Publication details
Kurátorský výzkum jako nedisciplinovaná a znepokojivá forma poznání
| Title in English | Curatorial Research as an Undisciplined and Unsettling Form of Knowledge |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny |
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| web | https://vvp.avu.cz/sesit/sesit-37/ |
| Keywords | curatorial research; ecological art; extractivism |
| Description | The aim of the text is to show that curatorial research is a legitimate way to find answers to complex socio-economic and environmental questions, using the example of a two-year process of creating an exhibition project referring to the issue of planned lithium mining in the Ore Mountains. The text argues that a research exhibition is as relevant a contribution to scholarly debate as an academic article or publication. However, it differs in the sense that its format is not simply a presentation of results, but rather a spatial framing in which the research hypothesis is tested or verified. This hypothesis then does not necessarily stand at the beginning of the research, it emerges gradually in a material that has its own agency. The joint text of the curatorial collective presents what kinds of agency lithium plays out and how this particular mineral determines the form of the research that led to the exhibition Symptoms of the Future (Ústí nad Labem: Galerie Hraničář, 2024). |