Cyana Madsen

Qualifications:

PhD (University of the Arts London, 2024) MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming (University of the Arts London, 2018, with distinction) BA Radio and Television Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2006)

Position:

Research Fellow

Email:

Cyana.Madsen@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Dr Cyana Madsen is a curator, cultural producer, and researcher exploring (im)material culture, biography, and narrative.

Madsen is co-founder of the experimental exhibition space, MADSEN SYLVESTER STUDIO in Ramsgate, Kent and her practice uses exhibition-making and (im)material culture research to examine how lived experience permeates worn clothing, how histories and narratives are documented and disseminated within and without institutions, and how the researcher acts as a potential interrupter of this biography. 

With a background in film and television production, commercial styling and costuming, Madsen’s expertise spans the development and delivery of fashion cultural programmes, research of brand histories and for contemporary projects, wearer and object biographies, multisensory exhibitions and events, ethical material and immaterial (including the use of AI) methods, curatorial and institutional bias and what she has termed “curatorial interruption”. Her practice translates histories into compelling and accessible narratives for contemporary audiences. 

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