praxis: texts, lectures/panels, interviews, podcasts and video links featuring my thinking and approach.
Curating People, Institutions and Doing the Work
Performing Borders, 2022
teresa cisneros in conversation with Marquard Smith on what curating as a working practice means and what it has evolved into working between curating and administrating. you can find the conversation here.
People as Infrastructures of Museum Making
CIMAM, 2023
lecture on how institutions are designed by those that administrate them with little regard to their responsibility to audiences. you can find the lecture here.
Instituir con Cuidado (Instituting with Care)
TEA Tenerife, 2021
lecture for museum and cultural attendees considering how forms of care play a role in how to institute considering what care means from space to space. you can find the lecture here.
Enlazar Nuestro Arte
Vogue México y Latinoamérica, 2022
practicing as a Latinx curator in London post covid-19 and challenging museum systems to become fit for purpose in the 21st century.
Undoing the institution: (a person at a time)
@erg, 2021
lecture and conversation challenging how to rethink institution making and personal
responsibility. organized by erg in Brussels, HDK–Valand in Göteborg and ISBA in Besançon with the support of Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Grant. you can find the lecture here.
People, policy and power: diversifying museums and culture
For Arts’ Sake, 2020
conversation about what museums are really for and what people who work there really do an interview/conversation on addressing the challenge to making cultural institutions representative of the cities they are located in. you can find the episode here.
Department of Art MFA Lectures
Goldsmiths College, 2019 – 2020
lecture and conversation on curatorial and administrative practices, in relation to creating new forms of institutions for engaging with more ethical and equitable ways. you can find the lecture here.
Tomando la Temperatura
Editorial Concreta, 2021
interview on practices of care within cultural practices and institutional administration. you can find the interview here.
Afterword for Decolonizing the Curriculum, the Museum and the Mind
Smith M., Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2020
the book tries to identify where we’re at and where we might be going vis-à-vis the idea of decolonising. you can find the book here.
Curating Institutional Change: Rocking the Boat – externally driven change
DASH, 2021
short talk on how to create more accessible cultural institutions and what it takes to make this change with the challenges that it requires personal behavioural shifts. you can find the talk here.
We are all complicit in systemic oppression: What can a museum worker do?
Museums Association Conference – Brave New Worlds, 2021
lecture and panel conversation on the development of the Social Justice Curriculum at the Wellcome Collection. you can find the lecture and panel conversation here.
Chapter Contribution to Archiving Plurality: A Collaborative Process
Cargnelli A, National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), 2024
examines how inequality of representation can be addressed by providing artists with the tools to directly shape how they would like to be remembered. you can find the publication here.
