Our Curatorial Board
I am a French-Tunisian director of photography. I started my career in France and in England by doing an internship on "Star Wars episod one", and then became an assistant director alongside renowned directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Cédric Klapisch, Sophie Marceau, David Mackenzie or Deepa Metha. My skills quickly led me to practice my profession at an international level, working on auteur projects as well as blockbusters in Africa, Europe, Asia or South America.
I am a writer, researcher and teacher. I am professor at the Toulouse Business School in Barcelona. My work addresses themes of unstable boundaries (professional, corporate, boardroom) questioning transparency as a moral imperative and a notion of fundamental dominant thinking of an unmitigated hegemonic capitalist system. My experience in investigation, animation and cultural management led me to develop recently Unir.proyecto, a citizen platform of debates, meetings and collaborative projects, focusing on current issues in the social, economic and cultural fields. Besides academic research, I write texts and poetry.
I am a Professor and Chair of Accounting, Sustainability and Governance at the University of Edinburgh Business School. I trained as a medical doctor in Iran and also hold an MBA and a PhD in Management. My research is broadly in the genealogy of ideas and the sociology of quantification in transnational governance. I currently study the construction and use of calculative devices, such as rankings and ratings, in regulatory regimes. My other line of inquiry is at the crossroads of artistic and knowledge work. By studying the process of artistic creation with an epistemological/ontological lens I aim to breach the frontier between academic and artistic modes of inquiry.
WAFA KHLIF
AFSHIN MEHRPOUYA
LILIA SELLAMI
I'm a Professor of Accounting. I hold a Chair in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh Business School and I'm co-editor-in-chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting. My research examines the economic, political and social impact of accounting. I'm currently working on a projects concerned with financial innovation in the charitable sector, pharmaceutical companies, prisons and neoliberal governance.
I’m an academic and activist. I work as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School. I gained myPhD at the London School of Economics. Before that, I spent three years living in London, Ontario, where I got to know Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner; it was also a time when my interest in the intersection of art, culture and political activism came together.
I’m an associate professor of accounting at the LSE. I Studied Sociology at the Universität Bielefeld and Accounting and Sociology at the LSE and Political Science. I’m actually working on the quantification of decency. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of the multifaceted relations formed between instruments of quantification, economy and morality, and the roles of rating, ranking and performance measurement in mediating between conflicting values and rationalities.
CHRISTINE COOPER
SAMER ABDELNOUR
ANDREA MENNICKEN
I am a marketing professor and researcher at IHEC Carthage, an art collector, and the founder of La Boîte, established in 2007. La Boîte is a structure dedicated to the support, dissemination, and mediation of art and architecture in Tunisia. In 2019, I co-founded and directed the Art Video section of Gabès Cinéma Fen, a festival focused on the moving image, based in Gabès, Tunisia, featuring programming in Cinema, Video Art, and Virtual Reality (VR).
I served on several visual arts juries, including the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC), the African Culture Fund (ACF), Al Mawred Al Thaqafy, and the Rambourg Prize. She is a board member of the African Culture Fund and Ennejma Ezzahra - Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes (CMAM).
FATMA KILANI
VINCENT GOUTAL
I am the director and co-founder of Goutal Gallery in Aix-en-Provence.Responsibility for managing the gallery team in France and abroad, taking care of communication, forging partnerships (museums, sponsorship). Teaching also at all levels of higher education. Former student of ENS ULM, agrégé in physical sciences, member of the jury of competitive examinations for major schools (ENSAM, Mines-Ponts, CCINP, etc.).Trained in Economics and Visual Arts (with Chris Killip) at Harvard University, I'm a passionate cultural entrepreneur and higher education teacher.
I work with hybrid moving image and photographic processes to create an ‘analogue uncanny’ where the materials of my work create narrative layers. The worlds I create are permeated by hauntings, spectres and memories: scenes emerging from chemical alchemy, lenses made from natural materials and antique glass, archive cut and collaged onto itself to create new compositions; my methods capture memories inherent in the molecular structure materials my uses, capturing light, time and emotion. My work has been shown widely in exhibitions and events in the UK and worldwide including at the Barbican, Tate Exchange, Adelaide Festival Centre, By Art Matters China, Fermynwoods Contemporary, Milton Keynes Art Centre, and Maysles Centre New York.
SAPPHIRE GOSS
