Curating with Care

Name: Curating with Care
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032069913
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Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

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Curating with Care explores the concept of 'curating care' through reflections from over 20 contributors, emphasising the importance of care for all life within contemporary curatorial practice. The book addresses the social, ecological, and political dimensions of caregiving in curatorial work, highlighting the interdependence of human and non-human life. Featuring theoretical essays, methodological discussions, and case studies from diverse global contexts, it delves into the dual crises of social/ecological care and the pressures of commercialisation in the cultural sector. This collection seeks to reimagine curatorial labour as an act of care that fosters respect, ethics, and a more compassionate future.
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This volume is essential for practising curators, cultural activists, theorists, and students interested in curatorial studies, environmental humanities, and social justice. It will particularly appeal to those seeking to understand or engage in ethical, ecological, and socially responsive curatorial practices.

This book presents over twenty authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life, and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.

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This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on curating care – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.

Social and ecological struggles for a different planetary culture based on care and respect for the dignity of life are reflected in contemporary curatorial practices that explore human and non-human interdependence. The prevalence of themes of care in curating is a response to a dual crisis: the crisis of social and ecological care that characterises global politics and the professional crisis of curating under the pressures of the increasingly commercialised cultural landscape. Foregrounding that all beings depend on each other for life and survival, this book collects theoretical essays, methodological challenges and case studies from curators working in different global geographies to explore the range of ways in which curatorial labour is rendered as care.

Practising curators, activists and theorists situate curatorial labour in the context of today’s general care crisis. This volume answers the call to more fully understand how their transformative work allows for imagining the future of bodily, social and environmental care and the ethics of interdependency differently.

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ISBN: 9781032069913

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Elke Krasny
Edited by Lara Perry

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 308

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About the Author

Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator and author. Krasny’s scholarship addresses care, ecological and social justice, memory work and emancipatory cultural practice at the present historical conjuncture marked by ecocidal and genocidal pasts. Her exhibition Hands-On Urbanism: The Right to Green on urban gardening and farming as subsistence practices was included in the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, curated with Angelika Fitz at the Architecture Centre Vienna in 2019, introduces a perspective of planetary care ethics through architectural practice. Krasny co-edited Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge, 2023).

Lara Perry works in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton. Trained first as a historian, Lara’s career has involved her in work with artists, curators, photographers, educators, computer scientists, philosophers, archivists, activists and art historians. Much of her research has focused on evolving feminist museology, starting with her doctoral thesis on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London) published as History’s Beauties: Women, History and the National Portrait Gallery 1856–1900 in 2006. Lara has published a number of essays and edited volumes concerning art history's and curating's relationship to gender and feminism, most recently, an edited volume with Elke Krasny Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge, 2023).

Curating with Care