Curating in COVID: challenges and wins

From Zoom installations to virtual media calls, curator Natalie King talks about curating an international exhibition mid-pandemic.
Woman in Australian bush with Victorian dress and rabbit headdress..

Melbourne based curator Natalie King is no stranger to curating exhibitions across distance, having been charged with presenting Tracey Moffatt’s work for the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, among other important international exhibitions across Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Thailand and New Zealand.

Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography brings together four Australian and four Japanese photo-based artists who contemplate our destiny while reflecting on our shared past, and had been postponed from 2020, so King and co-curator Yuri Yamada were determined to push forward with its presentation.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina