TERMINAL - RCA Graduate's Show

Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner st, London Sun 27 - Wed 30 June
photo credits: © Rita Silva

Role: Co-curator and Coordinator

Terminal is not where; it’s when. It unpacks the broader questions when brought on. When everything is unmoving, uncertain and unprecedented, how do we change, what's essential?

Terminal brought together the work of over 50 students produced during (and in response to) isolation. Based around "survival essentials", our curatorial concept set out to unpack the students’ experience of spending 18 months in a terminal-like space, and seeing it as a prolific period in critical thinking and making. Visitors were invited to join this speculative space spread across nine exhibition Zones: Arrivals, Customs, Vestibule, Bus Stop, Declarations (Preview only), Waiting Room (Library), Round Table, Control Room and Duty-Free.

Terminal featured a programme of live performances, installations, moving image, sonic-work and expanded publishing, whilst also dialogic events such as workshops, experimental seminars and poetry sessions. In addition, Visual Communication’s experimental Export Radio station transmitted soundbites from the event online.


Curatorial essay: Co-written with Maya Gulieva
poster by Rocco Punghellini and William Jacobson

In Collaboration with:

Maya Gulieva: Co-curator, coordinator
Konstantina Benaki-Chatzispasou: Coordinator, catalogue
Carmo Pinheiro de Melo: Coordinator
Rocco Punghellini: Visual Identity
William Jacobson: Visual Identity
Nayonika Ghosh: Visual Identity
Dougal Verinder Gedge: Visual Identity
Myrna Marianovits: Architecture
Daniel Johns: Architecture
Camille Le Flem: Catalogue
Amir Saidani: Catalogue
Costas Kalogeropoulos: Catalogue
Meli Berney: Production
Anastasia Arjalies: Production
Toby Mao: Production
Felix Bayley-Higgins: Events
Jonny Drewek: Events
Wing Shan Wong (Pat): PR
Kristina Kapeljuh: PR
Elena Galofaro: PR
Claudia Battisti: PR
Leonidas Anagnostou: PR Copy
Kelly MacBeth Mackay: PR Copy