Liquid, Love and Dreams: A Talk by Wanda Nanibush

As part of Interstices: ICA @ Ulises, artist and curator Wanda Nanibush will discuss what values drive her work in the arts.

Interstices is an intimate and ongoing forum in which Denise Ryner engages artists and curators in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (ICA) and other art and cultural spaces across Philadelphia.

About the Contributors:

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation. She recently won the Toronto Book Award for her co-authored book Moving the Museum. She is the Helen Frankenthaler Visiting Professor in Curating in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at CUNY in the Graduate Department of Art History in 2025. She is also part of the curatorial team for Counterpublic 2026, St.Louis’ Triennial. In 2024, Nanibush was awarded The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence. Nanibush founded aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of over 80 Indigenous curators, writers and artists.

Denise Ryner developed her curatorial practice in academic and non-profit arts organizations in Toronto, Vancouver and Berlin. Independently curated projects include Sediment: the archive as a fragmentary base(2023-2024) at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal and Art Museum, University of Toronto; Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) (2022) co-curated with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang at HKW, Berlin, and Common Cause: before and beyond the global (2018) at Mercer Union, Toronto. From 2017 to 2022 she was Director/Curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver. In 2023 she joined the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania as the Laporte Associate Curator.

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