Curatorship students reflect on a new ethics of curatorial practice in museums

Museum ethics are seemingly fixed. However, with knowledge and socio-political conditions in constant flux, museums and ethical relations are also changing with the boundaries of collaboration, cooperation and exchange constantly changing.

In three workshop sessions a group of students from the Centre for Curating the Archive at Cape Town University and the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro have been collectively thinking about new ethics in relation to curatorial praxis in museum settings today and into the future.

In this dialogue the students will talk about their workshop on new forms of multifaceted understandings of museum ethics. What kind of ethical collaborations are possible between artists, communities, curators and museums? What does a curatorial practice based on relationality look like in practice and how can collective action transform the museum?

This dialogue forms part of a research workshop New Ethics, New Museums.

Watch a live streaming of the event on Mon, 13 June 2022 (07:00 pm – 8:30 pm). 

Participants:
Nilo Mattos de Almeida
Voni Baloyi
André Onofre Limírio Chaves
Amanda Thomaz Cavalcanti
Samuel Jordan
Guilherme de Almeida Machado
Seth Kriger
Katlego Diseko
Fernanda Pires Santos
Larissa Machado Moisés
Khumo Magano

Coordination: 
Samie Blasingame
Clare Butcher
Paulo Victor Catharino Gitsin
Duane Jethro
Thaís Mayumi Pinheiro