Open AccessA Precarious Construct: The Commission As A Curatorial Mode Of Inquiry
Author(s) -
Trine Friis Sørensen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the nordic journal of aesthetics/the nordic journal of aesthetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2000-9607
pISSN - 2000-1452
DOI - 10.7146/nja.v25i52.25619
Subject(s) - project commissioning , commission , relation (database) , construct (python library) , danish , mode (computer interface) , publishing , sociology , political science , law , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , database , programming language , operating system
This article turns on a curatorial project that Trine Friis Sørensen conducted in relation to the Danish Radio Archive (the DR Archive) by commissioning two artists, Kajsa Dahlberg and Olof Olsson, to engage with the archive and produce artworks in relation to it. Focusing on the practice of commissioning rather than its outcome, the article proposes to consider commissioning as a curatorial mode of inquiry into the DR Archive and in turn asks why we commission, how the commission works and what kind of thinking the commission engenders. Drawing on Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault and in particular Jacques Derrida, this thinking with and through the practice of commissioning eventually prompts