John Kenneth Paranada is a London and Manila based curator, writer and theorist working to develop critical cultural forms and open, experimental projects. Kenneth holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (2016) an MAS in Contemporary Art at the Zurich University of the Arts (2015) and an MA in Museum Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His interdisciplinary practice is focused on experimental South East Asian Queer Futures, Queering the Anthropocene, and Accelerationist Technologies. Kenneth has worked with art galleries and off spaces including the kamel mennour gallery London, Pi Artworks London, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Chalton Gallery, London, Bãrengasse Museum Zürich, knoerle & baëtting contemporary, Ládron Galleria Mexico, Leroy Neiman Art Centre, New York, and Node Centre for Curatorial Studies Berlin among others. He was awarded the exceptional talent visa in the UK in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw Ledesma Award for Art Criticism in Manila in 2017, and was selected curator for the Asia-Europe Foundation in 2015. He co-runs a collective called Never Ripe / Never Rotten (n/R) with Francesca Altamura and Helena Lugo.