Curating with Care

Elke Krasny and Lara Perry: Introduction

Part I. Caring Curating

1. Françoise Vergès: Curatorial Labour and Decolonial Feminism　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　
2. Bruxas Bruxas Arts Collective: Get Bodied: Inverting the Witch to Summon a New Commons
3. Care beyond Curation: A Conversation with Lauren Craig. Interview by Racha Baraka Pauline 　
4. De Souza: Transcultural Care and the Cultural Sector in the United Kingdom
5. Helen Kaplinsky: Caring for ‘range-ful’ identities in the work of Danielle Brathwaite Shirley 　　
6. Mirella Maria: Decolonial and Heritage Practices in the Context of Current Global Challenges. Quilombola Museology and Digital Technologies in Brazilian Community Museums
7. Sophie Lingg: Caring Curating and Social Media　
8. Berit Fischer: A Laboratory of Care. Active Micropolitics, Joyfulness and Affectivity 　
9. Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia. Curating becomes Curing
10. Alexandra Kokoli: Care, Aftercare, and the Work of Transmission: Learning from Greenham Common 　
11. Eliana Otta: Caring for Mourning, Working with Loss. Curating, Listening, and Attending to the Sacred in Peruvian Highlands and Forests
12. Elke Krasny: Care, Thought, Being: Curating with a Wounded Planet

　

Part II. Curating Care




13. Caroline Gausden, Kirsten Lloyd, Nat Raha, and Catherine Spencer: Curating Forms of Care in Art and Activism: A Roundtable on Life Support　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　　
14. Helena Reckitt: From Coping to Curious: Unlearning and Reimagining Curatorial Habits of Care
15. Sascia Bailer: Care for Caregivers: 　Curating against the Care Crisis
16. Jacqueline Millner and Zsuzsanna Zsoboszlay: Cultivating Care Ethics and the Minor Gesture in Curatorial and Research Practices
17. Jenny Richards: ‘Do what you do best and outsource the rest’ - Curatorial Lessons within Cultures of Outsourcing 　 　　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　
18. Katja Kobolt, Petja Grafenauer, and Brigita Miloš: The Platform of Care: Collective Curatorial Modes of the n*a*i*l*s hacks*facts*fictions platform 　 　　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　
19. Claudia Lomoschitz: Curating Queer Nursing: the performance installation PARTUS Gyno Bitch Tits 　 　 　 　　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　　
20. Magdalena Kallenberger (MATERNAL FANTASIES collective): Curating a Collective Body: a Non-Idealized Concept of Care
21. Johanna Braun: Spellbound. Witchcraft Activism as Caring Curatorial Practice
22. Zahra Khan: Curating Aliveness. Engaging with Ecologies
23. Hansel Sato: La escuela del buen vivir/ The school of good life: counteracting the imperial mode of living

Biography

Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator and author. Krasny’s scholarship addresses care, ecological and social justice, memory work and emancipatory cultural practice at the present historical conjuncture marked by ecocidal and genocidal pasts. Her exhibition Hands-On Urbanism: The Right to Green on urban gardening and farming as subsistence practices was included in the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, curated with Angelika Fitz at the Architecture Centre Vienna in 2019, introduces a perspective of planetary care ethics through architectural practice. Krasny co-edited Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge, 2023).

Lara Perry works in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton. Trained first as a historian, Lara’s career has involved her in work with artists, curators, photographers, educators, computer scientists, philosophers, archivists, activists and art historians. Much of her research has focused on evolving feminist museology, starting with her doctoral thesis on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London) published as History’s Beauties: Women, History and the National Portrait Gallery 1856–1900 in 2006. Lara has published a number of essays and edited volumes concerning art history's and curating's relationship to gender and feminism, most recently, an edited volume with Elke Krasny Curating as Feminist Organizing (Routledge, 2023).