"Why does all curating need to be done in-house and have a lot too much to do with gatekeeping?" ... Tandra Vale
"Is because the SSC (Secret Society of Curators) want to keep each other in work?" ... Unidentified student
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Recognising the citizen curator
Rebecca O’Neill, University of Hull
"As more projects aim to disseminate information and digital objects online, the impetus for both staff and the public to curate objects within personal and collective narratives is quite strong. This paper look to recognise the citizen curator, a motivated individual who spends time engaging with projects such as Wikipedia or BBC Your Paintings or initiates their own project(s), marking a turning point in the overall understanding of what it means to curate and most importantly who curates. The ability to identify these citizen curators is a direct consequence of the social web as their activities have become increasingly visible as the capacity to share, organise, aggregate and distribute information on line has increased. They exist within a spectrum of curation that incorporates seemingly ‘traditional’ forms in museums and galleries to more challenging methods of computer driven or crowd sourced curation.
The acknowledgement, understanding and incorporation such citizen curators into institutional curatorial practice opens up new and exciting areas of engagement and participation for the heritage industry. It brings a novel set of tools to the debate surrounding the involvement of larger communities in the mission and direction of a museum or gallery. As more organisations throw open their collections and allow them to be ‘set free’ on the wider web through initiatives like The Mechanical Curator from the British Library, how these digital objects are understood, collated, aggregated and ultimately curated by the wider public could be a space for collaboration and participation on an unprecedented scale. The challenge now is to place the citizen curator within an enlarged understanding of curation to further not only online or digital curation but curatorial practice as a whole." ... [LINK]
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Question to ,Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker: Can you tell us about the process of curation? Where do you begin? How do you know it's "complete?"
JO-ANNE BIRNIE DANZKER: For much of my professional life, I thought of curating as having a beginning (an idea or a passion that insisted on being realized); a process (research, extended conversations with the artists); and a denouement or culmination (the exhibition, its accompanying publication, and its reception by the public and the press). Because of this drive towards denouement, and the desire to produce a “definitive” interpretation of the subject, it would be rare for me to undertake a second exhibition, or a third, with the same artist or artists. In recent years, however, I have come to understand curating and my own role in a very different manner. I now see curatorial projects as conversations that begin long before an exhibition, and continue long after an exhibition closes. In other words, my perception of my role has changed dramatically. Curating for me is now never “complete.”...
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REFERENCES
• V&A on Curatorship ... Click Here
• Citizen Curator: discover Leith's artistic heritage ... video ... Click Here• Washington Post: Citizen Curators' Two Cents: Worth Every Penny ... Click Here
• “Never Heard of ‘Em”: Why Citizen Curators (not Daddy’s Money) Should Decide Who Gets to Be an Artist ... Click Here
• A GOOGLEsearch: ... Click Here
• CITIZEN CURATOR ON FACEbook ... https://www.facebook.com/Citizen-Curator-241129699394700/
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