Curatorial Activism

 

Jonathan Lubin                                                                                   March 10, 2024

Activist,Interlop & Pranksters Spring 2024                                       Doris Cacoilo

 

                                                Towards a Curatorial Activism

 

“Despite the decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism and theorizing, the ‘majority’ continues to be defined as white, Euro-American, heterosexual.”

Despite the world changing we are currently witnessing a look at the definition white supremacy regarding Eurocentric behaviors. It’s a change worth debating about because they believe most of everything made is because of the white man which is not true it is all men. Defining the postcolonial decade off of one race is an irrational output and should be changed.

“What’s even more disturbing is that these mainstream master narratives of art, in which large constituencies of people are ghettoized and excluded from the big-white-boy narrative.”

Mainstream art has many equivalents, and it all depends on where it came from. Most ideas in our modern generation come from the ghetto and idealistically it’s harder to be part of the art culture without any type of ghetto background from a man’s standpoint. The big white boy narrative is just a childish statement used to catch the audience.

“‘There are no women equivalents for Rembrandt, Delacroix or Cézanne, Picasso or Matisse”

Cultural Activism is justice for the artwork and community of artist pushing for change in equality and earthly compromise for the structures we have learned and built within the decade. The best way to improve art is to find more art and people willing to share their creativity. Creativity is a compound of life and behaviors what people feel can be illustrated through art and expanded on a wide range of surfaces.

“As a hegemonic discourse, the current art system privileges white male creativity to the exclusion of everyone else.”