Curating a Feminist Exhibition: Purpose, Process and Presentation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In January 2023, we curated the feminist exhibition titled Cultures of Head Coverings in the Wilfrid Johns Art Gallery, University of Victoria, Canada. The exhibition included a range of historical and contemporary stories by women about the head coverings and un-coverings they wear. The exhibition was a response firstly to global sexist xenophobia and secondly, to the province of Quebec’s recent ban on wearing ‘religious’ headwear in the public sector. The exhibition offered a visual and storied space for women to tell their stories through what is often viewed as a simple piece of cloth (or hair) but which is very complicated. Reflecting on our curatorial practice from conception to materialization as feminist adult educators who use exhibitions as spaces of gender justice we discuss the social and pedagogical potentials and challenges and how our principles of plurality, collaboration, subjectivity, identity, and responsibility to change informed all we did.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".