ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the emotional labour at the heart of certain curatorial practices. It explores how the burden and anxiety of linear time – the crushing feeling that time is always running out, just as one is trying to unpick time as an idea or concept for creative labour – rubs up against gendered experiences of cyclical time. The chapter focuses on a curatorial methodology informed by grief, underpinned by the experience of friendship and a duty of care. Amid the shock and grief, however, the song choice was forgotten and we played something else. Operating in a space of friendship, love and acknowledgement of grief impacted on how the outcome was received. In many ways, re-presenting Katthy Cavaliere's work insisted on an element of co-authorship as intrinsic to the curatorial methodology that was unfolding. A large part of the 'freeing' was in how Katthy's project contested the personal and professional boundaries one might normally erect through curatorial labour.
