What is it about?
This article asks whether and how curating in the Anthropocene differs from curatorial practice in the Holocene. With a focus on the oceans, the author analyses curatorial methodologies that not only speak about, but also through their subject matter in a performative way.
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The recent proliferation of exhibitions about oceans calls for an analysis of their curatorial premises. The author argues that through a tidalectic (a term coined by Kamau Brathwaite) methodology – which takes cues from natural processes such as the ebb and flow of the tide – current ecological, societal and onto-epistemological shifts can be addressed productively.
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This page is a summary of: Tidalectic Curating, Journal of Curatorial Studies, October 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jcs_00023_1.
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