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The Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC) is a hub for teaching, learning, and sharing information focused on museums and environmental and social justice. We're located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
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1 week left to see The Air of the Now and Gone at CUAG. Curated by @kirstymrobertson.bsky.social and @smithsarah.bsky.social.

Download the exhibition publication and see images from the exhibition on our website : sustainablecurating.ca/exhibitions-...
The Air of the Now and Gone is printed in large blue text on a pink background.
April 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Our March newsletter is out! Active participants of the CSC have been in the news quite a lot since our last newsletter and this month we focus on sharing their exciting work.

Check it out and if you haven't already, sign up for our mailing list:
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March 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Check out our interview with active CSC participant Imogen Clendinning, the artist and researcher who built and designed Archivetemporal, the solar-powered website and archive for our recent project.

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"Increasingly, museums and galleries in Canada are being called on to lessen the environmental impacts of their operations, and these conversations extend to the digital footprint of museum work. My PhD research drew me to the fields of environmental media and critical infrastructure studies, and I began to dream of a digital archive that did not rely on cloud storage and was powered by renewable energy. Such an archive could be a useful alternative for arts groups that are committed to lessening the environmental impacts of their digital presence."
February 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Season 1 of the Ecologies in Practice podcast has now launched! The podcast brings together thinkers, makers, and doers from art, science, theory, and practice around pressing environmental issues.

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Ecologies in Practice Water theme logo. "Ecologies" in light blue text inside a darker blue voice bubble.
February 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Introducing Archivetemporal.

access the solar-powered website: www.archivetemporal.com

read more about the archive: sustainablecurating.ca/intro-archiv...
Archivetemporal is, much like the humble potato, defined by time as well as its material qualities, its vulnerability to disease and decay, its flexibility and its connection to the environment it inhabits. We encourage you to interact with this archive through a detemporalized lens by navigating the overlapping themes and concepts that have defined Objects as Temporal Entities. As a solar-powered website, accessing Archivetemporal depends on sunlight availability and human labour.
January 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Download the text: 'The Air of the Now and Gone,' curated by Kirsty Robertson + Sarah EK Smith. In the face of the “wicked problem” of climate change, which precludes easy solutions, how can we move forward? How can we address a crisis that prompts apathy and disconnect?

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'The Air of the Now and Gone' printed on RISO in blue on a pink background.
January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Now in Ottawa! 'The Air of the Now and Gone,' an exhibition that aims to counter apathy and complicate optimism about the future. On exhibition until May 4th.

Co-curated by @kirstymrobertson.bsky.social & @smithsarah.bsky.social

Image: Wall text in charcoal (K. Robertson)

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Exhibition Wall text in charcoal: The Air of the Now and Gone Curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E. K. Smith Featuring artists Maude Ares, Christina Battle, Erin Johnson, Colin Lyons, Caroline Monnet, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Niloufar Salimi and Hanae Utamura, and guest writers Siobhan Angus, Elaina Foley and Kristi Leora Gansworth Crisis, catastrophe and disaster abound in contemporary discussions of climate change and its impacts. Such sentiments are so pervasive that we seem to have tipped into what author Cal Flyn describes as a "'yearning for the apocalypse." Given the extent of the damage, a slide into apathy and despair seems inevitable, while calls for hope offer only an empty retort. Are there alternatives? 'Thank You," the poem by Ross Gay that gives this exhibition its title, reminds us we are all connected to each other and to the natural world. The Air of the Now and Gone explores our kinship with the environment, seeking to engage other respon&es, including empathy, wonder, joy, persistence, interdependence, attentiveness, connection and flourishing. Our goal as curators is to resist naivete, and to move beyond hope to engender radical engagement. The artists featured in the exhibition aim to counter apathy and complicate optimism about the future. Their works ask visitors to refuse to look away from the wicked problem of climate change while engaging a spectrum of resonant and unexpected emotional responses.
January 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Detail of stencil using hand made ink on exhibition wall. Stencil reads: A project by The Centre for Sustainable Curating
January 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Check out the virtual launch event for Mobilizing Museum Minerals, a special, double issue of 'Museum & Society' Journal co-edited by CSC Post-Doctoral Fellow Camille-Mary Sharp.

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Mobilizing Museum Minerals Virtual Launch Event. Join us for a roundtable discussion celebrating the publication of the November special issue of Museum and Society. Please register for the Zoom link. Jan. 28, 2025 / 11am ET / 4pm BST Logo for the CSC: Centre for Sustainable Curating
January 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM