Documentation and Curation in Black Studies

During the spring of 2024, we are holding weekly interdisciplinary research seminars that are organised and led by professors in the research profile areas. A new theme is discussed each term. 

WRS welcomes all SKH teachers, senior researchers, PhDs, MA students, and an invited public, WRS are SKHs primary context for encountering the research happening within and in relation to SKH.

WRS provides a regular time and space for internal and external researchers to come together to share a variety of practices, perspectives and approaches, to identify affinities and differences, to raise common lines of enquiry, and to engage in critical discourse and intersubjective dialogue across an array of themes, subject areas and artistic disciplines. 

Read more about this seminar serie here: Spring 2024: Wednesday Research Seminar series 

Documentation and Curation in Black Studies

Tawanda Appiah in conversation with John-Paul Zaccarini

Tawanda Appiah is a Zimbabwean curator, writer, researcher and editor based in Malmö, Sweden. His research-centred practice often revisits history to make sense of the contemporary milieu. He is the curator at Skånes konstförening and part of Njelele Art Station, and previously held the position of Curator of Education & Public Programming at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

Appiah has curated several exhibitions, public programmes and interventions including co-curating the GIBCA Extended exhibition 2021 – Comforting the machine. Appiah's latest exhibition, FLIGHT (2023), featured works by Kudzanai Chiurai, Frida Orupabo and Eric Magassa at Malmö Konsthall. Other projects include; No Country Like (Skånes konstförening, 2018); Better Safe and Sorry (Moderna Museet, 2018); On Practices (Malmö Konsthall and Skånes konstförening, 2019); To Where Are We Beautifully Going? (2020); in(visible) (Malmö Konstmuseum, 2021), Sonic Insurrections (2022).

Appiah sits on various boards including Paletten Art Journal.