This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.
Social and ecological struggles for a different planetary culture based on care and respect for the dignity of life are reflected in contemporary curatorial practices that explore human and non-human interdependence. The prevalence of themes of care in curating is a response to a dual crisis: the crisis of social and ecological care that characterizes global politics and the professional crisis of curating under the pressures of the increasingly commercialized cultural landscape. Foregrounding that all beings depend on each other for life and survival, this book collects theoretical essays, methodological challenges and case studies from curators working in different global geographies to explore the range of ways in which curatorial labour is rendered as care.
Practising curators, activists and theorists situate curatorial labour in the context of today’s general care crisis. This volume answers to the call to more fully understand how their transformative work allows for imagining the future of bodily, social and environmental care and the ethics of interdependency differently.
Author(s): Elke Krasny, Lara Perry
Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 326
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Caring Curating
1 Curatorial Labour and Decolonial Feminism
2 Get Bodied: Inverting the Witch to Summon a New Commons
3 Care Beyond Curation: A Conversation with Lauren Craig
4 Transcultural Care and the Cultural Sector in the United Kingdom
5 Caring for ‘Range-ful’ Identities in the Work of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
6 Decolonial and Heritage Practices in the Context of Current Global Challenges: Quilombola Museology and Digital Technologies in Brazilian Community Museums
7 Caring Curating and Social Media
8 A Laboratory of Care – Active Micropolitics, Joyfulness, and Affectivity
9 Avtonomi Akadimia: Curating Becomes Curing
10 Care, Aftercare, and the Work of Transmission: Learning From Greenham Common
11 Caring for Mourning, Working With Loss: Curating, Listening and Attending to the Sacred in Peruvian Highlands and Forests
12 Care, Thought, Being: Curating With a Wounded Planet
PART II Curating Care
13 Curating Forms of Care in Art and Activism: A Roundtable
on Life Support
14 From Coping to Curious: Unlearning and Reimagining Curatorial Habits of Care
15 Care for Caregivers: Curating Against the Care Crisis
16 Cultivating Care Ethics and the Minor Gesture in Curatorial
17 ‘Do What You do Best and Outsource the Rest’ –
Curatorial Lessons within Cultures of Outsourcing
18 The Platform of Care: Collective Curatorial Modes of the n*a*i*l*s hacks*facts*fictions Platform
19 Curating Queer Nursing: The Performance Installation Partus Gyno Bitch Tits
20 Curating a Collective Body: A Non-Idealized Concept of Care
21 Spellbound: Witchcraft Activism as Caring Curatorial Practice
22 Curating Aliveness: Engaging With Ecologies
23 La escuela del buen vivir/The School of Good Life: Counteracting the Imperial Mode of Living
Index
