> How can curators and art-activists help facilitate a more inclusive
dialogue?
Thanks, Ele.
Preventing political correctness would be a first step. Art needs
autonomous space to question. The last thing we need is to treat the
museum/gallery/exhibition space as a 'megaphone' for political
campaigns. There are much better, and effective other channels if you
want to reach audiences with your message. So, the dialogue would be
used to create common ground for experimentation.
What is needed is an open aesthetics to overcome the current visual
poverty of activist messages. By that I mean a tradition in which new
programs and languages are being created while the current practices
are being investigated. What we need are more temporary labs where
networked, audio-visual vocabularies can be developed. This is where
curators and activists can meet as such endeavour can be in the
interest of both.
Geert
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