March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960

Mithu Sen’s conceptual art practice is born of a desire to subvert hierarchical social codes pertaining to myths of the market, sexuality, language and marginalisation.

AbdouMaliq Simone’s research is focused on the explorations of (non)human life in an era of extensive urbanisation, as well as the infrastructures and politics of urban popular economies across different geographies.

Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sydney, and Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh.

Simon Sien Yong Soon is Senior Lecturer in art history at the Visual Art Studies Program, Faculty of Creative Arts at Universiti Malaya.

John Tain is Head of Research at Asia Art Archive, as well a curator, advisor, lecturer and writer.

Jason Tamiru, a Yorta Yorta man, has worked with many of Melbourne’s most iconic performing arts companies, museums and festivals.

Gilane Tawadros examines issues of race, globalisation and modern art, with a particular focus on the ways in which artistic expression can provide fresh perspectives on the world.

Krista Thompson researches and teaches the modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, with an emphasis on photography.

Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Creative Writing and Africana Studies as well as the executive director of Express Newark, a centre for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University, Newark.

Art historian Nina Tonga is Curator Contemporary Art at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Jelena Vesić is an independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer.

Charlene Villaseñor Black’s research focuses on the art of the Ibero-American world.

Curator and writer Zoé Whitley is the Director of the Chisenhale Gallery, London.

An independent curator and art writer, Octavio Zaya is currently creating a Decolonial Archive for museum TEA (Tenerife Space for the Arts), Canary Islands.