Our series of curators’ and artists’ talks was initiated this year by our beloved collaborator Daphne Dragona, independent curator, theorist, writer and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program selection committee.
Daphne talked about the areas of her curatorial research, and she particularly elaborated on the concept of degrowth and what it could mean for the arts.
Thank you Daphne for sharing such insightful knowledge and inspiring ideas.
Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin. Among her topics of interest have been: the controversies of connectivity, the promises of the commons, the importance of affective infrastructures, the ambiguous role of technology in relation to the climate crisis. Some of her curated -or co-curated- exhibitions are: Weather Engines (Onassis Stegi & National Observatory of Athens, 2022), Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea: Recited from and Empty Middle (AnnexM, Megaron, Athens, 2021), Trials & Errors (Romantso, Athens, 2021) Reprogramming Earth (NeMe, Limassol, 2020) Kyriaki Goni, Counting Craters on the Moon (Aksioma, 2019), Tomorrows, Urban fictions for possible futures (Diplareios, Athens, 2017), Capture All (transmediale, Berlin, 2015), Afresh, a new generation of Greek artists (ΕΜSΤ, 2013), Homo Ludens Ludens (Laboral, Gijon, 2008). Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press, Diaphanes, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Talks of hers have been hosted at Mapping Festival (Geneva), MoMA (New York), Hek (Basel), Arts in Society (London), Leuphana University (Lueneburg) and Goethe University (Frankfurt). Dragona has worked as curator for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019, and more recently for EMAF (Osnabrück) for the editions of 2021 and 2022. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens.