Victoria Brooks
Victoria Brooks
Victoria Brooks
Host , Curator

Victoria Brooks is an independent curator based in London. Alongside co-directing The Island, she is co-curator of CINACT, Serpentine Gallery’s artist-cinema program, and producer of Canary Wharf Screen, a new artists’ film initiative for Art on the Underground. Upcoming and recent projects include the 2012 Whitstable Biennale, Kent; Cellophane, Calder Foundation, New York; Martin Creed, Sketch, London; The Island Studio Sessions: Haroon Mirza and Hannah Sawtell, ARTonAIR.org/Clocktower Gallery, New York; Interpretation, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Performa 11 at Calder Foundation, New York; CINACT: Serpentine Cinema (2009–2012, including Laurent Monteron, Lygia Pape, Dara Birnbaum, Agnes Varda, Ben Rivers, and Clio Barnard, among others); The Island Studio Dispatches, Art Dubai Projects, UAE and International Project Space, Birmingham; and Taverna Especial, 3rd Marrakech Biennale, Morocco.

Shows and Series by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Artist Haroon Mirza's 2012 performance featuring a machine he created during his residency at the Clocktower Gallery (NYC) as part of The Island Studio Sessions. The construction is made of found furniture, circuits, gadgetry, optical devices and ???


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Originally aired Monday, July 18th, 2011

Artist Matthew Day Jackson talks about his pop/rap music video, Everything Leads to Another, that functions as a point of departure for his exhibition of the same title, on view at Hauser & Wirth in London until July 30, 2011.


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Originally aired Monday, July 11th, 2011

Victoria Brooks hosts Black Summer by The Pony Tales performed at Sketch. Black Summer is a "film-album" by director Nadia Marquard Otzen and musician Kristoffer Sonne shot in the Faroe Islands featuring a live performance of the album.


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Hosted by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Monday, June 27th, 2011

Victoria Brooks talks with the director of Norway's Hordaland Art Centre, Anne Szefer Karlsen, in front of the Moroccan Pavilion to discuss her relationship with the exhibit shown there as well as overall festival highlights.


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Hosted by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Monday, June 20th, 2011

In this brief interview, curator and correspondent Victoria Brooks talks with Caroline Daley and Public Programs Curator Nicola Lees of London's Serpentine Gallery about which Biennale pavilions were the most impressive and why.


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Hosted by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Monday, June 20th, 2011

Sally Tallant, the head of programs for the Serpentine Gallery, and Tamsin Dillon, head of London's Art on the Underground, sit down with curator and correspondent Victoria Brooks in Venice to discuss the "Best of" the 2011 Biennale.


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Hosted by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

In front of the Moroccan Pavilion, curator Victoria Brooks speaks with Raphael Chikukwa, the curator of the Zimbabwe pavilion's first Venice Biennale exhibition entitled Seeing Ourselves to discuss the effort, the obstacles, and the art.


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Hosted by Victoria Brooks
Originally aired Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Victoria Brooks sits down with the director of Art Dubai Antonia Carver at Venice Biennale to talk about this year's United Arab Emirates Pavilion.


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Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2011

Recordings of performances pieces that used multiple pianos, taking place in the Markson Pianos showroom in London. Artists: David Cunningham, Leo Chadburn, Rie Nakajima, Daniel Jackson, Cerith Wyn Evans, Mieko Shimizu, Genevieve Murphy.


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Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2011

Ava Luna and Headless Horseman recorded at an exhibition and party in the abandoned AIG world headquarters building in lower Manhattan. This art and music show was presented by the Calder Foundation and curated by Victoria Brooks and Joe Ahearn.


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Originally aired Monday, April 11th, 2011

Dan Friel and the So So Glos recorded at an exhibition and party in the abandoned AIG world headquarters building in lower Manhattan. This art and music show was presented by the Calder Foundation and curated by Victoria Brooks and Joe Ahearn.


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