Curating and Politics: In Theory

April 2014 – The lectures presented at the seminar Curating and Politics: In Theory will oppose traditional perspectives on the politics of curating by approaching historical and contemporary exhibition projects in the perspective of Jacques Rancière’s definition of politics. Rancière does not consider politics as exercise of power, but as what occurs when the contingency of the dominant social order is revealed, ruptured and reconfigured for the better; that is, for a more equal and democratic system.