Reimagined curatorial practice : land, labour, and community
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Lawrence, Toby Katrine
issued: 2022-01-06T21:32:18Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Reimagined Curatorial Practice: Land, Labour, and Community critically examines contemporary initiatives reshaping curation that move beyond western parameters of curation to offer something else. I am asking: How are curators reimagining curatorial praxis? How are curators intentionally caring for their practices to better care for those invited to contribute and for those who constitute their communities? How do these strategies replace, intervene, or work against or in conversation with settler-colonial models to establish accessible, ethical, equitable, and anti-racist spaces of art? Through experiential and archival research, I explore select curatorial models that operate in the intermediary space between setter-established organizations and non-dominant epistemologies, ontologies, and practices. I analyse the mechanisms of these examples in relation to the intersecting pillars of land, labour, and community to consider where and how they open up space for reimagining curation. I employ a decolonial feminist methodological approach to assess and make visible the colonial and patriarchal biases present in western curatorial praxes and to extend the scholarship on feminist and decolonial curation in Canada through models that centre direct action. Finally, I locate Canadian practices within international discourses that speak to instrumental change towards equity within dominant culture spaces and demonstrate praxes that have been built predominantly through relationships that support and underscore relational and land-based pedagogies. With emphasis on the relational methodologies that shape my own practice, my study is relative to the locations and practitioners from which and with whom these ideas have evolved, and my relationship to them.
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note: Reimagined Curatorial Practice: Land, Labour, and Community by Toby Katrine Lawrence MA, The University of British Columbia, 2012 BA Hon, University of Victoria, 2009 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) December 2021 © Toby Katrine Lawrence, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommended to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a dissertation entitled: Reimagined Curatorial Practice: Land, Labour, and Community submitted by Toby Katrine Lawrence in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Ashok Mathur Co-Supervisor Tania Willard Co-Supervisor Allison Hargreaves Supervisory Committee Member Carla Taunton Supervisory Committee Member Shawn Wilson University Examiner Candice Hopkins External Examiner iii Abstract Reimagined Curatorial Practice: Land, Labour, and Community critically examines contemporary initiatives reshaping curation that move beyond western parameters of curation to offer something else. I am asking: How are curators reimagining curatorial praxis? How are curators intentionally caring for their practices to better care for those invited to contribute and for those who constitute their communities? How do these strategies replace, intervene, or work against or in conversation with settler-colonial models to establish accessible, ethical, equitable, and anti-racist spaces of art? Through experiential and archival research, I explore select curatorial models that operate in the intermediary space between setter-established organizations and non-dominant epistemologies, ontologies, and practices. I analyse the mechanisms of these examples in relation to the intersecting pillars of land, labour, and community to consider where and how they open up space for reimagining curation. I employ a decolonial…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0406172
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Mathur, Ashok, 1961-
contributor: Willard, Tania
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80568