California Italian Studies

What are the risks of falling prey to protagonisms within the realm of cultural organization and curation? How might we reflect upon the work that we engage in as not aligned with the modes and motivations of cultural institutions around us? What does it mean for the objectives of shifting culture and society to be unaligned with those divisive factors that keep us focused on obtaining those few resources available in exchange for notions of integration into a system that has done little to demonstrate a care for what we represent? I have often reflected upon the notion of collectivity within curatorial practice and the ways in which the shifting away from the individual, the opacity provided by collective gestures, force institutions to have to dismantle those assignments of value that leave space for only those “chosen” to enter.