[-empyre-] collective curatorship?

[Ana Valdés]

My friend the architect Marcus Novak coined used often the concept "liquid
architecture". Within the concept were a broad array of elements and forms
adapted both from Boals "Theater of the Opressed" to Gayatri Spivak
subaltern theory, a continuation itself from Gramsci's theories.
In Novak's terms everyone could be an architect and the work of the
architect became a collective work, a real anonymous teamwork.
The same should be the curatorial experience today, when art and activism
merge and converge. The Art scene seems to me today far more radical and
changing than literature, in Art the boundaries between the self and the
other are bluring and creating a more hybrid situation, where academia,
activism, fine art and street art cooperate starting new arenas and new
contexts.
Literature seems instead still be the prisoner of old metaphores and
individual work. The publisher houses are still unchallenged and the writer
is still alone sitting in his or her desk.
I feel myself, as an old fashioned writer :), more attracted than ever to
the work in the arts, to find new ways where new technologies and new
audiences make differences.

Ana

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