Future horizons — Societies at risk and the possibilities of infrastructures: Research on curatorial and cross-disciplinary practices
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2024
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Taiteen ja median maisteriohjelma
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en
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73
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This thesis introduces the experience of the present as one in which society faces significant risks amid an exponentially growing uncertain world. In response, it presents future-oriented thinking as a complex, branching, and structural method for reconfiguring thought and practice. As such, it examines infrastructure through various interpretations and operational modes — both physical and abstract — ranging from capitalist mechanisms to the contemporary art sector. It examines the potential of understanding and engaging with infrastructures as sites of affect and effect, and explores what possibilities and forms they can enable. The research builds on the theoretical framework outlined and poses the art sector as a ‘society at risk.’ Through three case studies that have adopted an expanding, future-oriented practice that exemplify experimental system-thinking within the art sector and highlight the urgency for the sector to reconfigure its organisation and practice. This is explored through the lens of the curatorial, the infrastructural and the systemic as means to amplify future possibility and ways of understanding through cross-disciplinary exchange. By implementing and expanding artistic production, program making, relationship building, and artistic research, these initiatives provide methods and strategies to respond and act within their potential by fostering future agency and novel values while navigating towards a future horizon. A central argument is that achieving organisational change requires fostering relationships within, between, and among actors and fields of thought and practice, guided by a shared mission. As a bold proposal, this thesis invites others to risk their certainties by engaging with other forms of thought and practices that emerge from relationalities that transcend borders and disciplines, akin to various crises faced.Description
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el Baroni, BassamThesis advisor
el Baroni, BassamKeywords
curating, cross-disciplinarity, collaborative practice, contemporary art, ecology, finance, infrastructure, institution