Made by Jane Trowell on behalf of Platform for a talk and discussion with students on the MA Curating, at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, UK. 29th March 2017

1. The Politics of Curating
Jane Trowell, Platform

2. Some questions
• What are the politics of curating
• What are the politics of your curating?
• Who or what does your curatorship serve?
• Whose aesthetics or what aesthetic values do you
promote?
• How does curatorship relate to the ecological
justice crisis we are facing?
• How do you navigate and position yourself…
inside, outside, inside-outside

3. inside
Art Monthly, March 2010

4. C Words
Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture
Arnolfini, Bristol, 2009
50 days of events, commissions,
performances, artworks in the run-up
to COP 15

6. Arnolfini, main gallery, ‘C Words’

7. Low carbon

8. op
Institute for the Art & Practice
Of Dissent at Home

9. Virtual Migrants
• http://www.platformlondon

10. Ackroyd & Harvey,
Walking Forest
Trapese Collective

11. African Writers Abroad - poets
Dorothea Smartt & Sai Murray

12. Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination,
Become the Bike Bloc

13. Inside and outside?

14. And While London Burns, 2006
an opera for one

15. Commissioned from UHC Collective by Platform

16. Remember Saro-Wiwa, 2005

18. Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni 9,
by Sokari Douglas Camp, commissioned by Platform

19. Battle Bus, summer 2015,
collaboration with
Peckham Platform
Action Saro-Wiwa, 2015
20th anniversary

20. Transporting the Bus
from UK to Nigeria,
Sept 2015

21. 20th
anniversary
events

22. Bus seized by customs in Lagos, Oct 2015.
Nnimmo Bassey & Celestine AkpoBari
Ogoni campaigners, at National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria, 2016

23. Licence to Spill, 2010 to now
Liberate Tate, Tate Britain Summer Party, 2010

24. Liberate Tate, ‘Bobbi & Terri’ spill, inside Tate Britain Summer Party, 2010

26. Tate Ethics Committee meeting - redacted minutes sent as a result of FOIA request

27. Art Monthly, Mar 2015

30. Tate’s figures revealing BP’s sponsorship figures,
as a result of FOIA request

31. Liberate Tate, Hidden Figures, 2014

32. Fossil Funds Free, 2015 ongoing
Sign the pledge!

33. 3-day festival inside Tate Modern

34. Some questions
• What are the politics of curating
• What are the politics of your curating?
• Who or what does your curatorship serve?
• Whose aesthetics or what aesthetic values do you
promote?
• How does curatorship relate to the ecological
justice crisis we are facing?
• How do you navigate and position yourself…
inside, outside, inside-outside