Dani Admiss
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Name
Dani Admiss
Job title
Independent curator and researcher
About
Dr Dani Admiss (she/her) is a British-Assyrian Iranian independent curator and researcher based in Edinburgh. She uses social practices to develop projects with everyday communities to voice their stories and reimagine narratives of science and technology. In 2020 she founded Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline, an art, community learning and climate justice project exploring just transition in the arts. With a coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers, she has co-created a holistic decarbonisation plan for art workers. She is currently developing a waste recovery and well-being project, Sunlight Liberation Network. Admiss has curated projects and published across the UK, Europe and internationally. She is an Artangel Making Time resident (2023) and was a Stanley Picker Fellow (2020). She has curated numerous exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and edited books, in the UK, the EU and internationally. She wrote her PhD in Curatorial Practice and World-Making with an AHRC grant and is a visiting tutor in Design Research at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Region
Midlothian