Chloe Carroll

I am a curator, writer and researcher based in London, working towards curatorial processes of decolonisation that deal with live materialities, modes of performativity and the reclamation of alternative knowledges. My dissertation work at the Royal College of Art, entitled 'In Pursuit of a Decolonial Materiality', examined modes of material disobedience in the work of Candice Lin and Otobong Nkanga.

Most recently I worked with Nottingham Contemporary to curate The Unexpected Beautiful Phrase, a day-long event considering the position of the fugitive learner as one who occupies a space of perpetual contradiction, simultaneously within and beyond the institution. Departing from Harney and Moten's 'The University and the Undercommons', we worked with artists, poets and thinkers to imagine performative responses, challenging the dominance and biases of institutional learning.

Central to my practice is an engagement with contemporary poetry and experimental literature, and a consideration of how literature may be further integrated into or supported by the curatorial.