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Uncurating Sound
Knowledge with Voice and Hands
Salomé Voegelin
- 136 pages
- English
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Uncurating Sound
Knowledge with Voice and Hands
Salomé Voegelin
About This Book
Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art. It takes from curation the notion of care and thinks it through purposeful inefficiency as resistance: going sideways and another way. Thus it moves curation through the double negative of not not to "uncuration": untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution. Looking at Kara Walker's work, the book invites the performance of the curatorial via indivisible connections and processes. Reading Kathy Acker and Adrian Piper it speculates on how the body brings us to knowledge beyond the ordinary. Playing Kate Carr and Ellen Fullman it re-examines Modernism's colonial ideology, and materialises the vibrational presence of a plural sense. Listening to Marguerite Humeau and Manon de Boer it avoids theory but agitates a direct knowing from voice and hands, and feet and ears that disorder hegemonic knowledge strands in favour of local, tacit, feminist and contingent knowledges that demand like Zanele Muholi's photographs, an ethical engagement with the work/world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue Sounding Gaps in Pavements
- Introduction
- Breath 1 Curating politics in the gallery space
- Breath 2 The possibility of resistance and the performance of alternatives
- Performance score Listen across to uncurate knowledge
- Breath 3 With voice and hands
- sound it IIIIIII
- Breath 4 Postnormal
- Performing walls IX
- Bibliography
- List of Works
- Index
- Copyright Page