How museums and curators engage with different cultural perspectives was the focus of a lecture delivered by Kristina Dziedzic Wright at Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway, on October 6, 2026.
Wright, the Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture, Performance Studies, and Critical Humanities at The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (GSU), presented “Transcultural Perspectives on Museums and Art Curation in the Global Contemporary.”
The lecture included her ongoing work at GSU with “walkshopping,” a creative research method and pedagogical tool that activates all the senses to move through the built environment as experiential knowledge. She uses this method in both MA and Ph.D. courses at GSU as a form of critical heritage cartography to understand Sharjah’s historic art and heritage area through embodied perception.
The work connects with Wright’s broader research into how art and curatorial practice shape understandings of cultural identity, migration, and belonging. Her research has examined artistic exchange between Africa and Asia, including comparative studies in Nairobi and Seoul.
During her fellowship at The Africa Institute, Wright is developing research through participatory exhibitions and co-created art workshops. She also teaches graduate courses in museum and heritage studies at GSU.
Wright holds a Ph.D. in Museum, Gallery, and Heritage Studies from the University of Leicester and is the author of Transcultural Exchange through Art: Encountering Otherness in South Korea and Kenya (Routledge 2026).
