Abstract
This paper focuses on research on the broader notion of “curating with care”, and applying queer, feminist and decolonial approaches to curatorial practices allying the arts with political emancipatory goals. Feminist, queer and decolonial tools allows us not only to question underlying systems of power operating in hegemonic spaces of knowledge, such as museums, but also to make emerge gestures (and counter-gestures) and narratives (and counter-narratives) to contribute to social and political transformation from those spaces. The paper is based on ongoing research and practice, currently being undertaken at the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva, through a collaboration preparing queer decolonial “oriented” (in the sense of Sara Ahmed) visits of the temporary exhibition: “Remembering. Geneva in the colonial world”.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Curating, Queer, Feminist, Decolonial, Embodied, Museum, Gestures/counter-gestures, Narratives/counter-narratives
