{"id":1110,"date":"2018-04-11T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/?post_type=whats-on&p=1110"},"modified":"2023-01-19T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:57:58","slug":"curatorial-care-humanising-practices-past-presences-as-present-encounters","status":"publish","type":"whats-on","link":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/whats-on\/curatorial-care-humanising-practices-past-presences-as-present-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"Curatorial Care, Humanising Practices: Past Presences as Present Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autograph ABP (London) and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), (Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), University of Johannesburg) are hosting a three-day conference to coincide with the opening of Black Chronicles IV, an exhibition curated by Ren\u00e9e Mussai (Senior Curator and Head of Archive & Research at Autograph ABP) at the FADA Gallery.<\/p>\n

Using the exhibition and photographic portraiture as a departure point, the conference will build upon a critical rethinking of curatorial practice, as traditionally bound to a colonial logic of collection, arrangement, \u2018safe-keeping\u2019 and display. Challenging the authorial custodianship associated with this tradition, and its historic (but lingering) application in the ethnographic\/raciogenic arrangement of marginalised bodies, proposed in this reappraisal is an ethical recourse to curatorial care \u2013 where contemporary practices linked to traditional understandings of curating, as a \u2018caring for objects\u2019, are reconstituted in relation to (re)-acknowledged subjectivities.<\/p>\n

In seeking to engage with such curatorial approaches \u2013 as practices through which, as Anthony Bogues suggests, \u201cwe may grasp how different acts of humanization occur\u2019\u201d1[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the conference will comprise an interdisciplinary programme of papers, presentations, panel discussions, screenings and performances. Through an engagement with a multiplicity of critical approaches to collection, presentation and display, and the ways in which these practices impact upon audience engagement, participants will reflect on curation as a means to facilitate opportunities for intersubjective encounters, through the re-inscription of voices historically consigned to the objectifying violence and routine silencing of colonial modernity.<\/p>\n

Confirmed speakers:<\/p>\n

Prof Anthony Bogues\u00a0\/ Curator, Academic & Director of the Centre for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University<\/p>\n

Prof Jay Pather\u00a0\/ Curator, Choreographer & Director of the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e Mussai\u00a0\/ Senior Curator and Head of Archive & Research, Autograph ABP, London<\/p>\n

Prof Deborah Willis\u00a0\/ Artist, Curator & Chair of the Dept. of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University<\/p>\n

Bogues, A. 2010. Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, & Freedom. London: University Press of New England: 119.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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