Susie Quillinan
Head of MASTERS STUDIES
Susie Quillinan is the Head of Masters Studies at Transart Institute, as well as a learner and curatorial researcher based in Lima, Peru. She develops publications, residencies, encuentros, exhibitions and study programming interdependently with artists, curators, researchers, collectives, places, institutions and other learners. Her current research focuses on practices of collective reading and study, weaving as methodology and a curatorial ethics of accompaniment.
Susie is currently co-director of HAWAPI, an arts organization based in Peru. HAWAPI develops encuentros for multidisciplinary artists in politically complex territories in order to conduct research and develop interventions in public space. By bringing artists into dialogue with communities, environments and contexts beyond the circuits of contemporary art, HAWAPI seeks to encourage participants to grapple with the complexities of place, in order to better understand the interdependence of critical local, regional and global issues. From informal gold mining settlements in the Amazon, to land rights struggles, disputed territories and the impacts of climate change, HAWAPI's primary mission is to challenge artists to deepen their engagement with the nature of how they approach work related to sites of conflict or struggle in order to develop more nuanced public conversations around issues impacting communities beyond major urban centers.
Susie also runs sala de lectura (Lima, Peru), a community reading room and platform for collective reading practices, with a focus on art, education and the curatorial. She is currently a candidate in the PhD - Curatorial Practice program at MADA, Monash University (Australia) and has developed curatorial programming, editorial projects and study programs in Lima, New York, Berlin, Melbourne, Bogotá and Mexico City.