Voice ≠ Speech
2026
2024
Voice ≠ Speech
Launch of BCC's open-access journal through Soul Choice Editions, bringing together scholarship, archival materials and critical writing.
Assembly Black Country: Black Box
A programme based in the Black Country (West Midlands, England) developed with a-n exploring access, disability justice, Black curatorial practice and infrastructure.
2022
2021
2020
Black Curators Collective Founded
A national collective and forum for Black women and non-binary curators across the UK. Emerging from conversations and organising between 2018 and 2020, the collective was initially developed under the name Womxn of Colour Curators Forum.
Meandering Networks, Mapping Nations
A major public programme presented as part of Glasgow International, with support from CCA Glasgow and the International Curators Forum.
Pace & Flow
An ongoing programme supporting research, bursaries and professional development.
Voice ≠ Speech takes as its founding proposition that voice and speech are not equivalent—that articulation exists in forms that exceed, precede and resist spoken language. Across art history, critical theory, curatorial practice and disability justice, the journal asks what becomes visible when fluent articulation, in speech or in writing, is privileged as the primary measure of legitimate knowledge.
As an international, diamond open-access journal, we welcome original scholarship, creative-critical writing, and archival material from researchers, curators, and practitioners at any career stage. All submissions for our upcoming issues undergo a rigorous peer-review process governed by our international Editorial Board, with no author-facing fees or paywalls.
Voice ≠ Speech reads submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions and enquiries: info@blackcuratorscollective.org
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Voice ≠ Speech: A Journal of Held Articulation and Critical Method
Published by Soul Choice Editions
An imprint of Black Curators Collective CIC
Stockton-on-Tees, United KingdomEdited by Jade Foster
Front and back cover of Issue 01 artworks by Jade Foster.
As a deliberate political choice, they have chosen not to share information about their works.
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© 2026 Black Curators Collective CIC and individual contributorsISSN 2979-8477 (Online)
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The Editorial Board advises on the journal's intellectual direction, supports peer review and advocates for the journal within their fields.
Dr Aparna Kumar
Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, UCL. Co‑Director of the Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Research on modern South Asian art, museum studies and postcolonial theory.
Dr Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo
Art historian and independent curator working across modern and contemporary art. Research on queer and trans cultural histories, exhibition histories and approaches to access, embodiment and care within art and visual culture. Curatorial advisor for In Minor Keys, 61st Biennale Arte 2026.Dr Kate Keohane
Career Development Fellow in Art History and Wellbeing, St Edmund Hall and the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Research on storytelling, ecology and collective practice. Co‑Director of Art Hx (Princeton University); co‑editor of Caribbean Eco‑Aesthetics.Kimaada Le Gendre
Chief Learning Officer, Queens Museum, New York, and Director, Suna Children’s Museum. Works at the intersection of museum education, equity and institutional change.Professor Marsha Pearce
British Academy Global Professor, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Scholar‑curator from the Caribbean focusing on Global Majority artists, museum transformation and Caribbean visual culture.Professor Omar Kholeif
Professor of Global Art Theory and Practice; Head of Curatorial Practice, Glasgow School of Art. Artist, author, and cultural historian researching errant lives; transcultural processes of narration, the diasporic imagination, and visual literacy. Author of Internet_Art (Phaidon) and imagine/otherwise (Sternberg Press); former Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.Professor Dorothy Price FBA
Executive Dean and Deputy Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art. Leading scholar in critical race art history and decolonial approaches. Editor of Art History; co-founder of the Centre for Black Humanities, University of Bristol.
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Jade Foster (they/them)
An art historian, curator and writer born and raised in Sandwell, UK, of Jamaican and St. Lucian heritage. Foster holds an MA in History of Art with Distinction from University College London (2023), where they were a Fer-Garb Scholar, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art with First Class Honours from the University of Derby (2017). They are currently undertaking a Cultural and Creative Leadership MBA at Teesside University. Foster is the founding Director of Black Curators Collective and Curator at Primary, Nottingham, UK where their programme has supported early UK institutional presentations for artists whose work has since entered major international museum and biennial contexts. Their curatorial and scholarly practice centres on art history, curatorial practice, disability and access, and the methodology of unhanding—a critical practice, developed from Édouard Glissant's concept of errantry, for approaching artworks that resist transparent legibility. Foster's writing has appeared in ArtReview, Art Monthly, Camera Austria International, Corridor8 and LUX Moving Image, and they have contributed the introductory essay to Maia Ruth Lee: Bondage Baggage (Radius Books, 2025), the artist's first monograph, featuring correspondence from Amanny Ahmad, Brook Hsu, Jimin Seo, Christine Sun Kim and Martine Syms. They have delivered keynote addresses, including at the British Art Network Annual Conference (Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), and have spoken at the Association for Art History Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge. Foster is a Patron of Nottingham Contemporary and a member of the Folk Exchange Steering Group at Compton Verney.