in curating and the educational turn

"Historically, these discussions have been peripheral to the exhibition, operating in a secondary role in relation to the display of art for public consumption. More recently, these discursive interventions and relays have become central to contemporary practice; they have now become the main event. However, these discursive productions are not only pervasive; increasingly, they are framed in terms of education, research, knowledge production and learning. Furthermore, in many instances, there is a pronounced impulse to distance these platforms from the established formats of museum education and related official cultural pedagogies."