Rokhsane Hovaida
Curatorial Projects
On the Edge of Time
Event series
10/2022 - 07/2023
Role: Curator
On the Edge of Time is a series of web-based events consisting of artist talks, workshops, performances, and screenings addressing the future of humanity, nature, and technology.
Inspired by historical utopian thinking, the series seeks out proposed frameworks to confront current and future ecological challenges. The series unfolds through July 2023 with programming that explores research on systems created in symbiosis with the natural world and speculative ecological futures.
This series is part of Prospect Art’s Broadcast program, which provides a virtual space for online public presentations in the form of discussions and interviews with the intention of creating a global forum for critical debate and presentation.
︎ Watch the video archive of events here.
On the Edge of Time is a series of web-based events consisting of artist talks, workshops, performances, and screenings addressing the future of humanity, nature, and technology.
Inspired by historical utopian thinking, the series seeks out proposed frameworks to confront current and future ecological challenges. The series unfolds through July 2023 with programming that explores research on systems created in symbiosis with the natural world and speculative ecological futures.
This series is part of Prospect Art’s Broadcast program, which provides a virtual space for online public presentations in the form of discussions and interviews with the intention of creating a global forum for critical debate and presentation.
︎ Watch the video archive of events here.
Yasmine K. Kasem: Behind Closed Doors
02/2023
Role: Curator
In Behind Closed Doors, Yasmine K. Kasem presents a series of large-scale woven tapestries that explores the queer feminine in tales from One Thousand and One Nights. By rendering imagery of relationships and affairs of women in the stories Tale of Kamar Al Zaman and The Lovers of Bassorah, these woven narratives highlight a history of queerness in Islamic and SWANA cultures.
Presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show Los Angeles.
Featured in Artnet and Hyperallergic.
In Behind Closed Doors, Yasmine K. Kasem presents a series of large-scale woven tapestries that explores the queer feminine in tales from One Thousand and One Nights. By rendering imagery of relationships and affairs of women in the stories Tale of Kamar Al Zaman and The Lovers of Bassorah, these woven narratives highlight a history of queerness in Islamic and SWANA cultures.
Presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show Los Angeles.
Featured in Artnet and Hyperallergic.
Mark Dion:
Theatre of the Natural World
Theatre of the Natural World
Exhibitions, Publications
02/2018 - 05/2018
Role: Exhibitions Researcher
A major solo exhibition of American artist Mark Dion presented by Whitechapel Gallery, with large-scale installations made between the 1990s to the present. Each installation drew attention to characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world.
I conducted extensive curatorial research, coordinated loans, and assisted in the production of a newly commissioned interactive work by the artist, titled Library for the Birds of London, which comprised of twenty-two live finches in a purpose-built aviary.
︎ Watch the artist introduce the exhibition here.
Publication: Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
A major solo exhibition of American artist Mark Dion presented by Whitechapel Gallery, with large-scale installations made between the 1990s to the present. Each installation drew attention to characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world.
I conducted extensive curatorial research, coordinated loans, and assisted in the production of a newly commissioned interactive work by the artist, titled Library for the Birds of London, which comprised of twenty-two live finches in a purpose-built aviary.
︎ Watch the artist introduce the exhibition here.
Publication: Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
1.51 Curatorial Residency
Exhibitions
01/2017 - 08/2017
Role: Curator
onepointfiveone was a long-term curatorial project born out of considerations around the physicality of space. The project developed through a series of six solo shows in a former storefront space that had limited access yet full visibility to its audience.
Engaging, site-specific installations were created by regional emerging artists addressing spatially-aware topics such as gentrification, digital heterotopias, and tourism marketing. Installations included a performance-based art lab, a sound installation, and video screenings. Artists included Simon Banos, Oliver Hickmet, Felicity Hammond, Harry Meadley, Gesamtatelier, and Rachel Pimm.
The series featured a robust public program, including several performances, artist talks, and curator’s tours.
Exhibition guides were written for each show.
onepointfiveone was a long-term curatorial project born out of considerations around the physicality of space. The project developed through a series of six solo shows in a former storefront space that had limited access yet full visibility to its audience.
Engaging, site-specific installations were created by regional emerging artists addressing spatially-aware topics such as gentrification, digital heterotopias, and tourism marketing. Installations included a performance-based art lab, a sound installation, and video screenings. Artists included Simon Banos, Oliver Hickmet, Felicity Hammond, Harry Meadley, Gesamtatelier, and Rachel Pimm.
The series featured a robust public program, including several performances, artist talks, and curator’s tours.
Exhibition guides were written for each show.