Curating the Social
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752). This special issue belongs to the section "Visual Arts".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2021) | Viewed by 3726
Special Issue Editors
Interests: socially engaged art; co-production; collaborative and participatory practice; alternative economies; self organised and DIY culture; postcapitalism; postwork futures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last decade has seen an expansion of the “social turn” in art, evidenced by the prevalence of terms such as “participatory”, “situated” and, particularly in the UK, “socially engaged” art within academic and professional discourses. This has been accompanied by discussions about the curation of such practices in terms of their display and (re)contextualisation within institutional settings, and the tensions this can provoke. However, less attention has been paid to the mechanisms through which social art is produced or to the roles and responsibilities of curators within what Irit Rogoff termed the “expanded field” of art production.
This Special Issue seeks to redress the balance by giving critical attention to the notion of curating as a social practice. By focusing upon the specific geographical and cultural contexts in which social art occurs, it will explore how curating provides the conditions and support through which such work can happen. For example, if the role of art is to provoke new understandings and experiences of the world, in what ways does curating mediate and manage the risks posed by such disruption, particularly when working in precarious or fragile places? What dynamics inform the relationships between artist, curator and the recipients/co-producers of the art, and how is authorship attributed? To what extent do such practices replicate or extend traditional modes of curating, particularly in terms of care, conservation and cultural gatekeeping, and in what ways do they differ? Moreover, what scope is there to understand curating as a collective practice, which encompasses distinct and overlapping creative, educational, logistical and administrative roles within the production of social art?
Dr. Andy Abbott
Dr. Elaine Speight
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- curating
- social practice
- participatory art
- socially engaged art
- place-specific art
- durational practice
- situated art
