Pidginization as Curatorial Method

By Bonaventure Soh Beje Ndikung | Sternberg Press (2023)

A new vision for activist curatorial practice.

In Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes, renowned curator and director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes Pidgin languages as expressions of resistance to settler colonialism and pidginization as a way to approach curating (and the world), creating new spaces for encounter, knowledge, and pluralities. Deftly deploying the thinking, writing, and rhythmic beat of musicians, philosophers, linguists, poets, and novelists, Ndikung offers a new vision for activist curatorial practice and beyond. This is the third volume of the series Thoughts on Curating, edited by Steven Henry Madoff.

Series Overview: A series of single-essay publications by some of the world’s leading voices in curatorial practice and theory today. Edited by Steven Henry Madoff, founder of the master’s program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York.