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Unauthorized Curating. The Relations between Art Activism and the Museum

Publication date: 2020

Ethnographies, 2020, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 159 - 172

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.20.013.12638

Authors

Katarzyna Maniak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-4621 Orcid
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Unauthorized Curating. The Relations between Art Activism and the Museum

Abstract

The article focuses on art activism directed to museums and their sponsorship relationship with the oil industry. It considers the form and content of protests undertaken by art collectives such as Liberate Tate, BP, or not BP?, and Fossil Free Culture NL. The author recognizes the goals of activists in undermining the reality of capitalocene. She frames this form of protest with the term “unauthorized curating”, which she derives from the analysis of participation paradigm and the definition of curatorial practice proposed by Marta Kosińska. Finally, she analyzes the strategy undertaken in art of protest.

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Information: Ethnographies, 2020, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 159 - 172

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:
Unauthorized Curating. The Relations between Art Activism and the Museum
English:

Unauthorized Curating. The Relations between Art Activism and the Museum

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-4621

Katarzyna Maniak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-4621 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 2020

Article status: Open

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