#curatorial work

yellow forms

and red hot things

on a red hot city

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Make a little sense of the ties amongst red hot things and yellow forms at https://substack.com/home/post/p-183948798

In addition to “eating wealth for breakfast,” as Martin put it, racism is life-threatening. The threats from racism range from violence to poverty, from neglect in the medical realm, for example, to mental illness. People actually end up with PTSD from living with racism, to say nothing of depression.[i] When racist ideologies are endorsed at the highest level of government, as they are in the current white supremacist administration, anti-racist efforts must be of paramount concern to curators.

That is because curators are tinkerers in our informational environments.[ii] Our informational environments inform the development of our opinions and, from there, our choices of when and how to take action. After friends and family, museums have long been one of the most trusted sources of information, above and beyond the regular news media and, of course, social media.[iii]

“This selection of videos by artists and collectives based in Munich and the surrounding area has been compiled into a program as part of the 2016 Jahresgaben exhibition. It will be viewable in the Kino as a 75 minute program ...”