Tonica Hunter

Tonica Hunter (BA, MSc) is a researcher, curator and DJ originally from London and based in Vienna since 2014. Since moving to Austria, she has built up a portfolio as a freelance independent curator for discourse, music/performance and visual arts. In her course ‘ars sciendi (the art of knowing)’ Tonica explores the queer art of failure and unknowing as well as foregrounding sensuous, marginalised, non-academic art/science knowledge. See tonicahunter.com for a detailed list of works.

Tonica has been teaching “ars sciendi (the art of knowing)” since the winter semester 2023/24.

Current Activities | 2024

fruit, seeds - exhibition, volkskundemuseum 18.04-04.05 : https://www.volkskundemuseum.at/fruit_seeds

guest lecture “from its Latin root “curare” to take care” at Kunst uni Graz for the Master Course “Masterstudium Musik- und Theatervermittlung”  on 02.05 - part of the Lehrveranstaltung “Kunst- undTheaterdiskurse (Diskriminierungskritik)” invited by Dr Sieglinde Roth.

“*endlich ein wokes thema*“ curation of two part side programme at Burgtheater - 16.05 “*and there are many more stories to tell*“  and 15.06 “European art music and the Black contemporary” - the side programme is for the first Black female directed- and BIPOC cast only play at the Burgtheater: Cypressenburg.

*upcoming*

mumok reopening - curator of musical programme “nothing new under the sun” with artists such as Miriam Adefris, Tmnit Ghide, Jarrod Carranto as part of the new exhibition “Avant-Garde and Liberation. Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernity” opening 06.06 (website link to come)

guest lecture and workshop for the course “Kuratieren in den szenischen Künsten” an der Universität Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und der FU Berlin. 06.07. invited by BA. MA. Gwendolin Lehnerer.