Curating After the Global: Roadmaps for the Present

Co-edited by Lucy Steeds, the final part in a trilogy of anthologies on curating in relation to contemporary art.

Steeds particular contribution is 'Section II: Exhibition Histories', which they open with an introductory text 'Activating What Might Have Happened to Shape What Could Be'. This section gathers contributions by María Berríos & Jakob Jakobsen, Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Ntone Edjabe & David Morris, Morad Montazami and Grace Samboh. Steeds also contributes an essay: 'Following Projeto Terra'.

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From the publishers website:

What it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial, and theoretical knowledge and practice.

In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of locality, geopolitical change, the reassertion of nation-states, and the violent diminishing of citizen and denizen rights across the globe.

It has become commonplace to talk of a globalized art world and even to speak of contemporary art as a driver of globalization. This universalization of what art is or can be is often presumed to be at the cost of local traditions and any sense of locality and embeddedness. But need this be the case? The contributors to Curating After the Global explore, among other things, specific curatorial projects that may offer roadmaps for the globalized present; new institutional approaches; and ways of thinking, vocabularies, and strategies for moving forward.