Collaborative curatorial practices linked to the territory

Abstract

This research analyzes four types of prototypical curatorial practices developed in rural, private and public institutions of the Spanish geography, whose criteria share the subordination to the needs of the territory and its people through artistic production and dissemination. The selected case studies are: Genalguacil Pueblo Museo, in the Serranía de Ronda de Málaga; The Grand Tour of the Nau Côclea de Camallera, in Girona; the TV program Territori Contemporani de Vallès Oriental Televisió in Granollers, and the Cerezales Antonino and Cinia de Cerezales del Condado Foundation, in León. These spaces develop a permeable and integrating, mediating curatorial work, with deep roots in a sustainable, socially committed art and linked to a diversity of emancipatory social practices disclosed under the term of collaborative or participatory artistic practices. Its distinctive features end up identifying a type of curatorship that operates with different intensity and at different speeds in each case, because it adapts to the needs and idiosyncratic characteristics of the inhabitants and agents of its territory, acting accordingly. They are all representative of a certain collaborative curatorship that has been resolved through the introduction of collaborative work perspectives within the curatorial function.