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Like everything (or many things) in this 21st century, the figure of the curator fragments and blurs, contracting and expanding, moving ever further beyond; everything that happens seems to be valid and any definitions are still, if possible, more extensive than the practices that constitute them. Singular, private, unique, specialised. It’s impossible to define, without using subordinates or exceptions, something that never repeats itself in exactly the same way.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve wanted to work with this concept or practice of curating, to go one step further in our understanding of it, to try to order or assign it a place though we know it won\u2019t be a definitive one, but at least it will be here as a subject, an agent for thought but also something to think about. Many of those of us who write criticism are or have been also curators. Much curating currently consumes more text than image; it’s not by chance therefore that we refer to it through text, considering practices, approaches, documents or even performances of curating through the written format.<\/p>\n

We inaugurate this subject with Sonia Fern\u00e1ndez Pan<\/a>, who brought an interesting twist of subject agents and patients, questioning the material, from the negated position of the object as central. She was followed by an interview by Juan Canela with Jos\u00e9 Roca<\/a>, responsible for the project Flora in Bogot\u00e1 and a prolific curator of biennales and exhibitions in institutions on a grand scale as much as in small, independent centres. The curatorial practice of Roca makes manifest the infrastructural dimension or the capacity to active spaces and working structures that permit the development of artistic contexts on a local level.<\/p>\n

Still on the other side of the Atlantic, Paloma Checa interviewed Sol Henaro<\/a>, \u201ccurator of documentary collections and in charge of the Centro de Documentaci\u00f3n Arkheia, the bibliographical and document archive of the Museo Universitario de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo of the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico\u201d, whose approach to curating expands the limits introducing into the practice or the definition, the possibility of the archive and its contents as objects of curating.<\/p>\n

Raquel Machtus narrated the narration of Alexandra Laudo<\/a> in her performed curating of the project \u201cAn intellectual History of the Clock\u201d and amidst this we slipped in an extra dedicated to the 2016 ACCA symposium with Marina Vives interviewing Federico Campagna.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By chance, things of wise destiny: next Friday 2 December, Monste Badia and Marina Vives, 2\/3 of the board<\/em> of A*DESK will be at MACBA talking about\u2026curating. It will be as part of the presentation Genealog\u00edas curatoriales. 26 comisarios\/as en di\u00e1logo<\/em>, a book published by Casimiro, conceived and developed by Xavier Bassas. An opportunity to discuss, once again, the figure of the curator. We know from the outset that we won\u2019t reach unanimous acceptance, but you\u2019ll find us there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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