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We’re very excited to see an excerpt from Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities featured alongside other essential texts in Curating & Repair, newly published by 1000 Words.

If you’re in London, don’t miss the book launch at The Photographers’ Gallery:

📍 The Photographers’ Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW
🗓 12 March 2026
⏰ 6 – 8 pm

And if the excerpt leaves you wanting more, the full edition of Imperfect Solidarities is available via our website, through distributors, and at your local independent bookshops.

📘 New Book Release – Beyond Caring: Para-hosting as Curatorial Escape

What can established art institutions learn from small-scale, self-organised art spaces? In Beyond Caring: Para-hosting as Curatorial Escape, Paul O’Neill introduces para-hosting – a cooperative curatorial methodology grounded in generosity, invitation, and self-organisation, without institutional absorption.

Moving between critique, speculation, and proposition, the book rethinks host–guest relations, publicness, and power within contemporary art institutions. Para-hosting becomes a form of curatorial escape – opening transformative possibilities beyond fixed roles and entrenched institutional structures.

Part of the On the Curatorial series, this publication revisits debates around the curatorial that emerged in the early 2010s, asking how curatorial practice can respond to today’s social, political, and ecological crises. Edited by Carolina Rito, the series brings together established voices and emerging curators to develop new conceptual tools for contemporary curation.

✍️ Paul O’Neill is an Irish curator, artist, writer, and educator, and Artistic Director of PUBLICS in Helsinki – a curatorial agency, library, event space, and reading room.

Thank you to Franklin Einspruch for his deep and insightful review of “Against Morality.” Read the full piece via the link in our bio.
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It’s nearly here – the UK launch of Against Morality takes place at ICA London this Wednesday, 23 July at 7pm. Join us to celebrate the release and hear Rosanna McLaughlin in conversation with Dean Kissick. Get your tickets now via the link in bio.

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Drawing on recent exhibitions, artworks and films – as well as responses to them – McLaughlin explores the flattening effect this moral turn has had on cultural output, and the limitations it has placed on the way art is produced, presented and discussed.

In arguing against the dominance of morality in art, she opens the door to a more expansive understanding of difference, and the value of creativity, in 21st-century art making.