Dec 16 2020 25 mins
In our third episode of the JUST THREE podcast, host Catherine LaSota talks with curator and writer Işın Önol, a member of the Women Mobilizing Memory working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference.
Işın discusses the importance and difficulty of truly listening to stories outside of the dominant narrative(s), and the possibilities of curation and collaboration.
Isin Önol has been working as an independent curator (predominantly in the USA, Austria and Turkey) since 2009. Before that, she led the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art as its director and curator in Istanbul for three years. (2006-2009) She is an enthusiast producer of exhibition projects, talks, and other art-related events as well a researcher working in the field of contemporary art, cultural studies, and art education. Her curatorial research focuses on interconnecting archival information with oral histories to create platforms for collective memory that contrast and confront official narratives.
More about Işın Önol can be found here.
Learn more about the Women Mobilizing Memory working group here.
Website of the Center for the Study of Social Difference: https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/
Music in our podcasts is by Blue Dot Sessions, and episodes are mixed by Craig Eley.
Catherine LaSota, host of the JUST THREE podcast, is Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University.