Summary: In this episode Ashar interviews Dr. Kirsty Robertson, Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art and Sustainability at Western University. They discuss Kirsty’s curatorial practice, and her work with the Synthetic Collective, and establishing the Center for Sustainable Curating. Kirsty shares insights on the future of museum practices and sustainability, her research on synthetic textiles, and the need for a shift in how we perceive and handle plastics.
Bio: Dr. Kirsty Robertson is Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability and Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC). Robertson has published widely on activism, visual culture and museums, culminating in her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019). Robertson is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists and cultural researchers working on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes Region and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils, an ongoing “vernacular museum” that responds curatorially to ecological crisis.
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