Walking & Talking with Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence Rinder’s thoughtful exchange with Bige Örer weaves through reflections on working across different geographies and institutional contexts, the complexities and freedoms of curating independently versus within institutions, and their shared passions for art, poetry, walking, and animals.
By Lawrence Rinder with Bige Örer
On Curating the Art of the Learning-Disabled and Neurodiverse: A Manifesto
While works by these artists are slowly entering the mainstream, greater efforts must be made to create inclusivity around the critical and curatorial discourse that enlivens and secures the place of this art now and for posterity.
By Andrew Hunt
Assembly Theory and Its Adaptation for Curating
Here is ChatGPT’s description of Assembly Theory, a concept created by the physicist Sara Walker and the chemist Leroy Cronin. ChatGPT was then prompted to adapt its summary of Assembly Theory to the practice of curating.
By ChatGPT 5 Pro
Walking & Talking with Anne Barlow
Curator Anne Barlow reflects on artist-centered, internationally attuned, and socially responsive curating.
By Anne Barlow with Bige Örer
Not Foreign Enough: Revisiting the 2024 Venice Biennale
A year after the Biennale’s latest edition, the philosophical and curatorial questions of Otherness and difference implicit in Artistic Director Adriano Pedrosa’s title, Foreigners Everywhere, feel all the more pressing to address.
By Abbas A Malakar
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
Of Snakes and Mirrors
What if nature, transfigured by a mirror, redirected its gaze at us, human beasts?
By Bernardo José de Souza
Exhibition / Exhibitionary
Exhibitions have changed their approach and function over time. They have not only reacted against the idea of a prescribed political or natural order of display, but they also have questioned their space as a privileged site of capitalist forms of representation.
By Multiple authors
Walking & Talking with Jacqueline E. Burckhardt
Curator Jacqueline E. Burckhardt discusses the idea of “writing” and how La mia commedia dell’arte, her 2022 publication, reveals her multifaceted approach to engaging with art.
By Jacqueline E. Burckhardt with Bige Örer
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
Walking & Talking with Théo-Mario Coppola
Curator Théo-Mario Coppola, based in Paris, addresses the notion of “the commons” and how the arts ecosystem can be reimagined with principles of equality, fairness, and transformation.
By Théo-Mario Coppola with Bige Örer
World Questions—For Contemporary Curatorial Education
What forms should curatorial studies take at a time of “intermission” for contemporary art and for “broader cultural and political realities” today—indeed, for “human history at this moment”?
By Terry Smith
Walking & Talking with Alia Swastika
Alia Swastika, a curator, writer, and researcher based in Yogyakarta, speaks about the axis of decoloniality and feminism at the heart of her practice.
By Alia Swastika with Bige Örer
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
At the Edge of Ailey
While the exhibition offers a dizzying spectacle and aims to transcend disciplinary borders, it remains rooted in largely static visual art forms—ironic for a show dedicated to a master of movement.
By Tom Koren
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
Digital Art as Intangible Heritage: A Shifting Cultural Landscape
Over the years, museums and institutions across the globe have set up protocols and experimented with how to engage with digital culture, from presentation to preservation and collecting. Here are some thoughts on the potential future directions of digital culture.
By Amira Gad