Curating with Care

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).

Introduction; Part I. Caring Curating; 1. Curatorial Labour and Decolonial Feminism; 2. Get Bodied: Inverting the Witch to Summon a New Commons; 3. A Conversation with Lauren Craig. Interview by Racha Baraka Pauline; 4. Transcultural Care and the Cultural Sector in the United Kingdom; 5. Caring for ‘range-ful’ identities in the work of Danielle Brathwaite Shirley; 6. Decolonial and Heritage Practices in the Context of Current Global Challenges. Quilombola Museology and Digital Technologies in Brazilian Community Museums; 7. Caring Curating and Social Media; 8. A Laboratory of Care. Active Micropolitics, Joyfulness and Affectivity; 9. Avtonomi Akadimia. Curating becomes Curing; 10. Care, Aftercare, and the Work of Transmission: Learning from Greenham Common; 11. Caring for Mourning, Working with Loss. Curating, Listening, and Attending to the Sacred in Peruvian Highlands and Forests; 12. Care, Thought, Being: Curating with a Wounded Planet; Part II. Curating Care; 13. Curating Forms of Care in Art and Activism: A Roundtable on Life Support; 14. From Coping to Curious: Unlearning and Reimagining Curatorial Habits of Care; 15. Care for Caregivers: Curating against the Care Crisis; 16. Cultivating Care Ethics and the Minor Gesture in Curatorial and Research Practices; 17. ‘Do what you do best and outsource the rest’ - Curatorial Lessons within Cultures of Outsourcing; 18. The Platform of Care: Collective Curatorial Modes of the n*a*i*l*s hacks*facts*fictions platform; 19. Curating Queer Nursing: the performance installation PARTUS Gyno Bitch Tits; 20. Curating a Collective Body: a Non-Idealized Concept of Care; 21. Spellbound. Witchcraft Activism as Caring Curatorial Practice; 22. Curating Aliveness. Engaging with Ecologies; 23. Hansel Sato: La escuela del buen vivir/ The school of good life: counteracting the imperial mode of living