Meet the Curatorium behind the 23rd Biennale of Sydney
rīvus was developed and realised by a team of curators who represented the Biennale of Sydney’s core exhibition partners
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23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus
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rīvus – meaning ‘stream’ in Latin – was developed and realised by a Curatorium led by Artistic Director and acclaimed Colombian curator José Roca who worked with a group of respected local curators.
Meet the team behind the 23rd Biennale of Sydney.
José Roca
Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
José Roca, Artistic Director (2022) by Daniel BoudBiennale of Sydney
José Roca is a curator and Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá, and curator of the LARA collection, Singapore.
He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London (2012-2015) and managed the arts program at the Banco de la República (MAMU) in Bogotá.
José was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010.
He served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007) and is the author of Transpolitical: art in Colombia 1992-2012 (with Sylvia Suárez), and Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers (with Alejandro Martín).
Paschal Daantos Berry
Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Paschal Daantos Berry, Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2022) by Anna KuceraBiennale of Sydney
Paschal Daantos Berry is the Head of Learning and Participation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is a performance maker, curator, writer and dramaturg whose practice is focused on interdisciplinary, cross cultural, collaborative and socially engaged processes.
He is a creator of award-winning performance works, an artist mentor, and has worked for Urban Theatre Projects, Radio National, Griffin Theatre, Performance Space, Blacktown Arts, Canberra Youth Theatre and the Biennale of Sydney.
Anna Davis
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2022) by Anna KuceraBiennale of Sydney
Anna Davis is a Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She was recently co-curator of The National: New Australian Art (2019) and in 2015, curated the award-winning survey exhibition Energies: Haines & Hinterding.
She has curated many solo and group exhibitions at the MCA that include: Sun Xun (2018), Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy (2017) New Romance: Art and the Posthuman (2015/16), Workout: 7 days of experimental performance (2013) and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro (2012).
Anna has a Ph.D. in Media Arts from the University of NSW and publishes widely on contemporary art with a focus on experimental practice.
Hannah Donnelly
Producer, First Nations Programs, Arts & Cultural Exchange (ACE)
Hannah Donnelly, Producer, First Nations Programs (2022) by Zan WimberleyBiennale of Sydney
Hannah Donnelly is Producer, First Nations Programs at Arts + Cultural Exchange (ACE), Parramatta. Hannah is an award-winning Wiradjuri writer and producer interested in Indigenous futures, speculative fiction and responses to climate trauma.
She was Head Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks. She worked as a producer on Next Wave Festival 2018 and Laukatim Solwara AsiaTOPA 2017, and was a lead artist in Refuge, an Emergency Relief Centre simulation produced and directed by Arts House and City of Melbourne.
ACE, a partner for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, is a community-based contemporary arts organisation situated on the lands of the Burramattagal people and clans of the Darug Nation and a territory linked to the historical and political significance of waterways in Australia.
Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace (2022)Biennale of Sydney
Talia Linz is Curator at Artspace, Sydney, collaborating on solo and group exhibitions, new commissions, publications and multi-platform projects with contemporary artists across generations.
She has worked throughout the arts in performance, radio and publishing, including as the Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow at the Biennale of Sydney and assistant editor at Art & Australia.
Her writing has been published in monographs, journals and exhibition catalogues for the National Gallery of Australia, MCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Hatje Cantz, and the European Capital of Culture, among others.
Rivers are the sediment of culture. They are givers of life, routes of communication, places of ritual, sewers and mass graves. They are witnesses and archives, our memory. As such, they have also been co-opted as natural avenues for the colonial enterprise, becoming sites of violent conflict driven by greed, exploitation and the thirst to possess. Indeed, the latin root rīvus is also at the origin of the word rivalry. —The Curatorium
