Rehearsals for Curating Reversals
[17] For Beatrice von Bismarck, exhibitions are constellations of objects, entities, and subjects, all with particular histories that, when set in relation, become assemblages and assemblies. Curating could be considered an actor or actant in this dynamic constellation and the curator only one part of this assembly. Von Bismarck challenges curators to think beyond the end-goals of display and to erode any residual boundaries between subjects and objects as constituted through the modern period. Curators are operating within the constellation as part of the collective. The exhibition in this context emerges also as an actant, woven into its own labour of making connections. See Exhibition as Collective.