On the politics of language and diverse vocabularies
This sound file documents a recorded conversation on the politics of language and diverse vocabularies. We discussed words and frameworks that we want to rethink and rephrase, alongside others that have been dismissed or marginalised and that we wish to speak aloud and recognise.
What does it mean to reframe and recontextualise overrepresented languages within institutional spaces? How can we acknowledge and hold space for other meanings? These questions emerged collectively during a workshop at Tensta Konsthall in November 2025.
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CuratorLab is a one-year international curatorial course, established in 1999 as the oldest curatorial education course in Sweden and remains a platform open to everybody with curiosity to challenge and present new curatorial practices. We intend to build a group of participants with solid experience, a grounded interest and a sense of commitment in order to share a learning experience together. We meet four times per year for intensive week sessions in Stockholm, in autumn, winter, spring and early summer, including a trip, and additional monthly online meetings in-between the sessions.
CuratorLab 2025/2026 proposes an observation of curatorial practice through a series of gatherings, meetings, workshop situations, project production, historical writing and experimentation. Participants of CuratorLab will develop their own projects in close dialogue with the rest of participants, meeting professionals and observing key examples of curatorial thinking.
Institution(ing)s is a medium-scale collaboration project co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.