Snaps

Curating exhibitions has often been a one-dimensional endeavor. Here, the curator Basak Senova suggests an approach that prioritizes constant feedback between artists and audience, as well as improvisation.

In this photo essay, Monia Acciari visualizes a curatorial process attempting to reconcile intimate and public absences, loss, and creativity.

As a child, our writer made mixtapes out of recorded radio shows. In this personal essay, she explains how she disobeyed the station’s official music curation.

Even at a time of fragmented digital selves, people often align with a single self-description, suppressing their multiplicities. In this essay, our author attempts to re-sample the embattled term (self-)curation, in search of its supposed emancipatory potential.

What happens when curation resists any form of guidance? For Rebecca Salvadori, video artist and artistic co-curator of Norient Festival 2022, this led to a silent rush of creativity. A claim for positive disorientation.

How can we decentralise the power of curatorial spaces? According to our writer, we need to take into account irrationality as a creative process.

How does sound shape visual perception in a movie? Watching «Memoria» by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film scholar Sulgi Lie is shaken by a heavy bass that has no visible source.

A portrait of Montréal’s diverse music scenes, their global connections and historical roots; and an exploration of the effects of gentrification.