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Curatorial Reimaginings

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At least two decades into the ‘curatorial turn’, and after successive declarations about the ‘post-curatorial’, the ‘para-curatorial’ and the curator’s mutation into artist (or vice versa), the field we share as curators, researchers, activists and artists of different generations and different experiences continues to transform. While decolonial initiatives, eco-critical awareness and social justice claims may be foregrounded as never before, these sit alongside public sector cuts, unprecedented professional precarity and exhausting ‘culture wars’. This conference, which took place in Novemb...

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Plenary Roundtable 28.11.2025 1:00:48

This concluding plenary roundtable brought together individuals at different stages of their careers to reflect on some of the wider issues around curatorial practice over the last years. Thinking specifically about curating in the wake of the momentous events of 2020-21 and in the context of the present political climate, the panel considered the possibilities for the fut...

Panel: Festival Futures 28.11.2025 44:07

This panel discussion brought together representatives from four UK organisations who are curating contemporary visual art in a festival format and has been convened by Liverpool Biennial as part of an ongoing investigation into the future viability and sustainability of the festival format in the visual arts. The panellists discuss the positives of delivering for ‘the moment’ and h...

Welcome, Drafts and Rapid-Fire Presentations 28.11.2025 1:19:52

Opening words from Martin Myrone, Jessica Wan, Cicely Robinson, Rhona Sword and Lauren Craig. These are followed by  Drafts , a series of recitations from disabled and/or migrant curators that focus on the concept of ‘gut knowledge’, as a way of doing and thinking which relies on trust, intuition and flexibility (within a Disability social model) – evidencing how the curatorial in itself...