Review: Green Hour: “The Habitat Interface: Curatorial Work for Slippery Intelligence” (Dr. Anna-Sophie Springer)

How can artistic curatorial practices intervene in well-established museum infrastructures, thought patterns, practices? How can we unsettle what we think we know and who we are through innovative installations and exhibition practices? In her presentation, Anna-Sophie Springer took her audience to the natural science museum to explore what national history collections tell us about the precarious world we live in today, and how innovative curatorial practices can help visitors recognize the colonial-curatorial infrastructures that have shaped the relationships between species and their surroundings in problematic, hierarchical ways. What doors are opening once we acknowledge that for a virus, the human body is just “a pond among ponds?”

written by Kirsten Twelbeck