Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
| Author | Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9781915609083 |
| Idea Code | 23163 |
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices—a space in which the boundaries between disciplines of knowledge collapse and sociopolitical, economic, ethical, and spiritual concepts and questions are renegotiated. Written as a series of powerful anecdotes, the book grounds its provocative ideas in personal, cultural, and political histories of challenge and improvisation, and argues, as Ndikung writes, that “pidginized curating is a curating that combines works, ideas, practices, and languages in resistance to canonical conventions, cultural stasis, ossified practices, dead rhythms, and singular forms.”
| 64 p, no ills, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English |
Sternberg Press
