ABSTRACT
In this conversation, curators Katie Dyer and Lizzie Muller consider how the relationship between objects and energies reveals resonances across disciplines in contemporary exhibitions. They consider three exhibitions that they have curated (both independently and collaboratively) using the collection of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, which contains transnational scientific, technological, design and craft objects spanning millennia. They consider how their co-curated exhibition Human non Human aimed to “materialise” ideas from new materialist philosophy, and to bring many different kinds of knowledge into dialogue. They conclude by discussing audience responses to this exhibition and the idea of human emotion as the most powerful “energy” to consider in their curatorial process.
