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What then if we hear “I don’t know” not as a declaration of ignorance but rather as an appeal for intimacy? This kind of ‘not knowing’ has a consistency that slips through the fingers, and clings to them at the same time. Not knowing is like being honeyed. [1]
I am constantly preoccupied with not knowing. There are so many things I don’t know that I decided to dedicate an exhibition to them. As a curator, I feel that my job is to know, although anyone who has organised an exhibition or a public moment of any kind will agree that most of the time you don’t really know until the very last moment. In a way, I would say that not knowing is at the heart of making an exhibition, or making anything creative, anything from scratch, really. We often don’t know, perhaps more often than we would like to admit. And most of the time our natural reflex would be to hide, to cover up the not knowing. We learn from a very early age that not knowing is not something to be proud...More
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What then if we hear “I don’t know” not as a declaration of ignorance but rather as an appeal for intimacy? This kind of ‘not knowing’ has a consistency that slips through the fingers, and clings to them at the same time. Not knowing is like being honeyed. [1]
I am constantly preoccupied with not knowing. There are so many things I don’t know that I decided to dedicate an exhibition to them. As a curator, I feel that my job is to know, although anyone who has organised an exhibition or a public moment of any kind will agree that most of the time you don’t really know until the very last moment. In a way, I would say that not knowing is at the heart of making an exhibition, or making anything creative, anything from scratch, really. We often don’t know, perhaps more often than we would like to admit. And most of the time our natural reflex would be to hide, to cover up the not knowing. We learn from a very early age that not knowing is not something to be proud...More
