the more thoughtful, deliberate and contextual the curation is, the more labour is involved
curators and art directors have to be incredibly intentional with the narratives they’re weaving through objects/media
but essentially to be a curator is just to have taste, amateurs acts of curational labour go uncompensated constantly eg online
should some curators be more highly praised/paid for having a particular taste?
who discerns whose taste is ‘discerning’?
with increase of automated, passive ‘curation’ through machine learning, ‘tastes’ are homogenized and non-specific, to look actively through a particular lens you’ve hand-crafted is to resist this automisation of culture

“intertextuality as labour,”, cultural labour/meaning-making labour of marginalised ppl, queer ppl, “labours of transformative transtextuality” quickref#^9b55b2

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“for John Langshaw Austin a performative refers to a particular class of speech. An utterance is performative when it does what it says: “the issuing of the utterance is the performing of an action” (1975)”

“the non-performative does not “fail to act” because of conditions that are external to the speech act: rather, it “works” because it fails to bring about what it names”

“to track what texts do, we need to follow them around. If texts circulate as documents or objects within public culture, then our task is to follow them, to see how they move as well as how they get stuck. So rather than just looking at university documentation on diversity for what it says, although I do this, as close readings are important and necessary, I also ask what they do, in part by talking to practitioners who use these documents to support their actions.”

Resources

The Nonperformativity of Antiracism by Sara Ahmed

accessibility

see a11y for digital accessibility

open access publication

push for access to prior knowledges, prior research, current scientific consensus
open access isn’t always equitable and often requires authors to pay for it

Green Open Access is usually free and has licensing dictated by publisher
Gold Open Access incurs an Article Processing Charge (APC) - extortinate prices, published on an open licence (usually CC BY), but some venues only use this kind

some good irony, an article on open access publishing ending up behind a registration wall

Resources

https://arts.ac.libguides.com/scholcomm/payingforopenaccess

curation for the public

Mentions

“This practice of professional sorting and cataloging is explicitly meant for the larger community—curation for the public. Museum and library collections may be privately owned, but are a part of the general commons; they are resources for a collective.” - (Lui, 2015)
“Curation therefore encompasses practices of sorting, classifying, and labeling for the purposes of organization and display” - (Lui, 2015)
“If knowledge is understood to be the resource that these institutions provide then, as Hooper-Greenhill (1992) contends, the role of the curator is to shape that knowledge for the general public, through the creation of accessible object categories” - any group curation needs to be interfaceable?? - (Lui, 2015)