With her Fingers on the Political Pulse: The Transnational Curating of Maud Sulter

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Cherry, Deborah (2013) With her Fingers on the Political Pulse: The Transnational Curating of Maud Sulter. In: Politics in a glass case: feminism, exhibition cultures and curatorial transgressions. Value, art, politics (7). Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK, pp. 205-226. ISBN 9781846318931

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Type of Research:	Book Section
Creators:	Cherry, Deborah
Description:	This essay considers Maud Sulter (1960-2008) as a curator. Best known as an artist and writer, Sulter curated nearly 20 exhibitions, working in collaboration with the path-breaking artist and curator Lubaina Himid and independently. The essay explores the transnational perspectives of her curating, through discussion of Columbus Drowning, 1992, one of several shows she curated while working at Rochdale Art Gallery, and Photogenetic: Reviewing the Lens of History, 1995, curated for Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, innovative in its focus on archival art. The essay argues that Sulter's exhibition organising and public programming were informed and inspired by the discursive curating of the Black Art movement of the 1980s, initiated to reach and inform new audiences for art.
Official Website:	http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php/?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=54&AS1=9781846318931
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:	transnational, Black Art movement, discursive curating
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:	Liverpool University Press
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > London College of Communication Research Centres/Networks > Transnational Art Identity and Nation (TrAIN)
Date:	July 2013
Related Websites:	http://www.transnational.org.uk/projects/36-research-on-the-art-of-maud-sulter
Related Websites:	http://www.transnational.org.uk/projects...
Date Deposited:	29 May 2014 10:52
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2026 10:36
Item ID:	6560
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6560
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