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Tumelo Mosaka is a South African curator based in Princeton, NJ. He has received a B.A. (1993) in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and an M.A. (2000) from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. Mosaka currently serves as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Champaign, IL; he pursues curatorial projects independently as well. During his tenure at KAM, he has curated the following exhibitions: On Screen: Global Intimacy (2009), Baggage Allowance (2010), The Bikeriders: Danny Lyon (2010), Lida Abdul (2010), OPENSTUDIO (2011), The Kangarok Epic (2011), iona rozeal brown (2011), and Makeba! (2011). Prior to joining KAM, Mosaka was Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, where he organized the exhibitions Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007) and Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley (2004) and co-curated Open House: Working in Brooklyn
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Of course the challenges are many, the most crucial one being fundraising. Working within the University has been great because of the resources available to support such initiatives, however, its not always enough. The Krannert has been a great place for me to advance my practice and to consider working across different disciplines. For instance, I developed OPENSTUDIO, a public program and artist residency intended to forge interdisciplinary learning and cultural exchange between students, faculty, and the community of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Projects included performance, mural drawing, experimental dance and environmental explorations. [It's about] transforming the museum into an active space of production rather than the familiar passive and contemplative viewing. Ive been thinking about ways of broadening the museums definition with the understanding that not all museums need to be this interactive. Being at a research university has provided the context for such experimentation and research, which I hope to continue.
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From the exhibition On-Screen: Global Intimacy, 2011. Installation image. Photo by Kathryn Koca Polite.
GK: What draws you to emerging artists work? TM: I dont think I do that intentionally, however, Im drawn to working with artists who are less known because of the flexibility and uncertainty about their works. Im interested in this moment of fragility and unpredictability. This is because I also begin from the point of uncertainty with the hope of collaborating with the artist in a process of discovery.
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Im always interacting with artists who have been overlooked by the art world. Im always searching for what I cant find and so the journey becomes crucial in expressing those vulnerabilities, and at times, convictions about personhood. I guess Im also interested in developing primary scholarship around the works of artists whose ideas challenge my thinking. Finally, I dont see many of these artists as emerging, they are artists whose voices have not been heard for various reasons.
*This conversation will be continued on the Art21 Blog next Friday, when Tumelo Mosaka will discuss his upcoming co-curatorial project (with Irene V. Small) Blind Field, which focuses on twenty Brazilian artists. Blind Field will be presented at the Krannert Museum and later, the Broad Museum (June 13).
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