The Curator as Producer
Journal of contemporary curatorship
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This issue of Manifesta Journal takes its title from “The Author as Producer,” a lecture delivered by Walter Benjamin in 1934 in which he argues that the presumed autonomy of the creator is in fact always oriented toward a deliberate choice or, as he calls it, a “tendency”: a political, social, and ethical position.
Assuming that the activity of the curator is located within a social context, and that social interactions are determined by relationships of production, MJ #10 emphasizes the authorial role of curators in order to analyze their potential to engage with functional transformations, using their creations to change the models that define social relations.
In the Discourse section, Boris Buden explores the various points of view amongst art professionals on how to define the new role of the curator in contemporary art production. Pascal Gielen discusses the problems of the curator in the today’s neoliberal network economy.
The Dialogues section presents an interview between Claire Bishop and Nato Thompson concerning the practice of critical and political curatorship.In the Positions section, Luke Skrebowski discusses the evolution of Benjamin’s “The Author as Producer” into “The Curator as Producer”