The Un/chrono/Logical timeline method as a curatorial approach for critical fabulation imbued in personal histories and multimodality (upcycling the master's tools)

Abstract

The Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline is a collaborative engagement that manifests itself simultaneously as a material object, a durational process, a pedagogical presence and an artistic research method. It invites participants to bring together their personal experiences, memories, and desires of arts education into conversation with recorded histories of art. The Un/chrono/Logical Timeline attends to Walter Mignolo’s metaphorical colonial wound; it suggests a psychic dimension to the violence of coloniality, which demands responses towards reparation. The Un/chrono/logical Timeline facilitates layered juxtapositions, disobedience, and a refusal to adhere to linearity. It is activated through conversation complemented by a sensory multimodal experience. The Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline caters to curatorial practice enshrined in critical questions and the search for practical answers. It allows new complex narratives to be forged as we engage the extended premises of still-to-be-imagined curatorial practices.