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Kirsty Robertson

Kirsty Robertson is professor of contemporary art and director of museum and curatorial studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating. She has published widely on activism, visual culture and museums, culminating in her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture (2019). Her new work focuses on small and micro-collections that repurpose traditional museum formats for critical and politically radical projects. She is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists and cultural researchers working on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes Region and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils, an ongoing ‘vernacular museum’ that responds curatorially to ecological crisis.

Contact: Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, ON, N5A 3B7, Canada.