The Office for… Curatorial Practice as Political Act

Based on experiences in projects such as the Biennial en Resistencia, La Revuelta, Proyecto 44 and UNFES, the lecture explored how curatorial practice can be a tool to recover erased narratives, amplify silenced voices and build new forms of local knowledge. Juracán critically reviewed the history of art that has been written from a unitary, patriarchal, colonial and centralist perspective, to make way for a pluralistic vision where art not only inhabits museums, but also walls, streets and bodies in struggle.

The lecture aims to depatriarchalize and decolonise our gazes, understanding art as a social event and an exercise of dignity and collective memory. Through examples, we will open spaces to think together about how to curate from enjoyment, justice and community, where the political and the poetic intertwine to imagine other ways of inhabiting the art world.

‘The Office for…’ is a new series of artistic and discursive programmes exploring what might be possible if the criteria of ‘contemporary art’ are displaced, temporarily, by alternative frameworks which open up for a multitude of perspectives in one of events such as talks, gatherings, lectures, workshops, screenings, etc. OCA invites people, initiatives, institutions, and organisations that contribute to and inspire expanding the possibilities of thought, knowledge, and action throughout the planet.