Tate Encounters

Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa and Victoria Walsh interview Paul Goodwin, Curator: Cross-Cultural Programmes, Tate Britain (22 February 2011)

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Paul Goodwin was Curator: Cross-cultural Programmes, in the Learning Department of Tate Britain from 2007-2010. In this role he created platforms for cultural engagement by programming talks, symposia, workshops and live art events working with artists including Raimi Gbadamosi and is currently working in the Curatorial Department of Tate Britain. He is co-editor of Under-construction (DG Artes, 2009) an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between shanty towns and the central city in Lisbon, Portugal and curator of the Under-construction exhibition in Lisbon in May 2009. Paul worked as a consultant curator for Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at Tate Liverpool, 2010.

  • What was your understanding of the role and aims of Curator Cross Cultural and how did you approach these?
  • What relationship did your programme have with aesthetic and wider cultural and political debates around multiculturalism? Cultural diversity policy?
  • How do you think these contexts have changed since you started in 2007 and today?
  • What was your understanding and interaction with Tate Encounters? What do you see as the opportunities and limits of Tate Encounters?
  • What would you like to think your legacy at Tate Britain is and what impact do you think Tate Britain had on you?