Beyond the Turn and Towards the Event: Analyzing the Curatorial as a Material-discursive Practice
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- ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Matters Mattering: Collective Interactions and Play [cont.]
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- Beyond the Turn and Towards the Event: Analyzing the Curatorial as a Material-discursive Practice
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Abstract:
This paper discusses the processual ontological transitions of the curatorial after Paul O’Neil’s “curatorial turn”. Studying the curatorial from its discursive conception to a new materialist approach, it explores what can change when the curatorial is considered both a discourse and a practice, with no hierarchical distinctions or separations between them. To envisage the curatorial as a material-discursive practice is to admit that matter and meaning emerge together and one does not exist in the same way in the absence of the other. In this epistemology, the question changes from what the curatorial is to what the curatorial does, considering it as a mode of production of different kinds of knowledges.
