Guest Editor

A brown-skinned middle-aged woman with black curly hair sits in front of some plants and bookshelves. She is wearing a gold necklace that reads Taraneh in Farsi, a textured white sweater, and a black skirt.

Taraneh Fazeli

(she/they)•Detroit, MI and New York, NY

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Taraneh Fazeli is a curator. Her father is from Tehran, her mother from New York, and her work is rooted in the overlap of the various diasporic, disability, queer, organizing, and creative communities she calls home. In the first half of her career, she explored the intersection of arts publishing and programming with online media at Artforum, e-flux, Triple Canopy, and the New Museum. Since becoming what Okwui Enwezor called an “untethered curator” in 2015, she’s committed to utilizing a spectrum of accessible technologies, including digital, social, and ancestral tools at organizations like No Longer Empty, Poetic Societies, and DisArts. With Cannach MacBride, she is co-editing a field guide rooted in her peripatetic group exhibition Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying, which addressed the politics of disability, health, race, and care (2016–20). A Detroit-based BIPOC healing and disability justice creative collective she co-founded, Relentless Bodies, co-organized a section.