Barring Freedom: Art, Abolition and the Museum in Pandemic Times

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Journal of Curatorial Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1386/jcs_00055_1
Alexandra Moore, Rachel Nelson
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Barring Freedom, a travelling exhibition featuring artworks engaging the histories and current conditions of prisons and policing in the United States, was to open in April 2020. While COVID-19 disrupted that plan, the realities of inequity in the United States placed into stark relief by the pandemic and the uprisings of summer 2020 brought urgency to rethinking the curatorial vision of the exhibition to reach audiences beyond the gallery walls. Buoyed by the idea that, in the words of Angela Davis, art can ‘propel people towards social emancipation’, the exhibition and related programming was reconceived as an ongoing, interdisciplinary, public scholarship initiative reaching across the borders normally perceived between museums, prisons and universities. Opportunities arose for expanded forms of community building and participation that welcomed different forms of knowledge, furthering the political and aesthetic aims of the project to shift the social attachment to prisons.
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禁止自由:大流行时期的艺术、废奴和博物馆
“禁止自由”是一个巡回展览,展出的艺术品涉及美国监狱和警务的历史和现状,该展览原定于2020年4月开幕。尽管2019冠状病毒病打乱了这一计划,但美国的不平等现实因疫情和2020年夏季的起义而凸显出来,这促使人们迫切需要重新思考展览的策展愿景,以吸引画廊之外的观众。用安吉拉·戴维斯(Angela Davis)的话来说,艺术可以“推动人们走向社会解放”,在这一理念的鼓舞下,展览和相关节目被重新视为一项持续的、跨学科的公共奖学金倡议,跨越了博物馆、监狱和大学之间通常被认为的边界。有机会扩大社区建设和参与的形式,欢迎不同形式的知识,促进项目的政治和美学目标,改变社会对监狱的依恋。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the cultural functioning of curating and its relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics and display culture. The journal takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes ''the curatorial''. Curating has evolved considerably from the connoisseurship model of arranging objects to now encompass performative, virtual and interventionist strategies. While curating as a spatialized discourse of art objects remains important, the expanded cultural practice of curating not only produces exhibitions for audiences to view, but also plays a catalytic role in redefining aesthetic experience, framing cultural conditions in institutions and communities, and inquiring into constructions of knowledge and ideology. As a critical and responsive forum for debate in the emerging field of curatorial studies, the journal will foster scholarship in the theory, practice and history of curating, as well as that of exhibitions and display culture in general. The journal supports in-depth investigations of contemporary and historical exhibitions, case studies of curators and their engagements, and analyses of the critical dynamics influencing the production of exhibitions in art and broader display culture. The Journal of Curatorial Studies invites contributions from scholars within curatorial studies, art history, museum studies, cultural studies, and other academic disciplines. The journal publishes both thematic and open issues, and features research articles, contemporary and historical case studies, interviews with curators, artists and theorists, and reviews of books, exhibitions and conferences.
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