Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art

Performing museography: A practice‐led research for art museums, conducted at MUVE, Fondazione dei Musei Civici di Venezia

“…On the one hand, it involves the study of the selected sites from within MUVE, with a specific focus on museographic configurations, further informed by the aforementioned interviews and by ideas in contemporary museum, performance and participation practices. Such ideas derive from existent literature in museum and curatorial studies: this includes research in the use of multimodal communication strategies (Diamantopoulou & Christidou, 2016, 2017; Dicks, 2014; Eardley et al, 2016; Kress, 2010), in the museum as performative context (Bagnall, 2015; Casey, 2005; Diamantopoulou & Christidou, 2017; Eardley et al, 2016; Illeris, 2015; Malzacher, 2019; Mehzoud, 2019), and in participatory and inclusive strategies (Bishop, 2012; French, 2020; Høffding et al, 2020).…”

“…The creative exploration ideas mentioned here stem from the aforementioned principle of critical theatricality: in line with this, theatrical conventions (for instance ideas of mise en scène , dramaturgy, choreography and scenography) are often referenced as a way to frame the speculative artistic tasks envisioned, so that these may provide a different perspective on the existent performative relations within a museum and activate these through creative practice. Additionally, such creative exploration may also fluidly shift from artistic to curatorial concerns, reprising an evolution of the understanding of curating that is parallel with the shift in thinking about the museum's purpose toward a more experiential and participatory emphasis (French, 2020) and that has led to a progressive reframing of the act of curating in relation to that of creating (O'Neill, 2007).…”