curates photography exhibitions, including a programme for Rencontres d’ Arles (1993), andrecently co-curated ‘Disposable People’ (London 2008) and ‘Bangladesh 1971’ (London 2008).Sealy lectures in the UK and publishes in British Journal of Photography, Creative Camera (DPICT),Foto 8, En Foco, Exposure, Index on Censorship and Foam. He has edited <strong>book</strong>s on Vanley Burke,Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Youssef Nabil, and recently published Different (with Stuart Hall). Hehas been a member of the Arts Council of England (ACE) Photography Advisory Panel, a purchaserfor ACE Fine Arts Collection, photography coordinator for London’s Africa ’95 season and amember of the jury for World Press Photo (1996 & 2005). The Royal Photographic Society recentlyawarded Mark Sealy the Hood Medal for services to photography.Viktor & Rolf (Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren) studied fashion at Arnhem’s Academy of theArts, began to show in Paris in the 1990s and presented their first Paris Haute Couture showand ‘fashion performance’ in 1998. Since 2000 they have designed women’s ready-to-wear, theirsignature ‘Monsieur’ menswear collection, shoes, silk accessories and eyewear. In 2005 theyintroduced ‘Flowerbomb’, their first fragrance for women, followed by ‘Antidote’ for men (2006).Described as a synthesis of fashion and art, their work was presented in a solo exhibitioncelebrating 10 years in fashion at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Paris 2003) and a retrospectiveexhibition of 15 years in fashion at Het Centraal Museum (Utrecht 2008-09). Their firstboutique, opened in Milan in 2005, is a classic couture salon, with an upside down décor – a playon new versus old, mixing classic and surreal, that is recognised as their idiom.Patrick Vilaire is a sculptor and cultural activist. He studied drawing and ceramics and taughtat Sainte Trinité School, Port-au-<strong>Prince</strong> (1965-76). Following further studies in ceramography,he worked in the Pre-Columbian Section of Haiti’s Bureau of Ethnology. A founding member,manager and teacher at the Poto Mitan cultural centre, in 1988 he was one of the co-creatorsof Haiti’s Foundation for Iconographic and Documentary Research. Since 1995 he has workedas technical manager of GRET-Haiti. Patrick Vilaire’s artworks have been exhibited in solo andgroup exhibitions (1969-2008) including the ‘First World Festival of Negro Arts’ (Dakar 1969)and ‘The World’s Altars’ (Dusseldorf 2002). His publications include Images d’Espanola et deSt. Domingue (1980) and La Poterie haïtienne, considérations techniques (1982). He is a memberof the International Academy of Ceramics and Associate Researcher of the SmithsonianInstitution. In 1991, Vilaire was awarded the Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters (France).136 2008 <strong>Prince</strong> <strong>Claus</strong> Awards
Octavio Zaya is an independent curator and art writer living in New York since 1978. He is directorof Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM (Las Palmas, Spain) and on theeditorial board of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. Curator at large and advisor forMUSAC (León, Spain), and a member of the advisory boards of Performa (New York) and MOCA/China (Hong Kong), he was co-curator of Documenta <strong>11</strong> (Kassel 2002) and the 1st and 2ndJohannesburg Biennials. Zaya conceived and was a curator of Versiones del Sur.Latinoamericaat Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid 2000) and recently curated retrospectives on Cerith WynEvans and Paul Pfeiffer. He has authored more than a dozen <strong>book</strong>s on artists and has contributedto numerous other <strong>book</strong>s and exhibition catalogues including Fresh Cream (2000). He is currentlyorganising an exhibition on Kyong Park’s projects at MUSAC, and another on Yinka Shonibarefor Comunidad de Madrid.Culture and the Human Body137
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