“Curation as Research-Creation: Speculating on the Future of Art and Technology Festivals” presented by Blottiere, Wester and Jones
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- Museums – Curation (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- Curation as Research-Creation: Speculating on the Future of Art and Technology Festivals
Presentation Subtheme:
- Symbiotic Organization
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Abstract:
This paper explores a renewed approach to curation as research-creation (CRC) through its practical application in the annual art and technology festival. CRC envisions a shift in curation from a care for objects to a care for the emerging social relations of the curatorial project in a shared quest of meaning making.
We set out with outlining the features of CRC as interdisciplinary, concerned with programmatic boundary objects, and centered around the unfolding event trajectory – the forms and methods that facilitate affective encounters. Following we outline how this approach to curation unfolds in practice through the case study of the Fest-Forward workshop series that speculates on the future of art and technology festivals.
Concluding we summarize how this workshop series showcases the potential of CRC’s shift of attention from a mere presentation of artworks towards the facilitation of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural encounters that enroll artists, curators, and audiences.
