PIDGINIZATION AS CURATORIAL METHOD.

Author: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Editor: Steven Henry Madoff
Published by Sternberg Press
English
64 pages
11 x 18 cm
Softcover
ISBN 978-1-915609-08-3

Price: 62 lei


In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices—a space in which the boundaries between disciplines of knowledge collapse and sociopolitical, economic, ethical, and spiritual concepts and questions are renegotiated. Written as a series of powerful anecdotes, the book grounds its provocative ideas in personal, cultural, and political histories of challenge and improvisation, and argues, as Ndikung writes, that “pidginized curating is a curating that combines works, ideas, practices, and languages in resistance to canonical conventions, cultural stasis, ossified practices, dead rhythms, and singular forms.”