CIRCUIT is proud to announce our 2024 Curator-at-large, Erin Robideaux Gleeson. Erin will curate CIRCUIT’s 2024 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions.
Erin is a curator, writer and educator based on Dakota lands of Mní Sóta Makhóčhe (Minnesota), or Lands Where Waters Reflect Clouds. She is currently Lecturer in Critical Theory and Curatorial Studies in the Art Department of the University of Minnesota (2020–) and Director and Curator of FD13 (2021–), a residency program focusing on liveness, most recently with Raven Chacon, Kablusiak, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pio Abad, Yee I-Lann, and Moe Satt. She is an Advisor at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
Erin’s current and recent projects include: DEATHPOWER, a group exhibition and publication, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, MN (2024); FREETIME (a film without a film), a public programme with Anocha Suwichakornpong, May Adadol Ingawanij and Pablo de Ocampo, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2023); Now You See It, Now You Don’t, a group exhibition with Eric-Paul Riege, Natalie Ball and Grace Rosario Perkins, Bockley Gallery, MN (2023); a poetry event with Sky Hopinka, Birchbark Books, MN (2023); Eulogy, a performance lecture at The New School, NYC (2022); and Comeback Kid, a solo exhibition with Nicolas Grafia, Silverlens, Manila (2022).
With a critical interest in the notion and practice of fieldwork, Erin co-founded with Vera Mey, FIELDS, a triennial gathering-residency rooted conceptually in the unknown and physically in Cambodia (2013). From 2011–2018, Erin was co-founding director and curator of SA SA BASSAC, a non-profit art center and reading room in Phnom Penh. She has been a curator in residence with Artspeak, Vancouver (2019), Villa Vassilief, Paris (2016), and Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2015), among others.
As a writer, Erin is Cambodia Desk Editor and contributing writer for Art Asia Pacific (2006–) and has published writing including with Mousse, Sternberg Press, Gwangju Biennale, Documenta, Urban Research (UR), and forthcoming with Southeast of Now and NANG magazine (2024).