Utopian Display: Geopolitiche curatoriali – Marco Scotini's Essay Collection on Curatorial Practice

Marco Scotini curates the volume 'Utopian Display. Geopolitiche curatoriali', published by Quodlibet in 2019. The book collects fifteen essays that examine curatorial practice through a geopolitical lens, questioning the socio-institutional conditions of art production, exhibition, and sharing in contemporary societies. The essays are organized into three sections: institutions (theory and practice), inclusion and exclusion, and history and memory. Contributors include Anselm Franke, Ute Meta Bauer, Hou Hanru, Vasif Kortun, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Geeta Kapur, Gerardo Mosquera, Tina Sherwell, the collective What, How & For Whom (WHW), Charles Esche, Simon Njami, Rasha Salti, Andrea Giunta, Miguel A. López, and Carol Yinghua Lu. Key themes include the museum as a site of transformation, the dialectic of integration and exclusion, the role of education, and the need for interdisciplinary approaches. The volume is part of the NABA Insights series edited by Italo Rota and Guido Tattoni, stemming from seminars at NABA since 2003. The book aims to foster critical discourse on curatorial display and geopolitics, advocating for a non-Western, multicultural perspective on art.