Hannah Zafiropoulos

My interest in curating lies in expanding notions of what may constitute 'performative curating' through practice-based research in the field of the curatorial. Stemming from a commitment to emancipatory political discourses, my work seeks to develop new methodologies of curatorial practice that move beyond representation to embody what Chantal Mouffe calls 'the political'.

My MA dissertation Curator as Procedural Author: Participation and Performativity in 'the curatorial' sought to establish Procedural Authorship, a term derived from video game and simulation theory, as a methodology of curatorial practice through which the curator may author a context, or frame, that enables open-ended participation in the production of new knowledge. This concept forms the basis of my ongoing research through various independent projects and writing.

My interest in working with artists lies primarily in supporting the production of new work that exists within the frame of long-term collaborative research, often responding to and engaging with alternative sites of presentation. The graduate project Itinerant Assembly I co-curated in collaboration with Gasworks, London, sought to challenge static exhibitionary formats through the development of a long-term programme of collaborative research which came together in a series of 'assemblies' over a six month period. Responding to the context of the organisation in a rapidly developing area of London and its acclaimed international artist-in-residence programme, the project sought to embody contemporary nomadism in the global city, questioning the productive potential of the temporary through meetings of people in real and virtual space.