Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines how the ideal of care within curatorial practice collides with the organisational and institutional demands that shape the production of contemporary art. Drawing on practice-led research and affect theory, the concept of ambivalence is introduced as an analytical tool for understanding the tensions that arise between curatorial care and organisational necessity. The article argues that such ambivalence constitutes a productive yet exhausting intersection within Global North art systems characterised by new public management and proposes the notion of the logistics of care as a strategy for developing a more realistic and sustainable curatorial practice. Through an analysis of current examples from ecological curating, it explores how the ethical and affective ideals of care both enable and constrain curatorial agency.
Author: Joachim Aagaard Friis
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225382576