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Curatorial practice

By: Jane Watt

What is an artist-curator? What makes a good collaborative partnership between a curator and an artist? What financial, practical and critical support is available to curators? Do you work with an organisation or go it alone?

These are some of the questions that a number of artists, curators, organisers and funders have pondered in a rich mix of articles, tours, profiles and interviews for Knowledge bank's new section on Curatorial practice. They reveal what makes them tick, what inspires them, what challenges them and what it means to be involved in curatorial practice today. Charlotte Frost points out "Beyond the curatorial work established by and presented from within art museums and galleries, a plethora of curatorial organisations operate in order to support and develop the practice of curating." She examines some of the different remits addressed in her tour 'Curatorial organisations', and provides an initial orientation in their hugely diverse activities. Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope draw on their own experience as curators to discuss the idea of 'independent' curatorial practice in Independent curatorial perspectives. "Maybe institutions get stuck too easily, like big articulated lorries in small roads. A gridlock is always possible. The role of the independent curator is more like a bicycle that can nip in and out and keep moving." Jen Wu admits that she came into curating "rather by...

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