2018 SPRING \ SUMMER CURATOR IN RESIDENCE
NEGARRA A. KUDUMU \ FROM FOOL TO WORLD, WORKS BY MIKE WAGNER
This spring and early summer, Bridge Productions unveiled our first Curatorial Residency featuring Negarra A. Kudumu. Throughout our 7 year history, we've often invited guest curators to take over our box sets and gallery spaces to use as laboratories for inquiry, ideas, and research. This year, we wanted to present the opportunity for an independent curator to take complete ownership of the space over time, to live in it the way we do, and see how that lived-in feeling shifts one's curatorial perspective.
The inaugural Bridge Productions Curatorial Residency hosted independent essayist & curator and Frye Art Museum Manager of Public Programs Negarra A. Kudumu, highlighting Negarra’s ongoing intellectual and professional trajectory from neophyte art administrator to established, independent art scholar, writer, and emerging curator. Drawing from her rich repository of public talks and writings, Negarra’s residency produced new writing on the key issues she continues to work with in her practice namely, among them the education and curation as spectrum, not a binary, curatoriality, and condition versus methodology particularly where African and African Diasporic cultural politics are concerned. To highlight and bring to bear these thought experiments, Negarra curated an exhibition featuring new and existing works by the prolific multidisciplinary artist Mike Wagner.
Through brush strokes and with refined sensibilities around what constitutes taboo, snark, and witty repartee, Mike Wagner brings the attention to the faces of the forgotten, disfigured, beautiful and unobtainable, while exposing us to both their weaknesses and our very own. A painter of true honesty, a lover of riparian entertainments and a genuine follower of his own trends, Mike Wagner paints to expose. He leaves ephemera that can, if we inculcate his offerings, illuminate our own journeys towards transformation and realization.
Residing at the intersections of contemporary art, critical theory, critical historiography, and curatoriality, Negarra A. Kudumu's practice is situated squarely within the domain of cultural production and consumption. She is ever investigating the ways in which these processes are visually and discursively interpreted, with an expertise in the contemporary art of the African continent and its diaspora, and a special interest in the emerging visual culture of South Asia, and its diasporas.
Negarra received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA from Leiden University. She is Manager of Public Programs at the Frye Art Museum and Founder and Owner of Perpetuity Healing Arts.
To see more information about each image or read Negarra's essays produced during this residency, simply click on a thumbnail below.
The inaugural Bridge Productions Curatorial Residency hosted independent essayist & curator and Frye Art Museum Manager of Public Programs Negarra A. Kudumu, highlighting Negarra’s ongoing intellectual and professional trajectory from neophyte art administrator to established, independent art scholar, writer, and emerging curator. Drawing from her rich repository of public talks and writings, Negarra’s residency produced new writing on the key issues she continues to work with in her practice namely, among them the education and curation as spectrum, not a binary, curatoriality, and condition versus methodology particularly where African and African Diasporic cultural politics are concerned. To highlight and bring to bear these thought experiments, Negarra curated an exhibition featuring new and existing works by the prolific multidisciplinary artist Mike Wagner.
Through brush strokes and with refined sensibilities around what constitutes taboo, snark, and witty repartee, Mike Wagner brings the attention to the faces of the forgotten, disfigured, beautiful and unobtainable, while exposing us to both their weaknesses and our very own. A painter of true honesty, a lover of riparian entertainments and a genuine follower of his own trends, Mike Wagner paints to expose. He leaves ephemera that can, if we inculcate his offerings, illuminate our own journeys towards transformation and realization.
Residing at the intersections of contemporary art, critical theory, critical historiography, and curatoriality, Negarra A. Kudumu's practice is situated squarely within the domain of cultural production and consumption. She is ever investigating the ways in which these processes are visually and discursively interpreted, with an expertise in the contemporary art of the African continent and its diaspora, and a special interest in the emerging visual culture of South Asia, and its diasporas.
Negarra received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA from Leiden University. She is Manager of Public Programs at the Frye Art Museum and Founder and Owner of Perpetuity Healing Arts.
To see more information about each image or read Negarra's essays produced during this residency, simply click on a thumbnail below.