Curing the Curio: On Montezemolo's Metalogues, Biocartography, and Mi-lieus

Photo by Fiamma Montezemolo and José Parral, Project Perucatti, 2018. Courtesy of Magazzino..

We’ve curated three works by the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo into our Con-text-ure archive. As an exemplar of the soft methodological space between art and science, we wanted to showcase a few works that speak to the aesthetic dimensions in scientific practice, as well as the personal relations anthropologists have with artistic practice. Montezemolo challenges certain aesthetic modes of production by flipping the ethnographic gaze, collapsing another kind of map, and enlarging the tiny or disgusting. By hovering in the space between question and object, a curated mode of attention emerges. How do you curate a curator? It matters that we choose to sculpt new spaces.

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Editors' Note

Editors' Note

Fiamma Montezemolo is a worker of limits. She muses on the liminality and generative force of the between, knowing all along that edges, borders, and limits can... More

Metalogues, Biocartography, and Mi-lieus

Metalogues, Biocartography, and Mi-lieus

In his acclaimed Steps To An Ecology of Mind, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson (1999, 1) defined a Metalogue as "a conversation about some problematic subject... More