Online In-Conversation
with gastropoetics Curator, Noor Bhangu and artist-researchers Areum Kim & Svati Shah
23 FEBRUARY, 2024| 2 PM CST
Online via zoom - link here.
Meeting ID: 663 527 1992
No registration required
PLATFORM is excited to present our last offering of public programming
as an extension of our current group exhibition, gastropoetics.
Please join us, this Friday, for an online In-Conversation between the curator of gastropoetics,
Noor Bhangu with exhibiting researcher-artists, Svati Shah and Areum Kim. Returning to key
moments in their collaborative research, they will share insights on the diasporic histories of
culinary writing and the contested medium of ethnic cookbooks.
BIOGRAPHIES
Noor Bhangu (MB/NO) is a curator and scholar, whose practice is rooted in relational curatorial aesthetics and practices. Through curatorial intervention, she hopes to involve politics of history, memory and materiality to problematize dominant histories of representation. She completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices at the University of Winnipeg. In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University in Tkaronto, Toronto. Her past projects include Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet (2018) at Gallery 1C03, even the birds are walking (2020) at Latitude 53, the excess is ritual (2023) at Dunlop Gallery, and Homorientalism (2023) at Smack Mellon. She is currently working on a group exhibition and public program, Queer Islamic Art, at Nasjonalmuseet for Spring 2025.
Areum Kim (AB) (she/her) is a writer, book-maker and arts organizer based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, AB. Her research is often concerned with diaspora and translation. With her collaborator, she runs Yolkless Press, an initiative to make artists’ publications.
Svati Shah (IMD) is an anthropologist who works on queer and feminist theory, space, and political economy in India. They are an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with affiliations at the University of Bergen in Norway and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Their cooking and fermentation practice is part of a larger critique of what is often lost for queer and non-cisgender people of color when we break the normative rules of social reproduction. This is particularly for immigrant queer and transgender people living in the Euro-American North. Sva makes and invents food and ferments to give them away as a gesture of love, and in rebellion against this norm.
