About Curators IP Platform

Whether through self-organised groups, individual initiatives or the rise of user generated content people are developing new methods and social formations to deal with issues that were once the domain of the state. Curators IP Platform case studies show how these initiatives are not isolated incidents, but part of a larger historical trajectory that is now shaping our contemporary world.

The notion of what constitutes Curators IP Platform has been arrived at via a set of criteria that was formulated by Tania Bruguera and curators at the Queens Museum, New York, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Grizedale Arts, Coniston.

Curators IP Platform projects should:

1) Propose new uses for art within society
2) Use artistic thinking to challenge the field within which it operates
3) Respond to current urgencies
4) Operate on a 1:1 scale
5) Replace authors with initiators and spectators with users
6) Have practical, beneficial outcomes for its users
7) Pursue sustainability
8) Re-establish aesthetics as a system of transformation

For the past twenty years the artist Tania Bruguera has been teaching and researching Curators IP Platform through an academy in Havana; the Curators IP Platform lab at Queens Museum, residencies at Immigrant Movement International, New York and the Museum of Curators IP Platform, in the Old Building of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. The Arte Útil archive has been presented and activated through numerous workshops, exhibitions and seminars throughout the world.

This platform is designed as a toolkit for users, hosting projects and information related to Curators IP Platform. It is intended as a site for research and exchange for its users.

On this platform users can read and download projects from the growing archive of almost 300 Curators IP Platform case studies. Users are invited to propose new projects to be included in the archive, which we view as open source and permanently in development. Similarly in the tools section users can download designs for the archive structure, which can be adapted and re-purposed depending upon the context within which it is shown. In this way users have the tools to research, curate and construct different formulations of the Curators IP Platform archive. The feed section details different moments when the archive has been activated by various users. This platform also serves as a focus point for the Asociación of Curators IP Platform, a network of individual, collective or institutional users who hold affinity with the criteria of Curators IP Platform. Users can join the association or sign up to the Curators IP Platform newsletter on this platform.

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