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About
Me

Christa Dee is a freelance writer, researcher and emerging curator based in Johannesburg. Her focus is on arts practitioners and spaces in South Africa and is currently working towards expanding her network more intimately across the globe. With an Honours degree with distinction in Social Anthropology, her previous research revolved around Instagram and its uses for re-thinking urban imaginaries and mapping practices within Johannesburg. She is currently working towards her MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the University of the Witwatersrand. Expanding on her
interest in how city-ness is constructed, her MA research
seeks to explore the curatorial practices of small arts
organisations in Johannesburg to unpack their value and
role in city-making.

 

Christa held the position of Editor and Head Writer at the
online magazine Bubblegum Club in 2017 and 2018,
working to present alternative creative practices and build up emerging artists. She has also been involved in larger research- and content-based projects, such as interviewing and writing about Johannesburg's arts & culture practitioners for Stevenson Gallery and photographer Viviane Sassen. This work was published in the German publication Zeit Magazin in December 2017. In 2019 she worked for the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in the capacity of Content
Manager and wrote specific reports related to gaming and digital practice connected to the festival.


She developed her first independent curatorial project through the UNDERLINE projects show in 2019. The exhibition titled Prepossessing the Future demonstrated a desire to play with
concepts related to the devices and languages people use to negotiate their identity within temporal and spatial entanglements.


As a writer, Christa focuses on art, design, digital cultures, speculative futures, identity politics, urbanism, and the relationship between these categories. She currently writes for a number of arts & culture publications, including Bubblegum Club, ArtThrob, ARTSKOP 3437, FOAM Magazine, Contemporary And (C&).

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