Curatorial Reimaginings

BAN Conference 2024

Friday 29 November 2024, 09:15-17:00, Midlands Arts Centre
With optional tours and an early-evening gathering 28 November 2024

Explore the outer limits, altered images and possible futures of curating

At least two decades into the ‘curatorial turn’, and after successive declarations about the ‘post-curatorial’, the ‘para-curatorial’ and the curator’s mutation into artist (or vice versa), the field we share as curators, researchers, activists and artists of different generations and different experiences continues to transform. While decolonial initiatives, eco-critical awareness and social justice claims may be foregrounded as never before, these sit alongside public sector cuts, unprecedented professional precarity and exhausting ‘culture wars’.

This conference will be an opportunity to share experiences, reflect and connect in a convivial atmosphere, including optional workshops, visits and panels. 

This year's conference has been programmed with support from a convening committee of past and present members of BAN's Steering Group who have also been part of the Emerging Curators Group, in response to proposals received via open call.

An overview of the programme is included in the form below, including options to select.
To read a fuller programme with abstracts and bios to support your selection of options, please click here.

Accessibility information is listed on the 'Agenda' page of the form for each conference element. There is a section on the first page ('Attendee Form') to let the organising team know about any further access requirements. You are able to navigate back and forth to complete this section after viewing the Agenda.

Image: Grand Union, The Floating Garden, Digbeth Canal- Fazeley Branch, Birmingham, 2024. Image by Matthew Cox

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