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Biography
Professor Carolina Rito is a researcher and curator whose work is situated at the intersection between knowledge production, the curatorial, and contested historical narratives. She is Professor of Creative Practice Research, Research Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities, Coventry University; an Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum; and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Rito is the Executive Editor of The Contemporary Journal and has published in international journals such as King’s Review, Mousse Magazine, and Wrong Wrong. From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, leading the partnership with Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also taught from 2014 to 2016. She lectures internationally—in Europe, South America, and the Middle East—on her research and curatorial studies.
Education/Academic qualification
Curatorial/Knowledge, Doctorate, Goldsmiths, University of London
Curatorial Studies, MA, Universidade de Lisboa
External positions
Chair of the Collaborative Research Working Group, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum
2018 → …
Editor-in-Chief, The Contemporary Journal
2018 → …
Executive Board Member, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum
2017 → …
Visiting Researcher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2016 → …
Keywords
- AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
- exhibition studies
- curating
- exhibition histories
- DT Africa
- Liberation Movements
- Colonialism
- Postcolonial Studies
- NX Arts in general
- curatorial studies
- curating
- cinema
- contemporary art
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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CAMPUS Independent Study Programme
Rito, C., Sternfeld, N., Dyangani Ose, E., Bhambra, G., Gario, Q., Franke, A., Condorelli, C. & Campt, T.
18/10/19 → 30/09/20
Project: Other
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The Changing Same? British Black Artists and Visual Arts Organisations in the Midlands
Rito, C. & Goodwin, P., 25 May 2023, 1 ed. Coventry: Coventry University. 88 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Discoveries Museum and the Contested Colonial Legacies in Contemporary Portugal
Rito, C., Faucquez, A-C. (ed.), Gosson, R. (ed.) & Michael, A. (ed.), 1 May 2023, (Submitted) Narrativizing Slavery in European Museums: Arts and Representations. Liverpool University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The essayistic in the curatorial: Repurposing the politics of exhibition
Rito, C., Jul 2023, From the scenic essay to the essay-exhibition: Expanding the essay form in the arts beyond literature and filme.. Delbecke, J. (ed.). Ghent: Ghent University, p. 99-106 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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"Not Propaganda": A Curatorial Staging on the Aesthetic-Political Continuities Between the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa and the Portuguese Revolution
Rito, C., 1 Jan 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
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The politics of radical interdependence in critical pedagogies: A non-alternative context for CAMPUS at Nottingham Contemporary
Rito, C., 1 Apr 2022, In: Art & the Public Sphere. 11, 1, p. 61-68 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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The Anatomy of Crises in Curating: Politics of Display and Neoliberalism
Carolina Rito (Keynote speaker), Inês Moreira (Keynote speaker), Cristina Moraru (Speaker) & Cătălin Gheorghe (Speaker)
13 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Una Conversacion Alrededor de Lo Curatorial Una Filosofia de la Curaduria con Carolina Rito
Carolina Rito (Speaker) & Carolina Cerón (Chair)
9 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public Engagement Event
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Critical Curating: Practices, Research and Infrastructures
Carolina Rito (Organising Committee), Mick Wilson (Speaker), Henk Slager (Speaker), Steven Henry Madoff (Speaker), Cătălin Gheorghe (Speaker), Bige Orer (Speaker), Ian Sergeant (Panel Facilitator), Ryan Hughes (Speaker), Antra Priede (Speaker), Louise Adkins (Panel Facilitator), Elizabeth Benjamin (Panel Facilitator) & Judith Mossman (Speaker)
10 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public Engagement Event
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Art-Study-Action: Developing Methods of Opinion Formation with Cultural Organisations
Mel Jordan (Contributor), Carolina Rito (Organiser), Simon Ellis (Contributor), Anthony Luvera (Contributor), Scott Delahunta (Organiser), Jose Dias (Contributor), Ruth Gibson (Contributor), Petra Johnson (Contributor), Andrew Hewitt (Contributor), Teoma Naccarato (Contributor) & Kevin Walker (Contributor)
1 Jun 2023Activity: Other
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The Changing Same? Roundtable and Book Launch
Carolina Rito (Organising Committee), Paul Goodwin (Organising Committee), Anjalie Dalal-Clayton (Invited Speaker), Marlene Smith (Invited Speaker) & Ian Sergeatn (Invited Speaker)
31 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public Engagement Event
Prizes
Press/Media
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Entrevista: Carolina Rito. O Museo en Transformacion
Carolina Rito & Maria Bella
22/01/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Black Arts Movement in Coventry
Carolina Rito & Sandra Godley
18/04/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other