27 February 2021
Online
Nicholas Tammens
&
Francesco Tenaglia
In the first episode of the new series Praxis — art, ideas and communities for Almanac Talks, Francesco Tenaglia is in conversation with curator Nicholas Tammens.
Nicholas Tammens (b. Australia) is the Assistant Curator at Kunstverein Hamburg. He is also founder of 1856, a curated program of exhibitions and events at a workers’ union parliament in Melbourne, Australia which focuses on conditions of labour and cultural production. He has produced exhibitions with artists such as Jef Geys, Yale Union (2018), Patricia L. Boyd, 1856 (2018), Fred Lonidier, 1856 (2017), and B. Wurtz (2015); presented talks at Wiels, Brussels (2019), and Kunsthalle Zurich (2019).
Almanac Talks: Praxis — art, ideas and communities is a series of podcast episodes organised and hosted by art critic and curator Francesco Tenaglia which explores curatorial and artistic practices focused not only on exhibition making, but also on public programs, workshops, reading groups, civic activism and other forms of community engagement, as well as emerging theoretical and sociopolitical issues.
Listen to the previous series of podcast episodes here.
Almanac Inn is supported by Fondazione CRT and Compagnia di San Paolo. 
