Curatorial Playground expands on the notion of curatorship as research method and practice. It uses play to think and create together and to investigate the generative capacity to theorise, imagine and speculate in and with the public. The session invites us to employ childhood games as viable and productive models for knowledge production, and, as a result, explore the possibility of (childhood) laughter, humour and pleasure as radical curatorial strategies.

By exploring alternative and multiple forms of exhibition making, we will discern what is possible for curatorial epistemologies and what disobedient curatorial practice opens up by way of meaning-making. The session is open to participants from different disciplines to foster a cross-disciplinary gathering where we can operate otherwise as a way to create futures that incorporate and prioritise our own ways of being and knowing. The session is open to those who do not have curatorial or visual cultural experience.