Please note that Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s performance MAKE THE SILENCE COUNT will be replaced by Amanda Abi Khalil’s conversation „Curating as Hacking“.

The conversation „Curating as Hacking“ proposes a curatorial practice whose purpose is to contribute to the commons in times of collapse. Building on a decade of interventions with Temporary Art Platform (TAP), it will present art projects which are embedded directly into social reality at a 1:1 scale. Set against conditions of polycrisis including wars, genocides, forced migrations, and intertwined economic and environmental collapses, the conversation will present how curatorial practices can open fissures within social and cultural systems. It will present art which moves beyond conventional measures of social impact or aesthetic value to emphasise the capacity of curatorial praxis to sustain collective forms of life, imagination, and solidarity under conditions of rupture. TAP is a nonprofit curating conditions for communities, private bodies and governmental institutions assuming that contemporary artists can be allies in driving enduring social change amidst precarious contexts. TAP approaches public space as a site of action, commissioning artworks in Beirut and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in villages and archaeological sites. Its projects extend to spaces of everyday public use—such as libraries, nurseries, and, more recently, hospitals. 

• Sektion Section: An Incomplete Assembly
• Programm Programme: Curating as Hacking