Curatorial Urgencies

Curatorial Urgencies was conceived as a network and exchange forum, reflecting on the evolving demands, potentials, and limits of curatorial practice in the face of global pluri-crises. The one-day conference combined keynote talks with World Café sessions and a shared meal, fostering dialogue on topics such as censorship, de-funding, appropriation, eco-fatigue, precarity, and the rise of authoritarian politics, as well as concepts of solidarity, trust, doubt, affective sabotage, and untranslatability. Contributions from Bassam El Baroni, Irene de Craen, Nikita Dhawan, Lama El Khatib, and Ana Teixeira Pinto critically engaged with infrastructures, colonial legacies, financial temporality, and the ethical and political potentials of art and curatorial practice. The event also marked the culmination of 16 years of the Cultures of the Curatorial program and was accompanied by a publication that brings together the diverse thematic areas in which the alumns situated, relational, and critically engaged curatorial practices position themselves.