Toleen Touq & Diana Campbell Betancourt

Toleen Touq is one of the organizers of SPRING SESSIONS – a multidisciplinary learning and residency programme based in Amman. Furthermore she is co-initiator of the cross-disciplinary platform “The River Has Two Banks”, operating between Jordan and Palestine. In her presentation at the conference she will speak about the Spring Sessions as a possibility for site-responsive education.

The American curator Diana Campbell Betancourt is based in Mumbai and has been working across South Asia for the last six years. She is the Artistic Director of the SAMDANI ART FOUNDATION in Dhaka and the Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit for the 2014, 2016, and 2018 editions, which has established itself in the five years since its inception as a pioneering, non-commercial research and exhibition platform for contemporary South Asian art.

In this interview Betancourt speaks about the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India as a non-commercial platform for art and the importance of it.