Abstract / Description of output
Addressing the latest encounter between feminist politics and art, this article identifies a curatorially driven turn towards social reproduction processes and infrastructures across the contemporary art field. It analyses the curatorial mediation of social practice through two UK-based projects that foreground social and economic justice issues, specifically through the politics and economies of food: Effy Harle and Finbar Prior’s Wandering Womb (2018), commissioned by Manual Labours for Nottingham Contemporary, and WochenKlausur’s Women-led Workers’ Cooperative (2013), initiated through Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts as part of the ECONOMY exhibition project. The central argument is that a rigorous engagement with social reproduction perspectives and theoretical vectors is vital to the analysis and critique of feminist curatorial work within the contemporary art institution.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 150-176 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Journal of Curatorial Studies |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2021 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- curatorial maintenance
- care and curating
- social reproduction
- feminist curating
- social justice
- social practice
- participatory art
- Effy Harle and Finbar Prior
- manual labours
- WochenKlausur
- curating and social justice