At least two decades into the ‘curatorial turn’, and after successive declarations about the ‘post-curatorial’, the ‘para-curatorial’ and the curator’s mutation into artist (or vice versa), the field we share as curators, researchers, activists and artists of different generations and different experiences continues to transform. While decolonial initiatives, eco-critical awareness and social justice claims may be foregrounded as never before, these sit alongside public sector cuts, unprecedented professional precarity and exhausting ‘culture wars’.
This conference, which took place in November 2024, provided an opportunity to share experiences, reflect and connect in a convivial atmosphere.
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At least two decades into the ‘curatorial turn’, and after successive declarations about the ‘post-curatorial’, the ‘para-curatorial’ and the curator’s mutation into artist (or vice versa), the field we share as curators, researchers, activists and artists of different generations and different experiences continues to transform. While decolonial initiatives, eco-critical awareness and social justice claims may be foregrounded as never before, these sit alongside public sector cuts, unprecedented professional precarity and exhausting ‘culture wars’.
This conference, which took place in November 2024, provided an opportunity to share experiences, reflect and connect in a convivial atmosphere.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Opening words from Martin Myrone, Jessica Wan, Cicely Robinson, Rhona Sword and Lauren Craig. These are followed by Drafts, a series of recitations from disabled and/or migrant curators that focus on the concept of ‘gut knowledge’, as a way of doing and thinking which relies on trust, intuition and flexibility (within a Disability social model) – evidencing how the curatorial in itself is neurodivergent. We then have a series of Rapid-Fire Presentations looking at co-production in regional art collections, reflections and findings from a community curation experiment, and access and authority in the arts in relation to podcasting.
Welcome
00:00Welcome from Martin Myrone (BAN Convenor), and BAN Conference Convening Committee members: Jessica Wan, Cicely Robinson, Rhona Sword and Lauren Craig
Drafts
09:33Drafts: Recitations delivered by Jade Foster (DASH)
Rapid-Fire Presentations
36:20Introduction to the Rapid-Fire Presentations
38:23Co-production in regional art collections: Sophie Hatchwell & Greg Salter (University of Birmingham)
44:02Whose gallery is it anyway? Reflections and Findings from a Community Curation Experiment: Ilaria Casini (Edinburgh Printmakers)
52:11Podcasting the Past: Audio, Access and Authority in the Arts: Jelena Sofronijevic (independent)
57:44Q&A
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