Being-With
<p>This edition of On-Curating.org places ontological and political perspectives on notions of community at the centre of its debate. We believe that such an explicit discussion of community on a theoretical level is an urgent requirement in the context of ‘curating’ since cultural articulations always implicitly or explicitly address and produce communities. It was Jacques Rancière in particular who in <em>The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible</em> pointed out the importance of access to visibility and audibility since these are what enables or prevents access to a community. “The distribution of the sensible makes visible who can participate in the communal according to what he does. A particular activity determines thus who is and is not capable of being communal.” In his perspective, aesthetics, visibility and politics are causally linked…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter
Editors: Elke Bippus, Jörg Huber, Dorothee Richter
Contributors: Thomas Bedorf, Elke Bippus, Jörn Etzold, Lars Gertenbach, Jörg Huber, Michaela Melián, Roberto Nigro, Dorothee Richter, Ruth Sonderegger
Translators: Benjamin Marius Schmid
Proofreader: Siri Peyer, Dorothee Richter
Designer: Michel Fernández, Megan Hall
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904