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  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9783956795848
  • Imprint: STERNBERG PRESS
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $32.99

Unannounced Voices

Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions



In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked: What is our future and whose voices will announce it? These can only be situated voices, each with its own body and space, formed through dialogue within their own communities and in reaction and resistance to dominant discourses. Museum director, curator, and writer Zdenka Badovinac argues that these situated voices of people, artworks, and exhibitions, rooted in the local, can bring incisive, productive change. The call of these voices, in rethinking art, curation, and institutions, is the subject of this powerful essay.

Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.

In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked: What is our future and whose voices will announce it? These can only be situated voices, each with its own body and space, formed through dialogue within their own communities and in reaction and resistance to dominant discourses. Museum director, curator, and writer Zdenka Badovinac argues that these situated voices of people, artworks, and exhibitions, rooted in the local, can bring incisive, productive change. The call of these voices, in rethinking art, curation, and institutions, is the subject of this powerful essay.

  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9783956795848
  • Imprint: STERNBERG PRESS
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Unannounced Voices

"The jury recognizes Zdenka Badovinac as one of the most important and rigorous locally rooted and globally connected professionals in the field of cultural production in recent decades."—The Igor Zabel Award 2020 jury