ABSTRACT
The term ‘curator’ obviously encompasses a broad spectrum of practices. Like all disciplines the activity of curating is continually being redefined. This is a process that is pushed, challenged and accelerated in correspondence with artists and various sites both within and beyond the gallery. It seems almost too obvious to state that art and anthropology continue to share a discursive space and a common concern with human existence, creativity and social organization. The notion of un-learning accords with current thought about the relationship between art and anthropology, rooted in educational philosophy rather than ethnography. There can be no invention without convention, else it would be meaningless. And vice versa, there can be no convention without invention, for how else could it arise save from past improvisation? In life, conventions are never given but are the hard-won and always provisional outcomes of incessant and never wholly successful attempts to make oneself understand.
