As socially engaged practices grow within the curatorial field, the use of attention becomes a crucial ethical decision. How and to whom attention is given centers on concerns of visibility, belonging, and the determination of those characteristics within a community’s negotiated communicative space. Exploring Simone Weil’s ethics of attention through and alongside incarceration-focused curatorial projects, this article positions her writing as a potential framework for attentive curation. The resulting pathways found in Weil’s writing offer means of transforming the curatorial into a self-silencing act of witnessing that serves underrecognized voices. This research parses how Weilian attention redefines inquiry as the process of listening to and incorporating others’ perspectives as primary sources of knowledge. Looking towards an ethics of Weilian attention with examples of incarceration-focused curation reveals how upholding the insights and articulations of marginalized individuals promotes social wellbeing and works towards the realization of justice. Thousand Kites, a prison-based project connecting inmates and the public through the radio and internet, provides the central case study for a curatorial project aligning with Weilian attention.

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送风筝：西蒙妮·韦尔（Simone Weil）策展人的道德注意事项

随着社会参与实践在策展领域内的发展，注意力的使用已成为一项至关重要的道德决定。在社区协商的沟通空间内，如何以及向谁集中注意力的问题是可见性，归属感以及这些特征的确定。通过与以监禁为重点的策展项目一起探讨西蒙娜·威尔的关注伦理，本文将她的写作定位为专注策展的潜在框架。魏尔（Weil）的作品中发现的最终途径提供了将策展人转变为自我沉默的见证行为的手段，这种行为为人们提供了未被认可的声音。这项研究分析了维联的注意力是如何将探究重新定义为聆听并将他人观点作为主要知识来源的过程。通过以监禁为重点的策展实例来观察魏联关注的伦理，这表明坚持边缘化个人的见识和表述如何促进社会福祉并致力于实现正义。千风筝是一个基于监狱的项目，通过无线电和互联网将囚犯和公众联系起来，它为策展项目提供了中心案例研究，并得到了魏联的关注。