In-conversation: Maria Amidu and Rohini Malik Okon
Listen to Maria Amidu and writer and researcher Rohini Malik Okon as they discuss themes of memory, care and tenderness found within Maria’s exhibition in the perpetual back and forth and her new commission 26,778,780 minutes.
Rohini was the Curatorial Project Manager for Future Collect, a partnership programme developed by iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) designed to create a dynamic new model to transform the culture of commissioning and collecting within museums. Towner was the third and final programme partner and Rohini worked closely with Towner on the selection of Maria’s work for the project.
This event took place on Saturday 31 August 2024 at Towner Cinema.
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About Maria Amidu
Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. She studied glass and ceramics at West Surrey College of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art. The title of her practice-based doctoral research project is materialising the voice to speak from the liminal: a conversation about carelessness. In 2022 she was awarded iniva’s third Future Collect Commission.
Through writing as artistic practice she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. She privileges fault lines and weak spots as essential components in her artworks – fragility, fracture, instability, dissolve, impermanence, residue, mess, breaks, risk – and is currently working with papermaking, printmaking, audio-visual recording, and indigo dyeing to realise ideas.
About Rohini Malik Okon
Rohini Malik Okon is a curator, producer and writer based in London. For more than twenty years she has commissioned and produced projects and events with a wide range of artists and communities. These initiatives have often evolved through collaborations and partnerships with various individuals and organisations, both nationally and internationally, and she has a particular interest in highlighting diverse cultural perspectives on knowledge and creativity.
Her work is rooted in interdisciplinary exchanges, performative and collaborative practices, and an exploration of the relationships between art, public space and civic dialogue.
Rohini was the Curatorial Project Manager for Future Collect.
