A conversation on Atta Kwami with Dr Perrin Lathrop and Serubiri Moses

About

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. His writing is primarily concerned with aporia, violence, as well as exhibition histories. His exhibitions are rooted in methods of collective teaching, and alternative epistemologies. His recent extensive peer-reviewed article on the Johannesburg Biennale is "Why Exhibit Trauma?" (Southeast of Now, 2024). He serves as part-time faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice (DE/US), Dark Study (US), Digital Earth Fellowship (NL), and he has delivered lectures at Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, and basis voor aktuelle kunst (NL), College of the Atlantic, and University of the Arts Helsinki (FL). As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He is Contributing Editor at e-flux journal, and his forthcoming book Judith Namala: A Novella is published by CARA.

Perrin Lathrop is the Assistant Curator of African Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She has held curatorial and research fellowships at Fisk University Galleries, the Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian. She received her Ph.D. in Art & Archaeology and African American Studies from Princeton University in 2021. Her research and teaching explore the interlocking intellectual histories and networks of nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and modernism that informed art produced under the strictures of colonialism in Africa. Perrin was co-curator of the traveling exhibition African Modernism in America with Fisk University Galleries and the American Federation of Arts (2022–24). The exhibition publication, which Perrin edited, has won awards from the Association of Art Museum Curators, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, and the College Art Association.