Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating

Title: Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
Published by: Sternberg Press, London
Release Date: 2023
Contributors: Bonaventure SOH, Bejeng NDIKUNG
Genre: theory / elmélet
Pages: 64
ISBN13: 978-1-915609-08-3

4900 HUF

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.”