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Theory Tuesdays is a nonacademic platform for theoretical discussion founded, organized and coordinated by artist Philip Matesic since 2009 in Zürich, Switzerland. Participants read beforehand then discuss contemporary art, design, literary, cultural and critical theory on a weekly basis, with texts selected and introduced each week by a different person.

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Tuesday 17th April 2018, 8:00pm

Session 194: Curatorial Activism by Maura Reilly

During this Theory Tuesdays session, the seventh of nine held at the Kunsthalle Zürich during the Rob Pruitt: The Church exhibition, Rémi Jaccard selected excerpts from the book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly (Thames & Hudson, 2018).

“Curatorial Activism is a practice that commits itself to counter-hegemonic initiatives that give voice to those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether—and, as such, focuses almost exclusively on work produced by women, artists of color, non-Euro-Americans, and/or queer artists. Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating takes as its operative assumption that the art system — its history, institutions, market, press, and so forth — is an hegemony that privileges white male creativity to the exclusion of all Other artists.” -Maura Reilly

Participants: 6

Curatorial Activism – Maura Reilly

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