Forthcoming book chapter: CRCC (Treva Legassie, Matthew-Robin Nye, karen wong), “A Latento for Curation as Research-Creation,” Media, Practice and Theory: tracking emergent thresholds of experience, Vernon Press, 2022.
Abstract:
A latento calls forth the tendencies of the minor, whereas a manifesto articulates the already-present molar. This chapter explores how curation as research-creation, fuelled by “artfulness,” can undo the disciplinary zones of art and exhibitionary practice, in favour of an expanded zone of (incipient) action.
Art, as allied to intuition, is understood as the “way”, or “manner”, which crafts an operational problem. The operational problem proposed by both art and research-creation is a transversal movement that is political, propositional of a “value” shorn away from the logic of the “excluded middle” (Massumi). Art, or artfulness, detached from contemporary institutional structures, might align more with what Harney and Moten have termed “sociality,” a form of non-exclusive desiring-relation. The curatorial, as a form of sociality, must then tend transversal relations - and their conditions, catalysts, and other agents - attuning to those nearly-imperceptible latencies which are allied to the artful, truly deserving of the exhibitionary.
Image: Fire in Oka Provincial Park during a CRCC writing retreat.