ABSTRACT

Art museum educators have long occupied a lower rank than their curatorial counterparts in the institutional hierarchies of their organizations. This manuscript provides an overview of research that attempted to make sense of art museum educator/curator positionalities by suggesting a sexed and gendered binary of museum work. I turn to queer theory to trouble and expand that analysis by situating education/curation as one of many contradictory discourses within a larger Western epistemological tradition that fueled myriad binaries and cast specific bodies in sexed and gendered ways. I utilize the physical structure of basement – the location of many art museum education departments and offices – as a corollary to the queer closet, a space to interrogate the charged education/curation pairing, explore the habitus of contemporary art museum educators, and evoke queer orientations that consider the basement a point of departure rather than a final point of physical and institutional situatedness.

摘要

长期以来，美术馆的教育工作者在其组织的体制层次中的地位比其策展的同行低。该手稿提供了对研究的概述，这些研究试图通过提出博物馆作品的性别对照来理解美术馆的教育家/策展人的位置。我将理论置于麻烦之中，并通过将教育/治疗定位为西方认识论传统中众多相互矛盾的话语之一来扩大研究范围，以丰富无数的二元论并以性别进行性别转换。我利用地下室的物理结构（许多美术馆的教育部门和办公室的位置）作为酷儿壁橱的必然结果，可以用来探讨收费教育/策画配对，探索习性的空间 和当代美术馆博物馆教育家的想法，引起了人们的兴趣，他们认为地下室是出发点，而不是实体和机构位置的终点。