Crit Cross #12

A Forum on Art Criticism
Talk with Rosalyn D’Mello

Friday, 4. December, 6:30pm
ZOOM
In cooperation with Depot – Raum für Kunst und Diskussion

Like each December’s, this year’s last Crit Cross has an international guest. After great dialogues with Zarina Muhammad from The White Pube in 2018 and Stephanie Bailey from Ocula in 2019, we are excited to be able to have a conversation this year with Rosalyn D’Mello from STIR.

Rosalyn D’Mello is a feminist writer, editor, and art critic. She moved from India to South Tirol earlier this year and has been reporting on events in our vicinity for the India-based publication STIR ever since, adding a different voice to Austrian and Italian art criticism. We’ve been following her ambitious writings in the last few months – during which she asked timeless questions like «Do audiences matter to artists?» or «Can the artist speak?», developing personal answers and also offered valuable perspectives on shows we saw in Salzburg («Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller», Museum der Moderne), Graz («Paranoia TV», Steirischer Herbst) or Vienna («…of bread, wine, cars, security and peace», Kunsthalle Wien).

Please find below some of D’Mello’s writings as an introduction to her critical practice:

• The Freudian Glitch:
  https://www.stirworld.com/think-opinions-the-freudian-glitch
• Self-harm versus self-care, what does the art world enable? https://www.stirworld.com/think-opinions-self-harm-versus-self-care-what-does-the-art-world-enable
• Seeing a work of art in the age of coronavirus
  https://www.stirworld.com/think-opinions-seeing-a-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-coronavirus
• All of D’Mello’s texts for STIR can be accessed :
  https://www.stirworld.com/author-Rosalyn-D%60Mello
• For a longer piece of writing on her perspective, we recommend The empathy drink: reflections from a brown-eyed museum visitor.
  http://verein-k.net/wp/rosalyn-dmello_the-empathy-drink/?fbclid=IwAR1nWohJ1v0JDs9f7GuI_xtc5euhL-m65Hcb0016hMwTYcZtnlbxqzlP_8w

In order to socialize while keeping the necessary physical distance, we will use Zoom for our discussion, which will take place in English.