Curator

Curators Under Censorship

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:

School as a Function of Empire assembles student and alumni work to create space for institutional critique and speculation, document student activism, and reflect on SAIC and AlC’s complicities in violence both abroad and to its own community. This show is organized in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation by “Curators Under Censorship,” a community collective composed of current students, faculty, and alumni. As an anti-institutional outlet inside the very institution it critiques, this show has struggled with administrative suppression and censorship; you will not experience the originally proposed show within SAIC’s walls. In this space, we collectively yearn for justice as we analyze, deconstruct, and imagine alternatives to the institutional status quo.
This exhibition displays work that functions on several levels: engaging and reckoning with the ongoing genocide in Palestine and global state violence; addressing the continued scholasticide and epistem-icide perpetrated by western academic institutions; diagnosing and demonstrating (SAIC as implicated in imperial systems; processing such complicities via critique and reflection; and imagining futures where liberatory artistic creation overcomes institutional order.