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Social Justice and Work in Art Institutions
- Source: Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 10, Issue Social Justice, Oct 2021, p. 178 - 200
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- 05 Apr 2021
- 10 Sep 2021
- 01 Oct 2021
Abstract
Even though social justice struggles are often thematized in curatorial practice and discourse, their demands are rarely implemented in art-institutional policies and infrastructure. In investigating the anatomy of this conundrum, politically incisive redefinitions of institutional usership and participation, and analysis of their close relation to (issues of) work, would benefit strategies around diversity in the context of art-institutional participation. The theory of ‘instituent praxis’ and its insistence on inventive and cooperative rule-making can contribute to addressing curatorially absent/unjust regulation and its ensuing ethical/affective gaps in relation to under-represented or non-represented subjectivities or constituencies, such as ethnic minorities and displaced asylum seekers.