Gayatri Uppal

Gayatri Uppal was the Project Manager for the VisionMix Artists, Filmmakers and Curators' Workshop, 2015. She is an independent arts manager, researcher and curator. She was co-curator of programs and residencies at Khoj International Artists' Association, an independent art space promoting intercultural understanding through experimentation and exchange (2009-2012). Her recent curatorial work includes 'Spaces Inbetween: The Truth about Fiction and the Fiction about Truth', an artists' films program curated for Khoj International Artists' Association at the Edinburgh Art Festival, 2014. Gayatri graduated with the MA in Contemporary Art Theory (2013), from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her final dissertation explored the political aesthetic practice of filmmakers and visual artists in South Asia. By researching different manifestations of moving- image practices emerging during political and social crisis, she probed the evolution, expansion and inclusion of documentary and film practices in contemporary visual art and culture. She participated in the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course 2014 led by Ruth Noack.