This conversation was recorded on 24nd October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Eriola Pira and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Eriola Pira is the Curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Most recently, as Director of Programs, Pira led Art in General's international collaborations, residencies, public events, and fellowship programs building on her professional networks and experiences as Program Director and Curator at the artist-founded NARS Foundation, as Program Director for The Foundation for Culture and Society, where she led a network and exchange program between 12 art organizations throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the US. In this capacity, she also organized a number of international exhibitions, publications, and symposia, and launched a Curatorial Fellowship. She has presented exhibitions, talks, and collaborated with institutions worldwide. Pira was recently Curatorial Advisor for the 2019 BRIC South Brooklyn Biennial and has served as editor at Guernica magazine. A native of Albania, Pira has an M.A. in Visual Culture Theory from New York University and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Global Cultural Leadership Fellowship, and a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship.
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
