[NB007]
Monia Acciari and Philipp Rhensius (eds.)
Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions

with 33 contributions incl. short essays,
comments, poems, articles, and photo essays by
Monia Acciari, AGF aka poemproducer, Ailín Grad
aka Aylu, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Lendl Barcelos,
Sandeep Bhagwati, Phila Bergmann, Thomas
Burkhalter, Vivian Caccuri, Chico Dub, Daniel
«duex» Fontana, Andrea Goetzke, Natalie Gravenor,
Nikhila H., Rim Jasmin Irscheid, Raphael Kariuki aka
DJ Raph, Steph Kretowicz, Ari Robey-Lawrence,
Sulgi Lie, Imaad Majeed, Laura Mascarenhas,
Thea Reifler, Philipp Rhensius, Sergio Salazar,
Rebecca Salvadori, Suvani Suri, Gisela Swaragita,
Chafic Tabbara, Lucia Udvardyová, Gita Viswanath,
Salomé Voegelin

four colors, softback
15,5 × 23 cm, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-3-9525444-4-0
DOI: doi.org/10.56513/duej2028
EUR 34.– (Print)

Release
published by Norient Books
Bern, Switzerland
April 13, 2023
www.norient.com/books

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Infosheet: norient.com/sites/norient.com/files/2023-05/NB007_rhensius_politics-of-curatorship_info.pdf

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What happens to curatorial practices when treated as multi-voiced, pluralistic, and process-based? Politics of Curatorship – Collective and Affective Interventions asks what curatorship could be when it is freed from its elitist notions. It assembles a range of different interventions by 32 writers, artists, journalists, and scholars from all over the world. They reflect on curating as a practice of meaning-making that is subject to multiple parameters: contextual, affective, bodily, sensorial, personal, aesthetic, economic, and political. On the occasion of Norient’s 20th anniversary, we attempt to disentangle the term curatorship from the received definition as a mere selecting process within the creative realm.

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VOICES

«For 20 years, Norient has been successfully publishing texts, films, and sounds that offer new ways to think about and with music and sound from all over the world. This book is a reminder of what Norient stands for: an urge for deep research that doesn’t ignore nor fetishize the senses, and constant questioning, expanding or revising of cultural canons. The volume shows that what has become known as «decolonization» to an often malevolent mainstream discourse might need to be addressed as a matter of curation and curatorship. A more challenging, surprising and less boring way of cultural production is not only a question of what but how one curates. May this book find the readers it deserves and needs.»
Diedrich Diederichsen

«This collection is an insightful curation in motion: it weaves together both nuanced and textured experiences, existences, imaginations, voices, presences, journeys, tales, stories, and narratives about the art of «cura» in all its forms – from photography, performing arts, journalism, film, music, sound, radio, DJing, and poetry. Critical outlooks onto curatorial worlds; radical affective and emotional engagements – sparkled with subtle humor, and astute craft – this contribution is an uplifting, refreshing, deep, joyful, and indeed both timely and urgent intervention!»
Jenny Mbaye

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About the Editors

Monia Acciari is an associate professor in film and television history at De Montfort University, U.K.; she researches and writes about film curatorship, film festivals, and Indian cinema (broadly speaking). She is also currently writing her monograph on the history of film festivals in India. She has been visiting professor at Indian universities and delivered practical courses on film festival organization and film history.


Philipp Rhensius is a Berlin-based writer, musician, sociologist, poet, musicologist, curator, and editor of Norient. His projects are driven by the idea that feeling the chains is the first step toward emancipation. Currently, he is doing artistic research on alienation, and works on new formats such as the audio essay and the monthly Norient column «Sonic Worlding» for which he invites contributors to think with rather than only about music and sound.