Ben Borthwick is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern. He is curator of Latifa Echakhch: Speakers’ Corner (18 Sept-23 Nov, 2008) in Tate Modern’s Level 2 Gallery project space. He has curated exhibitions at Tate Modern including Gilbert & George, The Irresistible Force, Bill Fontana, Meschac Gaba and Illuminations and worked closely with artists such as Bruce Nauman and Doris Salcedo to realise their commissions in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. He is widely published on sound related aesthetics, and is a regular contributor to The Wire music magazine.
Cylena Simonds is an independent curator and writer engaging with the politics of representation and the representation of politics. She is particularly interested in moving image media, diasporic cultures and conditions of practice in developing countries. From 2004-2008 she was the Exhibitions Curator at Iniva, heading their on-site and touring exhibition programmes, as well as programming off-site public art projects. Working with emerging as well as mid-career artists, she has developed new commissions from Laylah Ali, Philomena Francis, Meschac Gaba, and Idris Khan in addition to presenting several UK premieres. Her latest project was States of Exchange: Artists from Cuba, which was the first exhibition of contemporary art from Cuba to be shown in the UK since 1997.
