Description

Chương-Đài Võ is a researcher, curator, and current lauréate du programme de résidences Ville de Paris aux Récollets. She is interested in the migration and transformation of ideas and practices; the legacy of colonialist systems; and the relationship between art history and contemporary practices. She is working as a co-editor with Charles Esche of a forthcoming book from the Van Abbemuseum about the process of demodernizing and decolonizing its collection and programming approaches. Based in Paris, she is a member of the advisory board on Southeast Asia for AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), and an advisory member of an international digital humanities project called Mobile Subjects about artists who came to Paris from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th century.

Charles Esche is a curator and writer. Since 2004 he is Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and editorial director of Afterall Journal and Books based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. His main work has involved working on the constitution of art institutions, most recently the museum in the Play Van Abbe project (2009-2011). He was instrumental in projects and exhibitions like Picasso in Palestine (2011), Heartland (2008-2009), Be(com)ing Dutch (2008) and Forms of Resistance (2007). Under his directorship, the Van Abbemuseum has created a European network called L'Internationale, a co-operation with six European institutions and artist archives. In the last years, he curated major exhibitions including the Slovenian Triennale in Ljubljana in 2010, the 2nd and 3rd Riwaq Biennial, Palestine with Khalil Rabah in 2007 and 2009; the 9th Istanbul Biennial 2005 with Vasif Kortun, Esra Sarigedik Öktem and November Paynter and the Gwangju Biennale 2002 in Korea with Hou Hanru and Song Wang Kyung, in 2014, together with Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente and Oren Sagiv the 31st São Paulo Biennial and most recently the Jakarta Biennale 2015.

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