ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to grapple with and resist the normalisation of dominant forms of curation in contemporary life. The re-evaluation of curation stems primarily from the research location at the border between cinema studies, visual culture studies and media anthropology. The chapter aims to rethink the term work in curatorial work, reinsert curation within a larger intellectual history of practical deployment of concepts at once clinical and critical, re-engage the tradition of the anthropologie du lien, and reclaim the clinical genealogy of curation by inserting it within a history of postcolonial disorders. Teratomas onco-curation and conceptual strategy extends a certain Avant-Gardist and interventionist tendency in Mexican experimental media arts and moving-image culture. A combination of both a Deleuzian clinic and a psychoanalytical ethics of the incurable might be appropriate to carry out our works of curation amidst frankly depressed and depressing affective, aesthetic and political landscapes.
