From curating contingency to curating disaster ; Nga kurimi i rastisjes te kurimi i shkatërrimit
In: Art Studies; No. 19 (2020): Art Studies; 105-123 ; Studime për Artin; No. 19 (2020): Studime për Artin, 2022
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Dear Sonja This is Jonida Gashi writing, Chair of the Department of Art Studies at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Art in Tirana, part of the Academy of Albanian Studies. […] kindly gave me your email address. First of all, I hope you are doing well in the face of this pandemic. We are slowly beginning to emerge from a very strict and very nerve-wracking lockdown here in Albania. I mention this also because it connects to what I am writing to you about today. I'll get to the point without further ado. I am in the process of finalizing the list of contributors & contributions for the forthcoming issue of the Art Studies journal, which is one of two journals published by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Art (the other one being Anthropology). This will be the first issue of the journal under my editorship, with the thematic section focusing on the relationship between post-socialist/contemporary art and the archive, broadly understood. I would like to warmly invite you to be one of our contributors for the non-thematic section of the journal, which given the current situation will focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-COVID-19 world. Specifically, I would like to invite you to further expand on your idea of "curating contingency", only this time beyond the scope of a single exhibition and in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In your review of the Tirana Patience exhibition you define "curating contingency" as being akin "to arrang[ing] a situation in such a way that it is allowed to speak for itself". I must say that I like your definition very much, however, even as I was reading your review it struck me that a disaster, be it a 6.4M earthquake or an outbreak of a hitherto unknown virus that turns into a pandemic, defies or at least goes beyond being a mere contingency. (For instance, had the magnitude of the 26 November 2019 earthquake been a little bit higher and/or had its epicenter been slightly nearer to Tirana, there could have easily been no ...
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From curating contingency to curating disaster ; Nga kurimi i rastisjes te kurimi i shkatërrimit
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lau, Sonja |
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Zeitschrift: | Art Studies; No. 19 (2020): Art Studies; 105-123 ; Studime për Artin; No. 19 (2020): Studime për Artin, 2022 |
Veröffentlichung: | Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit, 2022 |
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