{"product_id":"uncurating-sound-by-dr-salome-voegelin-9781501345401","title":"Uncurating Sound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncurating Sound\u003c\/i\u003e performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment’s desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes from curation the notion of care and thinks it through purposeful inefficiency as resistance: going sideways and another way. Thus, it moves curation through the double negative of not not to “uncuration”: untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking at Kara Walker’s work, the book invites the performance of the curatorial via indivisible connections and processes. Reading Kathy Acker and Adrian Piper, it speculates on how the body brings us to knowledge beyond the ordinary. Playing Kate Carr and Ellen Fullman, it re-examines Modernism’s colonial ideology and materialises the vibrational presence of a plural sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListening to Marguerite Humeau and Manon de Boer, it avoids theory but agitates a direct knowing from voice and hands, and feet and ears that disorder hegemonic knowledge strands in favour of local, tacit, feminist and contingent knowledges that demand, like Zanele Muholi’s photographs, an ethical engagement with the work\/world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601050845420,"sku":"9781501345401","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501345401-uncurating-sound.jpg?v=1777994359","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/uncurating-sound-by-dr-salome-voegelin-9781501345401","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}