Embodied Curating

Abstract What is the importance of a “body” in the curatorial practice and discourse? How to acknowledge bodies as “epistemic agents” in the process of making art public? Expanding on Beatrice von Bismarck's notion of the curatorial coming-together in public as a constellation, this text is an outline to formulate embodied curating as a relationally attuned, felt-sense, responsible curatorial approach that could resonate in today's complex social and political lifeworlds. Applying philosophical, somatic and feminist socio-political frameworks in different registers such as Karen Barad's agential realism, Resmaa Menakem's Somatic Abolitionism, and Minna Salami's Sensuous Knowledge, I reflect the urgency to acknowledge the intra-active, situated nature of bodies becoming public in art and culture in order to make more attuned worlds.