Joasia Krysa
Joasia Krysa is curator and Professor of Exhibition Research at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Art and Design, with an adjunct position at Liverpool Biennial. At LJMU she leads the development of Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) (https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk/programme/), a public venue and a research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge.
Positioned across academic research and cultural ecology of Liverpool, ERL is underpinned by partnerships with cultural institutions in the city including Tate Liverpoolhttp://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool, John Moores Painting Prize, and Liverpool Biennialhttp://www.biennial.com/.
She is interested in curatorial theory, exhibition histories, biennials, and artistic and curatorial practices that intersect with technology. She is also interested in excavating neglected, forgotten or failed ideas, technologies, and figures that unwrite art histories and inspire contemporary practices and thinking.
Prior to joining LJMU, she served as Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark and co-curator of documenta 13 (Kassel 2012), where she was responsible for the first international retrospective exhibition of Finish artist and technology pioneer of 1960s Erkki Kurenniemi. Resulting from this, she edited (with Jussi Parikka) the first large scale monograph dedicated to Kurenniemi’s interdisciplinary body of work entitled Writing and Unwriting (New Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015). She also worked with artists including Mika Taanila, Song Dong, David Link, Tarek Atoui, and as part of documenta 13 series 100 Notes 100 Thoughts she authored a notebook on English mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace widely credited with writing in early 1840s the first computer programme.
In 2016, she co-curated 9th edition of Liverpool Biennial, and initiated Liverpool Biennial’s online commissioning programme in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s online platform artport, presenting projects by artists Morehshin Alleyari (2018) and Ubermorgen (2021). She is currently an international advisor for the first edition of Helsinki Biennial (2021) and curatorial advisor for Japan’s Sapporo International Art Triennale 2020 collaborating on an exhibition of London based artist Suzanne Treister.
Recent publications include edited book Systemics or, Exhibition as a Series (Sternberg Press 2017) and chapters in The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics (2015), Networks (Whitechapel/MIT Press 2014), and Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press 2020). She is currently working on a new book on curating and technology for Routledge (2021), a chapter for Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media Art (2021) and editing a volume in the Data Browser book series on Curating in Times of Pandemic (2021).