Meet Shubigi Rao and Mario D'Souza

Please join us for a talk with, Shubigi Rao and Mario D'Souza, chief curator and assistant curator of the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India, 2020.

This event is part of OCA's mezzanine programme.

Wednesday, 30 October
17:00–18:30

Free and open to the public, but space is limited.

Please RSVP to info@oca.no

Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Nedre gate 7
0551 Oslo

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao makes layered installations of books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video works, ideological board games, and archives. These often immersive and tongue-in-cheek works demonstrate her diverse interests in subjects such as archaeology, neuroscience, libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies, and natural history.

Her current texts, video, photographs and artworks concern ecological and human interactions through the movements of objects and language. She is currently chief curator of the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2020.

Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer. He was formerly curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi. His research interests include political imaginaries, the nation building project, cultures and aesthetics of dissent, public acts of assembling, legal and extra-legal systems, evidence and truth. Mario is interested in emerging contemporary practices in the ‘Global South’ aligning South East Asia, South and West Asia, Africa and South America.

In 2019, he contributed to how to reappear: through the quivering leaves of independent publishing curated by Ala Younis and Maha Maamoun at the Beirut Art Center. His exhibitions with Khoj include This Must be True, that he co-curated in 2019, along with projects like 'Evidence Room' (2017) and 'Turn of the tide' (2018). He is currently on the curatorial team for the 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2020.

Shubigi Rao and Mario D’Souza are visiting Norway as part of OCA’s International Visitor Programme (IVP). OCA runs an International Visitor Programme to support international curators and cultural producers in their research in Norway for upcoming exhibitions and projects.