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The Office for… Curatorial Practice as Political Act
With Maya Juracán
Welcome to The Office for… Curatorial Practice as Political Act, with a lecture by Maya Juracán proposing an immersion in curatorship as a political practice, deeply linked to activism, feminism, and collective and community resistance.
Where
Cinema
Price
Free
About the event
Based on experiences in projects such as the Biennial en Resistencia, La Revuelta, Proyecto 44 and UNFES, Maya Juracáns' lecture will explore how curatorial practice can be a tool to recover erased narratives, amplify silenced voices and build new forms of local knowledge.
We will critically review the history of art that has been written from a unitary, patriarchal, colonial and centralist perspective, to make way for a pluralistic vision where art does not only inhabit museums, but also walls, streets and bodies in struggle. The talk seeks to depatriarchalize and decolonize our gazes, understanding art as a social event, an exercise of dignity and collective memory.
Through examples, we will open spaces to think together about how to curate from enjoyment, justice and community, where the political and the poetic intertwine to imagine other ways of inhabiting the art world.
The Office for… is a new event series by OCA exploring what might be possible if the criteria of contemporary art are displaced, temporarily, by alternative frameworks.
About the host
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art is a foundation promoting contemporary art from Norway internationally. OCA is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Equality and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is the commissioner for Norway’s contribution to the visual arts section of La Biennale di Venezia.
In the autumn of 2026, the institution vil move into premises at Kunstnernes Hus.
