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Curating Under Pressure

Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge, 2020) is out. Edited by Janet Marstine and Svetlana Mintcheva, this book includes my chapter titled “Truth or dare? Curatorial practice and artistic freedom of expression in Turkey,” where I discuss how artists and curators question the independence of privately supported art centers; how cultural organizations communicate with their neighbors as well as with lawyers to sustain their programs; and how fringe and temporary exhibition venues challenge curators to subvert both police intervention and community pressure. Throughout the chapter, I ask whether it is possible to replace the immobilizing question of how we can prevent censorship or self-censorship with the following question: how can censorship incidents give critical insights into the dynamics between contemporary art and politics and how can curators develop better tools to sustain freedom of expression? 

Book description is as follows:

“Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous. Contributors map the diverse forms such self-censorship takes and offer creative strategies for negotiating curatorial integrity.

This is the first book to look at pressures to self-censor and the curatorial responses to these pressures from a wide range of international perspectives. The book offers examples of the many creative strategies that curators deploy to negotiate pressures to self-censor and gives evidence of curators’ political acumen, ethical sagacity and resilience over the long term. It also challenges the assumption that self-censorship is something to be avoided at all costs and suggests that a decision to self-censor may sometimes be politically and ethically imperative. Curating Under Pressure serves as a corrective to the assumption that censorship pressures render practitioners impotent. It demonstrates that curatorial practice under pressure offers inspiring models of agency, ingenuity and empowerment.

Curating Under Pressure is a highly original and intellectually ambitious volume and as such will be of great interest to students and academics in the areas of museum studies, curatorial and gallery studies, art history, studio art and arts administration. The book will also be an essential tool for museum practitioners.”

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on imbd it's said it's said leto is 'eyed' for the role

^Visual depiction of him being eyed for the role by @artisticfreedomofexpression

[i-want-my-iwtv]

@artisticfreedomofexpression:

Found this on my Instagram and immediately thought of you. I hope you’re well, and having a lovely day! 💖

I LOVE THIS!! Great find, @artisticfreedomofexpression. Definitely brightened my day *hugs tightly*

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Interview with the Vampire - final scene artwork – copy used on set - (28 x 16) INT. INN SUPPER ROOM By Dante Ferretti

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[i-want-my-iwtv]

It's your birthday today?! Well then a very Happy Birthday to you, my beautiful friend!! 🍷❤️

Thank u so much! I am so terrible for not replying sooner, but u know how these things are, the longer they go unreplied to the harder it is to DO IT

Here’s smtg fresh I found, posting it now in your honor, concept art from IWTV….

Interview with the Vampire - final scene artwork – copy used on set - (28 x 16) INT. INN SUPPER ROOM. By Dante Ferretti. Will post it separately, too. 

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You. You have better hair than me. *strokes hair gently*

*knocks on door* its me goku

[i-want-my-iwtv]

Thinking about it now, I get how someone could get that impression. After all, I do only wear black. ;)

"…it was [Claudia’s] pleading that forced me to give up my rusty black for dandy jackets and silk ties and soft gray coats and gloves and black capes. Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn’t opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess."

- Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire

Thinking that “someone who wears all black = goth” was an older sorta view of goth. Now there’s pastel goth, and steampunk goth, and all these crazy variations.

See, when people try to label me, I know what’s really happening, they’re trying to categorize, trying to assign words to something to better understand it… Maybe in the way that when people ask “Where are you from?” And you say, “New Jersey,” or “Portland,” or wherever, they are adding to their knowledge base of “People from New Jersey are ______" or "People from Portland are ______".  When in fact you really can’t compare one New Jersian or a Portlandian so simply. If I meet a nice person from Portland, are they ALL nice people there? Pfffft. Nope. 

When an older person says, “Wearing all black makes you look goth,” sometimes I feel like that’s a veiled kind of criticism, what they’re really saying is: “Other people who do not know you like I do might think that you are goth and make assumptions about you because you are dressed like one.”

Maybe they’re trying to help, like, if I had smtg on my face I would want someone to say, “Hey, are you okay, there’s alot of blood dripping down your chin there…”

Just proper etiquette!