Keynote Lecture: José Roca

Located in Adelaide’s iconic Lion Arts Centre precinct, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) is South Australia’s leading independent contemporary visual arts organisation, proudly supporting artists to develop and present work on Kaurna Yarta (Kaurna Country).

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

Join us for a keynote lecture with Colombian curator, José Roca, the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus.

The Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia

5.30pm arrival for a 6pm start.Enter via the Fish Gates.P﻿lease contact grace@ace.gallery if you require an Auslan interpreter. Join us for a keynote lecture with Colombian curator, José Roca, the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus, who will discuss the importance of sustainability and collaboration within artistic and curatorial practice. In 2023, ACE has partnered with the Biennale of Sydney to present a local response to rīvus (Latin for “stream”): <a href="https://www.ace.gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/a-river-that-flows-both-ways" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A river that flows both ways: Selected works from rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney</a>. Dedicated to nature and water-based ecologies, rīvus tackles many timely environmental themes including pollution, climate change, and the effect of colonisation on First Peoples’ custodianship of ecosystems.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).José&#x27;s lecture will be followed by a Q&amp;A led by Dominic Guerrera.Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian person living on Kaurna Yarta. His practice includes curating, poetry, writing, podcasting and photography, focussing primarily on the social justice issues faced by Aboriginal peoples. He is currently employed as a First Nations Producer at Country Arts SA. In 2021 Dominic was awarded The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Unwelcome To Country’.

F﻿eature image: José Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), at The Cutaway, Barangaroo. Photography: Daniel Boud.   
I﻿mage 1: Dominic Guerrera. Photography by Latoya Aroha Rule. Courtesy  Dominic Guerrera. 

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