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The discussion ranged widely exploring the following questions and issues:

- Curating
Why do you/why do we curate?
What goal(s) are you/we pursuing?
Do you understand curating as activism?
When does curating become a form of activism?
Is it possible to curate radically? And where?
What would be your understanding of the 'ideal' way of curating? How do we get there?
When is curatorial practice queer, or what is queer curating?
And when does curatorial practice become queer-feminist?
Why is it important for us to label, or categorize and define our curatorial practice accordingly?
What is the difference between queer curating and queering curating/curation, or when and how can curatorial practice be queered?
What role do representational politics and identity politics play in defining queer curating?
To what extent is the para-curatorial possibly queer because it refuses to take a fixed form?
And to what extent can the post-curatorial be called queer because it supposedly questions curation itself?

- Disruption/Intervention
When can artistic/curatorial practice disrupt entrenched forms, formats and infrastructures?
Whom can it disrupt and for what and why?
Radical disruption, "revolution" vs. recognition politics and revolution of and with small steps? Is there even a gentle way?
How should we curate if we want to disrupt common (infra)structures?
Who is ‘we’?
Is it worthwhile to intervene in existing institutions? If yes, why, if no, why not?
Do we want or should we (exploit or) change or abolish the institutional/institutions?
Should we disrupt/destroy existing structures or rather create new structures?
What structures and resources are needed to avoid burnout and trauma that can arise in the context of interventionist/activist curatorial work?
How can we be radically disruptive while still depending on recognition for our work?

- Instituting Otherwise
How deep and how far can we go in and with institutions? When can/should we take institutions seriously?
What are the formats that would take us further in an institutional critique?
Which infrastructures and organizational forms do we want?
What structures do we need?
How can we build new structures without reproducing the same things and mistakes?
What are the demands on or visions of an institution or infrastructure that is non-violent, caring and sustainable?
What connects the curatorial with current discourses around care?

-Commons/Commoning
How does curating create community?
What would/could be seen as a real commoning process within the curatorial field?

Keywords:

Feminist Curating, Queer Curating, Activist Curating, Curating and Care, Instituting Otherwise, Commons/Commoning

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33353

Date Deposited:

14 Apr 2023 09:51

Last Modified:

14 Apr 2023 09:51

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33353