We are pleased to announce the publication/book “Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries” edited by Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski and Slavco Dimitrov which was generated as part of their curatorial work on the International summer school “Curating in Context” in the period of 2020-2022.

 

The book includes texts from exceptional writers – theorists, curators, artists as Danae Theodoridou, Florian Malzacher, Suzana Milevska, Amelia T. Jones, Anastasia Proshutinskaya, Jasmina Založnik, Rok Vevar, Kirsten Maar, Dominic Johnson and Voin de Voin.

 

The publication/book “Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries” in printed by Lokomotiva and shorty summaries the following:

In this publication editors wanted to interrelate the notion of the curatorial to a problem, or a situation, to time, space, conditions and processes of work, and to observe its transformation in those relations.

They are addressing the term as such and try to reflect it as “programming- dramaturgy – producing – organizing – presenting – exhibiting – reflecting or in its broadest sense, as a process of thinking and doing, and taking care of the context in which artwork is developed and appears.”

 

And as they would add:

“We opened by reflecting on curating and the curatorial (Irit Rogoff, Beatrice von Bismarck 2012, Maria Lind 2012, Paul O’Neill 2012) from the perspective of choreography and the performing arts, or as the “work of making constellation” (Von Bismarck 2014), both context-conditioned and conditioning. We also reflect on non-representative forms of curating as a political perspective, discussing and thinking about models of working together, production/organization, dissemination, new modes of instituting the curatorial and curatorial practices related to social justice, social movements, activism, gender and queer politics, self-organized initiatives, and struggles for new communal forms.

We were, and are here, contributing to the process of thinking different, multiple and critical perspectives on curating (performing) arts. Moreover, we want to look at intersections and productive entanglements and tensions between the curatorial and the performative, whereby the curatorial would no longer be understood as merely a display or presentation of artworks, but as an extended practice which strives to be in-process, durational, ephemeral, and which enables art to expand and go beyond white or black boxes, to discover, to research, to de-fetishize, to allow and enable the production and display of knowledge in many ways and directions, and to enact, bring forward and construct different and non-hegemonic imaginaries, worlds, bodies, sensoria and socialities.

By setting into focus the performative dimension of both the political and the curatorial/curating, we would like to tackle their relation with the performing arts and the performative in general, and vice versa, explore the political and critical potentials of performance arts and dance historically and today, in relation to feminist, queer, critical race studies and ecological discourses and practices.

This publication additionally reflects on the consequences and potentialities that emerge, when setting performative curating, the curatorial, the performative, political and performance arts as critical points at the center of one’s investigations.”

 

If you are interested in a PDF copy, please write us on: lokomotivaskopje2015@gmail.com

And if you are interested in printed version, please write lokomotivaskopje2015@gmail.com, so we can inform you further where printed version will be available.

 

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The publication is designed by Jana Acevska.

The publication is published by Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Skopje in collaboration with Б brain С store П project and Life Long Burning, supported by: Creative Europe Program of the European Union and the Министерство за култура / Ministria e Kulturës/ Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia.

 

Download the Publication below

“Curating in Context – Political and Performative Curatorial Imaginaries”

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