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 characterizes global politics and the
professional crisis of curating under the pressures of the
increasingly commercialized 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 to 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
9781000842609
Publisert
2023
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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