Natasha Conalnd is a Senior Curator of Global Contemporary Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She has over twenty years’ experience developing exhibitions of contemporary art, and has written for a number of contemporary art journals and catalogues in the Asia-Pacific region. She co-edited Reading Room, a peer-reviewed journal of contemporary art published annually by the E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery, 2006–18. She has a long interest in performance, art in public space and the dissemination of the historic avant-garde.