In cultural institutions in general, adopting strict structures affects the flow of work making relevance hard to achieve, and adding another layer to the reality which is already very pressing. In this regard, we ask ourselves as museum workers many questions. How do we change priorities under such hierarchical structure? How do we push for new ideas towards a welcoming museum? What are the different forms and managerial strategies that are more suitable for cultural bodies? How do we challenge the single way of institutionalization that involves less collective power?
Nadine Aranki, 2022
I have to say that choosing one single word was hard, but soon I realized that it is how we see this word in a collective and in conversation with other terms. To this end I came to work with ‘relevance’, which I saw as an umbrella term for the important glossary for my work including co-curation, museum as a home, human dignity, liberation, and conflict.
Relevance, in my opinion, is an experience full of human dignity.