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carried out research on the historical photography
collection of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. She
recently graduated from the M.A. program in Museum
Curating from the University of Amsterdam and the
VU University Amsterdam, during which she worked
as a curator in training at the photography collection
of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Here she
assisted in the exhibitions On the Move: Storytelling
in Contemporary Photography and Graphic Design
and How Far How Near—The World in the Stedelijk.
Kooiman lives and works in Amsterdam.
Daniela Ortiz
Daniela Ortiz was born in Cusco, Peru, in 1985. Her
work generates spaces of tension in which concepts
of nationality, race, social class, and genre are
explored in order to critically understand structures of
inclusion and exclusion in society. Her recent projects
and research revolve around the issue of migration
control, its links to colonialism, and its management
by European states and societies. At the same time,
she has produced projects about the Peruvian upper
class and its exploitative relationship with domestic
workers. Daniela gives talks and participates in discussions
on Europe’s migration control system and its
ties to coloniality in different contexts.
Rasha Salti
Rasha Salti is a writer, researcher, curator and
an international programmer for the Toronto
International Film Festival. She lives in Beirut.
Together with Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti cofounded
of the History of Arab Modernities in the
Visual Arts Study Group, a research platform focused
around the social history of art in the Arab world. They
co-authored the paper, “Beirut’s Musée Imaginaire:
The Promise of Modernity in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction”, on the history of a 1957 exhibition of
reproductions. Their current work is focused on the
history of the International Art Exhibition in Solidarity
with Palestine that was opened in Beirut in 1978. This
research was transformed into an exhibition, Past
Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts of the International Art
Exhibition for Palestine, 1978 (here), which opened at
MACBA in 2015.
Colin Siyuan Chinnery
Colin Siyuan Chinnery is an artist and curator based
in Beijing. He is currently Director of the Wuhan Art
Terminus (WH.A.T.), a contemporary art institution
under development in Wuhan, China; founder
of the Beijing Sound Museum, a long-term project
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