Convened by Chisenhale’s Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellow, Hang Li, artists Raqs Media Collective, curator and educator Shama Khanna, and scholar, performer, and curator Donatella Della Ratta discuss the possibilities of online space to re-imagine group deliberation and notions of community.

The discussion calls into question technological optimism and solutionism permitting online curating by reclaiming the politicality of working in tandem with technologies.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 in Delhi, India by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

Shama Khanna is a curator, writer and educator from London. They are the founder of Flatness (http://flatness.eu), a long-running 'decentred' platform for artists’ moving image and network culture.

Donatella Della Ratta is the author of Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (Pluto Press, 2018) and Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University, Rome.

Image caption: Donatella Della Ratta and Alessandro Turchioe, WHO WANTS TO LIVE AND DIE FOREVER? [still from video] (2021), Image courtesy the artists.

The Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellowship is hosted by Chisenhale Gallery.