JADE BARGET
I am a curator and culture worker based between Berlin and Paris with an interest in screen and moving image cultures.
In June 2022, I presented Fatal & Fallen at bi’bak’s sinema transtopia, a touring programme co-curated by XING featuring 1970-80s East Asian exploitation films focusing on female revenge. In April 2022, with Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, I co-curated a programme of screenings and performative screenings for Berlin’s Gorki theatre around the phenomenon of fog.
In previous years, I curated programmes for Singapore’s Asian Film Archive; Palazzo Re Rebaudengo and
I have written on Wu Tsang for The White Review; Tarek Lakhrissi for Art Monthly,
Eric Duvivier
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Sung Tieu
Christelle Oyiri
Kareem Lotfy
Julian Abraham Togar and Grace Samboh
Michele Rizzo
Justin F. Kennedy, Jeremy Shaw, Juan Pablo Camara and Nile Koetting
In 2020, I graduated from the Curating Contemporary Art department at London’s Royal College of Art and was laureate of the 2020 JEUNES COMMISSAIRES (Young Curator) research bursary from the Institut français. I was a 2021 curator in residence at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and 2021-22 curator in residence at the Cité International des Arts, Paris.
Together with Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, I co-run XING, a research and curatorial platform centered on visual cuture stemming from East Asia, Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Follow us here: @xingarchives @xingpresents