DESIRE LINES: Inventing Attentive, Disorganised and Posthuman Curatorial Models
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Kirkali, Deniz. 2025. DESIRE LINES: Inventing Attentive, Disorganised and Posthuman Curatorial Models. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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"DESIRE LINES: Inventing Attentive, Disorganised and Posthuman Curatorial Models" is a practice-based PhD dissertation that turns to the material human body to explore what the curatorial can learn from the molecular to create further desire lines. How can curatorial practices challenge existing structures of knowledge by claiming knowledge outside of the mind and present an openness to other-than-human possibilities? The study calls to be attentive towards existing collaborations with the other-than-human, particularly within the body, and open up to multiple entangled desire lines. It posits the gut as a methodological site of collaboration where non-human cells largely outnumber human cells. It argues that attentivity as such can provide a methodology for arriving at knowledges differently. The project frames friendship as a curatorial methodology and performs it in writing through embodied forms of writing and storytelling.
The dissertation presents two collaborative curatorial projects; Garp Sessions and Experimental Pedagogies. Garp Sessions, co-founded with artist Ayşe Idil Idil, is a summer research programme bringing together an international community of artists and thinkers in a fishing village, Babakale in Turkey. The programme prioritizes collective thinking and digesting through reading sessions, workshops, and collective meals. Experimental Pedagogies, conducted by the curatorial and research collective topsoil, co-founded with Sofia Villena Araya and Amelie Wedel, is a long-term research project which explores how we learn from various others, including the other-than-human. The methodology in practice is cultivating an openness for alterity and plurality; creating conditions for learning encounters to happen through disorganisation.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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curatorial, posthuman, disorganisation, collectivity, collaboration, desire, attentivity, topsoil, Garp Sessions |
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31 July 2025 |
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39370 |
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12 Aug 2025 10:23 |
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14 Aug 2025 12:40 |
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