1st Edition

A Metaphysics for the Curatorial

By Srajana Kaikini Copyright 2027
200 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation and its significance to the field of aesthetics. The author, as an artist-philosopher, is concerned with what contemporary curatorial work can offer to philosophical discourse. In the attempt to understand how things are curated and what the activity of curation does to curated ‘things’, the author puts forward an aesthetic and... Read more

Introduction  1. Objects and Relations  2. Relational Constitution and Identity  3. A Metaphysics for the Curatorial  4. Curatorial Objects and Aesthetic Objects  5. The Primacy of Curation in Aesthetic Experience    Bibliography    Appendix - A Brief Survey of Literature on the Curatorial

Biography

Srajana Kaikini is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University, India where she teaches topics in aesthetics, metaphysics, phenomenology, curatorial studies, and transdisciplinary philosophy. She is also a poet, artist, essayist and curator with more than a decade of work spanning several exhibitions, projects, residencies and fellowships globally. Her book of poems The Night the Writing Fell Silent (PAG, 2023) was longlisted for the Oxford Art Book Prize (2024). She is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Pluriversal Perspectives (Springer Nature, 2024-2026) and was the recipient of the IFA-Museums and Archives Research Grant (2023-2024).