Here, not. Border thinking in contemporary curating: Dialogic research on arts and culture in Helsinki.

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School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Master's thesis
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2024

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artmed

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Taiteen ja median maisteriohjelma

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en

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64 + 95

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The thesis presents border thinking as a critical methodology for independent and grass-root curatorial practice. Thinking with borders promotes an awareness of how global processes of space modification and exclusion appear in artistic and curatorial work via its linguistic registers, work structures, and the engagement with different identities and forms of belonging. Thereby, the thesis investigates how border thinking is reflected in the spatial, visual, written, affective, and relational languages of cultural production. Such analysis reckons with the thresholds held within all artistic work. Hence, the methodology advocates for a variety of site-specific work, as well as fostering diverse and critical representation. Thinking with borders is a work of caring and allowing for specificity and otherness. The aim is to nurture a constellation of accessible and inclusive spaces, which would develop from wider and richer participation. The thesis argues that border thinking supports processes of recognition in the social fabric of a cultural production, and it holds a potential for change within the different experiences of its locality and its current infrastructures. The research develops in conversation with more than twenty Finland-based practices and initiatives and alongside the making of the book Here, Not. Dialogues on art and the making of here (attached to the thesis in appendix). The publication is an edited collection featuring the author’s writing, seven interviews with Helsinki-based practitioners, two photographic inserts, and an opinion piece. Through artistic production, exhibition making, community building, and artistic research, the contributors to the book provide strategies and methods to respond to and act within their urban and professional infrastructures, creating alternative places of belonging, dialogue, and navigation.

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Costantin, Patrizia

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Costantin, Patrizia

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curating, border thinking, contemporary art, placemaking, participation, access

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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202406234676

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