“Curation as Research-Creation: Speculating on the Future of Art and Technology Festivals” presented by Blottiere, Wester and Jones

Symposium:

• ISEA2023: 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2023:  

• Museums – Curation (full papers)

• Curation as Research-Creation: Speculating on the Future of Art and Technology Festivals

• Symbiotic Organization

• Marek Blottiere
• Meaghan Wester
• Maurice Jones

Venue(s):

• Forum des Images, Paris, France

• 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.

Category:

• Paper