Curating in an ecological framework through sensuous pedagogy

Abstract

In this article, I take up the educational turn in curating and recontextualize it in my current curatorial practice that seeks to cultivate ecological awareness in its participants, defined as developing relationships between human and other-than-human beings through a process of sensuous pedagogy. With a post-qualitative approach, I analyse my own working process of curating the exhibition Habitat at Agder Kunstsenter in Kristiansand, Norway, in 2022. Partly taking place in the nature park Lista and in the city of Kristiansand, I made a framework for the exhibition that questions and explores our notions of inhabitation for both human and more-than-human beings. As one of the specific projects in the Habitat programme, I further explore the process of curating the participatory performance work CITY MATTERS with artist Tora Balslev. It is a personal account of how we experienced and created sensuous pedagogy between human and more-than-human beings in Kristiansand.