Breaking Out of Dominant Temporalities: Demodernizing the Museum?
Demodernizing is not a return to the pre-modern past, but an attempt to release new potentialities within modern cultural practices by taking modern ideology out of them.
By Charles Esche and Hélène Valance
Outsideness, and Other Words of Advice for Young Curators
The problem, especially for emerging curators, should not be how to get inside the sphere and sensibility of rote privilege and power in the art world and exhibition-making, but how to stay out of them.
By Niels Van Tomme
Poor Space
In schematizing the poor space, the intention is to envision it as a locus of disobedience, ambiguous as well as potentially ambivalent, performing non-totalizing gestures in place of the authoritarian impulse.
By Steven Henry Madoff
Thoughts on Repair and Remediation
Remediation is not nostalgia, nor is it a utopian projection. It is work performed and actualized, always oriented toward the present and the possible futures that emerge from it.
By Daniela Zyman
Disagreeable Inquiries: Curating as Knowledge Work
Curating and art-making as knowledge practices seem to me to hold out the possibility of asking, “What is to be done?,” “What is to be known?,” and “What sense can be made here?”—and of asking these questions in the company of those already in disagreement with one another.
By Mick Wilson
An Enfolding: The Exhibitionary Complex and the Self
Two kinds of expansionism are at play in the curatorial: the regimes of dominant power as they filter into cultural institutions and curatorial practices and the inexhaustible practices of research and knowledge production for audiences toward their individual and collective intellectual and empathic expansion.
By Steven Henry Madoff
The Curatorial: From Epistemic Capacities to Curatorial Research
How does the curatorial investigate and constitute the world around us? How is knowledge articulated differently from the inherited disciplines and protocols of academia?
By Carolina Rito
Changing Concepts of Curatorial Enquiry: Care, Ethics, and Research
In today’s epistemic regime, we are no longer autonomous producers of knowledge but are forced to cede our sovereignty to processes of abstraction, quantification, and algorithmic regulation.
By Henk Slager