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Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2045-5836
  • E-ISSN: 2045-5844

Abstract

This article elaborates a theory of slo curating as a durational practice and methodology. It interrogates concepts such as provenance, chain of relation, collections and conservation that it establishes are part of a colonial episteme undergirding the museum and its exhibitionary practices. Starting from recent digitization projects of museum collections, I analyse artist-led curatorial projects, legal cases and requests for restitution by colonized and Indigenous peoples across the world that challenge long-standing imperial concepts that inform museum studies. Projects by the Rapa Nui, Iqbal Geoffrey, Julie Tolentino, Constantina Zavitsanos and سراب/Saraab (Shahana Rajani and Omer Wasim) are discussed alongside (2008–ongoing) and (2012–ongoing), foregrounding their alternative theoretical approaches to archives, access, labour, temporality and borders. Slo curating offers a set of curatorial practices and methods that are at the service of people instead of institutions.

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Slo Curating: Restitution, Archives, Access and Care
Journal of Curatorial Studies 11, 208 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00070_1
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Keyword(s): alternative temporalities; curating and care; Exhibition Without Objects; museums and decolonization; online exhibitions; slo curating; tenderness kit

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