Lisa Gaupp shares the assumptions and / or dominant ideologies that shape her research. This is part of her work as a core member of the AHRC funded research network, Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the Role of Arts and Cultural Management based at Queen's University Belfast (PI Victoria Durrer) in partnership with Heilbronn University (Co-I Raphaela Henze). www.managingculture.net

1. Normalizing Cultural Diversity –
Curatorial and political practices
Dr. Lisa Gaupp
Queen's University Belfast
APRIL 6TH – 7TH 2017
„Dominant Ideologies: Examining Institutions,
Habits and Terminology in the Profession“

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AGENDA
Normalizing Cultural Diversity –
Curatorial and political practices
1 Researching Cultural Diversity
2 German Cultural Policies
3 Transnational Curatorial Practices

3. Diversity
in the Arts
Intersectional
Diversity
Cultural
Diversity
Mediating
Diversity
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Researching Cultural Diversity
§ Critique of Eurocentrism § Deconstruction of Power Discourses

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AGENDA
Normalizing Cultural Diversity –
Curatorial and political practices
1 Researching Cultural Diversity
2 German Cultural Policies
3 Transnational Curatorial Practices

5. German Cultural Policies
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§ traditional, nation-based concepts of culture, which foster differences between a
homogenous “minority” and a homogenous “host society”
Inter-/Multiculturalism

6. German Cultural Policies
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§ traditional, nation-based concepts of culture, which foster differences between a
homogenous “minority” and a homogenous “host society”
Inter-/Multiculturalism
Transculturality/Post-Migrancy
§ focus on the promotion of cultural inclusion, mediation and diversity; deconstruction of
differences; against a reduction to national or ethnic backgrounds; immigration as a
dynamic precondition to today’s societies

7. German Cultural Policies
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Cultural politics should
§ adapt to the realities of today’s post-
migrant social processes.
§ center on interactions, crossroads and
(contradictory) commonalities, without
emphasizing segregating tendencies.

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AGENDA
Normalizing Cultural Diversity –
Curatorial and political practices
1 Researching Cultural Diversity
2 German Cultural Policies
3 Transnational Curatorial Practices

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§ „The biggest challenge for
the arts is an increasing
nationalism in all matters.
Due to the financial crisis,
the national funding bodies
insist more and more on
national production –
foreign participation is of
course welcome in financial
terms, but there is less
interest in co-financing new
works by non-resident-
artists.”
(Kaup-Hasler 2012)
Transnational Curatorial Practices
Structures

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Esthetics
§ „confronted with a strong
Eurocentrism in the field in
which works from other
continents get easily
labeled either as ‚outdated’
in comparism to the
European development or
as ‚too specific’ to be
presented next to European
works without also creating
access to their ‚original’
local context“ (Husemann
2012: 276f.)
Transnational Curatorial Practices
§ „The biggest challenge for
the arts is an increasing
nationalism in all matters.
Due to the financial crisis,
the national funding bodies
insist more and more on
national production –
foreign participation is of
course welcome in financial
terms, but there is less
interest in co-financing new
works by non-resident-
artists.” (Kaup-Hasler
2012)
Structures

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Concepts
§ „do we have to consider
hybridity as the ultimate and
inexorable condition of all
postcolonial
subjectivities?“ (Amīn
2010: 7)
Transcultural Diversity
Transnational Curatorial Practices
§ „The biggest challenge for
the arts is an increasing
nationalism in all matters.
Due to the financial crisis,
the national funding bodies
insist more and more on
national production –
foreign participation is of
course welcome in financial
terms, but there is less
interest in co-financing new
works by non-resident-
artists.”
(Kaup-Hasler 2012)
§ „confronted with a strong
Eurocentrism in the field in
which works from other
continents get easily
labeled either as ‚outdated’
in comparism to the
European development or
as ‚too specific’ to be
presented next to European
works without also creating
access to their ‚original’
local context“ (Husemann
2012: 276f.)
Structures Esthetics