International Symposium on Photography & Visual Culture
International Symposium on Photography & Visual Culture
RESEARCH NETWORK | Associate researcher
MARIANNA TSIONKI
Leeds Arts University, United Kingdom
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Marianna Tsionki is a curator, researcher and educator working at the intersection of contemporary art, ecology and technology. She is concerned with the role of curatorial and institutional practice in a time of ecological crisis, with particular focus on methodologies of alter-institutionality and critical pedagogy. Previous curatorial projects and writing have focused on scientific and social conditions of the Anthropocene as well as aesthetic and knowledge production of climate change issues; topics of interest have been the impact of globalisation, migration, the politics of extractivism, global ecologies of resource exploitation, humanity’s post-industrial relationship with nature, indigenous and local ecological knowledge. Marianna is University Curator at Leeds Arts University heading up the Curation and Library department. She holds a Ph.D in Curatorial Studies from Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University of London, Visual Cultures Department.
Research Interests
Marianna is interested in eco-femininst practices, indigenous Naturecultures and local ecological knowledge as methods of developing kinship networks and interspecies (plant/animal/human) modes of life. She is particularly interested in the subject areas of curatorial knowledge and practice, curatorial theory and exhibition history, institutional critique and alter-institutionality, political art and critical ecological practices, media theory, techno-ecological art practices and environmental media, ecoaesthetics and the Anthropocene, indigenous and local ecological knowledge, geopolitics, migration and mobilities.
Recent work & publications
Edited books
2018Contemporary Research Intensive (The Contemporary Condition). Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-391-2, 72p.
Published articles and chapters in books2022 ‘Porto Marghera: Working-class Environmentalism’, in Cristina Baldacci, and al, eds., Venice and the Anthropocene. Venice: wetlands. p.135-138
2022 ‘UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION - Rare Earthenware' in Benek Cincik, & Tiago Torres-Campos, eds., Postcards from the Anthropocene. Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation, Barcelona: dpr-barcelona press.
2021 'Imagined Mappings of Geopolitical Power: liquid borders, military infrastructures and ecological destruction in the South China Sea' in Paul Gladston, Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk, Ming Turner, eds., Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China. London & Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
2018 'Curating the Anthropocene', ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 43, Spring 2018. Pp.42-53. https://www.antennae.org.uk/back-issues-12017 'aaajiao, Remnants of an Electronic Past', PUBLIC, spring 2017.
Selected curatorial projects
19 Jan-1 Apr 2023. Kyriaki Goni: Data Garden, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
16 Sep–15 Dec 2022. Jenny Beard & Connor Shields: Middle of the Road, Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds Arts University
6 May–18 Jun 2022. Kyriaki Goni: Networks of Trust, SixtyEight Institute, Copenhagen
29 Apr-23 Jul 2022. Marwa Arsanios: Who Is Afraid Of Ideology?, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
28 May – 1 August 2020. Meteorological Mobilities, Apexart, New York City, group exhibition and public programme
30 Mar-6 Apr 2019. A Cinematic Museum of the Everyday, Next Mixing Gallery, Shanghai
30 Nov-10 Dec 2017. Polyrhythmia, Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Manchester, group exhibition
12 Apr 2017. Towards throw-away technology, Whitechapel Gallery, London, pop-up exhibition and panel discussion