Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: To associate the words “activism” and “curating” in the same sentence may seem an oxymoron, as in: curating activism, curating from an activist perspective, curating as activism, curatorial activism, and so on. This is the case if we consider, on the one hand, activism as an act capable of exceeding the limits of representative politics and transposing conflicts into the public sphere; and on the other, curatorial practice as a highly institutionalised activity that aims at guiding the viewe...
Source: Critique d’art
Author: Juan Albarrán Diego
Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aalto University
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2903589997