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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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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 → …
Project: Other
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Fabricating Publics: Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era
UBERMORGEN & Forensic Architecture, 1 Dec 2021, Liverpool: Open Humanities Press. 258 p. (DATA Browser)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
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Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary
Rito, C., 1 Dec 2021, Exhibitionary Acts of Political Imagination. Gheorghe, C. & Wilson, M. (eds.). PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden), Göteborgs universitet, p. 70-80 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Life Futures
Rito, C., Toto, A., Khazrik, J., Honeywill, H., varin, M., Domínguez, P., Taulis, A., Lorenzini, D. & Testa, F., 1 Oct 2021Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Exhibition
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Advocacy Document on Collaborative Research
Rito, C. & Balaskas, B., 29 Jan 2020, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum. 8 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Architectures of Education
Gudskul - Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies & Moreno, J., 2020, In: e-flux Architecture.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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FEINART Summer School
Carolina Rito (Keynote Speaker)
21 Sep 2022 → 23 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Reach. Practice-based research: collaborative practices in Arts and History.
Carolina Rito (Keynote Speaker)
31 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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From the scenic essay to the essay exhibition
Carolina Rito (Speaker)
27 Apr 2022 → 30 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Connect/Cut. Infrastructures and Collective Activity
Carolina Rito (Keynote Speaker)
6 Apr 2022 → 8 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Modern Revolutions and the Idea of Europe
Carolina Rito (Speaker)
9 Sep 2021 → 12 Sep 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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