What curators want

They're pivotal figures in the contemporary art world, but many of us don't know that much about the work of professional curators. What does their day-to-day look like? How do they decide who to work with, and what makes a good artist-curator relationship? We ask all the tough questions in this roundtable with Sunshine Wong from Bloc Projects and Damon Jackson-Waldock from The Art House!

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Sunshine Wong is co-director of Bloc Projects in Sheffield. She completed her doctoral thesis on social practice in 2019 and her current practice is situated in infrastructures, critical care approaches, and co-vulnerabilities in urgent times. She irregularly convenes TL;DR, a slow reading group that questions how contemporary art makes a place for itself in public life. At Bloc Projects, she developed the online platform Harsh Light as well as programmes with artists including JJ Chan, Eelyn Lee, Kedisha Coakley, Una Hamilton Helle & Verity Birt.

Damon Jackson-Waldock is programme director at The Art House in Wakefield and former Deputy Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Damon is dedicated to promoting graduate, early-mid career, and career-break artistic practice, as well as using programming to raise important questions, break barriers and promote accessibility.

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