Rosie Hermon

Central to my curatorial positioning is my engagement with projects that concern themselves with the social or political, perhaps not obviously in their content, but in their form or in the wider issues implicated in their presentation. My hope is that through my curatorial practice I can begin to think through such concerns with others, and to present the complexity that is inherent in thinking about contemporaneity and contemporary issues.

I have a strong sense that curating should be for an audience, and I am deeply interested in how people perceive and understand. Through my dissertation and graduate project I have explored questions of perception and collaboration through the lens of a ‘post-digital’ world, although understanding that the type of working and networking that the digital facilitates is bounded by the capabilities, particularities and aesthetics of the technology as both form and site.

I joined the course with a background in working on EU-funded cultural projects, of working internationally and developing partnerships with cultural organisations abroad. I have really valued working on these broad and multi-faceted collaborations. As part of the curatorial team of a cross-Channel contemporary visual arts festival, for now at least, I have the opportunity to continue to organise and promote activities which are explicitly international in their outlook and through the different voices that they bring together, whilst still grounded in a specific context – in this case, in the landscape and people of the Sussex and Normandy region.