Mon 18 Nov 2024, 7:30 PM (local time)

Join a screening of Scuola Senza Fine (d. Adriana Monti 1983) at KASKCinema in Ghent, introduced by Sonia D’Alto, as part of the symposium: Making the World More Than Less Real, Intersectional Feminisms in Curatorial Education and Criticism.

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About the symposium: 

The convergence of feminism and curatorial practice is rooted in a history sparked by the exclusion of women artists from exhibitions, collections, and art education. Over time, this movement has grown, embracing a spectrum of feminist perspectives that build and unravel archives, challenge narratives, create new ways of seeing and interpretative frameworks, and expose structural inequalities within the art world.

With this in mind, Curatorial Studies asks: How do we weave intersectional feminist perspectives into the fabric of curatorial education, in step with an ever-shifting cultural landscape? Feminist pedagogy, grounded in feminist and critical theory, emphasises shared power in learning environments. It recognises that knowledge is socially produced through collaboration and addresses power dynamics within the classroom. It asks us to see traditional structures anew, through a feminist lens, and create spaces where marginalised voices resonate and rise. Here, participants don’t just absorb the programme’s content—they shape it—urging us to face the uneven terrain of knowledge itself. What if we turn towards curation that feels, that embraces the body, experience, and fluidity—an interdisciplinary and affective practice? And what of the connections between (un)learning, care, and the labour of parenthood? These, too, ask for our attention. As bell hooks reminds us in Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, education should reach beyond theory, engaging with real-world complexities, advocating for education that goes beyond theory to address lived realities.

Image: Scuola Senza Fine – Adriana Monti, 1983.