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Siavash Minoukadeh



curatorial projects


  1. Proserpina: Henry Baker & Preslav Kostov
  2. BFI Future Film Festival 2022
  3. BFI London Film Festival 2021
  4. Bristol, Britain and Beyond
  5. ‘A View at Once so Lofty and so Banal’
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video projects


  1. Studio visit: CLUMP Collective
  2. Future Leaders International
  3. whitenoisespace
  4. SCENE interviews

writing 
projects


  1. On Encounters Short Film Festival 2021
  2. On Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
  3. On Community Art
  4. On Derek Jarman (pp. 248-52)
  5. On Gavin & Stacey
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Siavash Minoukadeh

  1. wants everyone to have a good time but understands the scale of serious labour required to make this possible.
  2. studies at the Royal College of Art on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and occasional Thursdays.
  3. is 22M, into art, films, running. looking for similar.
Mark

There’s only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe 

Britney Spears, Circus

And baby I’m a put on a show kind of girl. 

I’m a London-based curator, creative producer and writer working across contemporary art and film. My curatorial work includes events, commissioning and exhibitions in both digital and in-person formats. I also work with video and writing, producing non-fiction and artistic content.

I have worked with leading national institutions including the British Film Institute, Barbican Centre and Watershed and have worked internationally including on projects in Berlin and with collaborators from Lagos and Durban.

My work engages with ideas of place, community and queer methods of disrupting. Across the fields I work in, my practice is shaped by an ethics of centring joy and entertainment. I want my work to be meaningful and impactful and I don’t believe that I can achieve that if my practice can’t have a bit of fun. I can’t imagine a utopia using just theory and righteous anger and I wouldn’t want the audiences I’m working for to have to either. So let’s have fun, seriously. 

As with many creatives, I am a freelancer, part-timer and also currently in education. I work independently and as part of larger projects within institutions and in a range of roles and disciplines. All this is to say that describing what I’ve done, where and how, is not always easy to present clearly in a single place. More details about the individual projects I have worked on can be found on my curatorial, video and writing pages. Below is a more traditional CV.

CV


Education


2021-23: Curating Contemporary Art MA
Royal College of Art

2018-21: 1st, Liberal Arts BA (Hons)
University of Bristol

Employment


Jul 2021 - present: Freelance Marketing and Content AssistantBFI Film Academy South West, Watershed, Bristol

May 2021 - Jul 2021: ResidentRife Magazine, Watershed, Bristol

Sep 2020 - present: Young Programmer
BFI Film Academy, London 

Jun 2020 - Sep 2020: Film Festival Submissions Previewer
BFI Film Academy, London

Awards


2021: Best Dissertation in Liberal Arts
University of Bristol

2021: Best Overall Achievement in the Liberal Arts (BA) Programme University of Bristol

2021: Billy Dowling - Reid Award for Outstanding Commitment 
Student Publication Awards

Courses


June 2021: Future Leaders Lab InternationalPlayable Cities, Bristol, Lagos & Durban

Oct 2020 - May 2021: Young Visual Arts GroupBarbican Centre, London

Voluntary


Nov 2020 - May 2021: Equality, Liberation & Access Officer
Art History Bristol

Jun 2020 - May 2021: Deputy Digital Editor
Epigram, Bristol

Jun 2019 - May 2020: Entertainment Subeditor
Epigram, Bristol

Jan 2019 - Jun 2019: Invigilator
Spike Island Gallery, Bristol