The Mark Leckey exhibition supports the radical thesis that anyone can curate an exhibition. Ultimately to select is neither a skill or expertise but a power and a privilege. (How and why you get this golden ticket is another question). Unfortunately the exhibition also support the conservative thesis that certain skills, knowledge, sensitivity might be useful. This need not be an impediment. Any body and everybody should be eligible to select an exhibition (say by being picked at random from the electoral register). However the business of creating an exhibition should also be professionally supported and involve openness and sharing about skills, expertise, cultural knowledge etc. Precisely because selection is a power and a privilege it should never belong to curators or artists etc. In a de-institutionalising culture professionals, specialists and artists should only support and facilitate. There is no reason why non-institutionalised and institutional forms should not co-exist as parallel but separate practices. But for all their endlessly talk of experimentation, innovation and boundary breaking, the bureaucracies of arts presentation never feel incline to experiment, innovate or break boundaries were their own managerial prerogatives on form and content.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:27:40 +0000
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