One of the meanings of the word “to curate” is curare – to care – and in recent years curatorial discourse has devoted increased attention to this aspect, creating a relational aesthetics that is based on deeper ethical postulates, such as caring about the inclusivity of processes, listening, and a clear delineation of boundaries by all sides. At the same time, this focus faces criticism, since by labelling an activity as caring, it is possible to cross the boundaries and intrude upon the self-determination of the individual, and it could be the case that the process is merely labelled for publicity, while employing strategies of power and coercion. How can these strategies be separated and a more inclusive curatorial practice built, which moves away from the postulate of genius and transforms into collective practice?



Participants: Roberta Atraste (LV), Iveta Gabaliņa (LV), Aleksejs Beļeckis (LV)
Curator and moderator: Antra Priede (LV)
Language: Latvian
Image: view from the NEXT 2023 ‘Emerging Curator!’ Award winner Laima Daberte’s exhibition ‘Time Found’