I am excited to share this incredible festival I have been assisting the curation of alongside Giulia Gregnanin and @joannecoates.bsky.social. We have a brilliant programme lined up with artists, researchers and performers sharing their knowledge about the many facets of gendered labour.
02.06.2025 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading of the day is from my absolute idol Eleonora Belfiore, critically analysing "bullshit" in cultural policy. I aspire to be as badass as her one day
22.05.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attended the opening of @rnmmsnnzn.bsky.social new show at AutoItalia. In 2 rooms they have packed so much! Sound practices and curation at their finest beautifully expressing themes of waiting, action & inaction of protest, through speculative futurities.
11.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting times: my #PhD research about "The Social Impact of Co-Curation and Participatory Practices in Large Museums" is live on Imperial War Museum website.
Check it out: www.iwm.org.uk/sofia-cotrona
Let's #connect if you research participatory practices & curation for #socialjustice!
10.04.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woke up to the most wonderful surprise by @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social after my time as part of their #YouthPanel. Thank you so much, I will treasure this gift & all the work done together!
03.04.2025 12:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is it though a scandal? Or just the cultural sector doing its thing and continuing to systemically supports the exclusion of folks that don't come from money?
02.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
19.03.2025 14:36 — 👍 25 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social 'Culture is bad for you' shaped me as a policy researcher & cultural practitioner when I first studied it at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Excited to get my hands on this second edition and see what has or hasn't changed!
31.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
My #readingoftheday "Cultutes of the Curatorial - Hospitality." Been loving its critical framing of #curation as practice of care & power, hosting and giving.
It adds to my theoretical framework to think about #co-curation in large #museums answering to questions of exhibition performativity.
#PhD
31.03.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello everyone so excited to connect! I am a socially engaged curator & feminist art writer. I just left Edinburgh for London to start a PhD on the social impact of co-curation in large museums at IWM & UCA via AHRC.
Here's me & the Berlin Wall at IWM celebrating the start of this journey!
11.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject
A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking.
Festival of Printmaking 15-17 Aug 2025. University of Stirling.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
I’m a print artist living and working on the west coast of Scotland.
www.debwing.com
Only original prints, no nfts!
Director @fpalondon.bsky.social (The Foreign Press Association in London); UK Correspondent for Il Giorno and Quotidiano Nazionale, Italy; Member of UK Press Gallery; Chair of Foreign Lobby
Official Bluesky of Victoria Miro, a contemporary art gallery with locations in London and Venice
Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
We work with museums, heritage sites and cultural organisations to help them welcome and include children, young people and families.
www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk
Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Political theorist // editor at Historical Materialism // working on the climate crisis, commons, ecosocialist strategy & desire 🍉
Lecturer at QMUL • editor at Historical Materialism • author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025)
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
Postdoctoral researcher in the History of Art department, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board.
https://uva.academia.edu/LouisHartnoll
Somers Towner, militant aesthete.
Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
