Pidginization as Curatorial Method by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
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Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung was edited by Steven Henry Madoff and published by Sternberg Press:
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices—a space in which the boundaries between disciplines of knowledge collapse and sociopolitical, economic, ethical, and spiritual concepts and questions are renegotiated. Written as a series of powerful anecdotes, the book grounds its provocative ideas in personal, cultural, and political histories of challenge and improvisation, and argues, as Ndikung writes, that “pidginized curating is a curating that combines works, ideas, practices, and languages in resistance to canonical conventions, cultural stasis, ossified practices, dead rhythms, and singular forms.”
Designer Bardhi Haliti used Magister to typeset the book’s headers, subheaders, page headers and body text. The perfect-bound softcover has 64 pages and measures 112×178 mm.
The same typography was used for the other volumes in the “Thoughts on Curating” series, see Curating the Complex & The Open Strike by Terry Smith and Unannounced Voices by Zdenka Badovinac.
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