Walking from the msueum to my car I recently happened upon a trashcan in a public park. It had some grafitti on it, and lots of stickers. One read ACAB, which normally means All Cops Are Bastards. Not a sentiment I agree with. But coming closer I could read the smaller-print full text…..
What the hell??????
All curators are bastards?
First of all, nearly all curators I ever met are really cool people. The rest may not be the nicest people in the world, and I may not want to be friends with some of them, but I have never met a curator whom I would call names. Not one.
Secondly, the generalization has me stumped: all? What insane idiot is so weirdly twisted that s/he believes that an entire group of people, and a large one at that, are all mean – and then curators?
Lastly, who in their semi-right minds would go to the bother of actually having stickers printed with this slogan?
Colour me totally confused…..
I wonder if they mean curator in the hipster sense (i.e., someone who collects vaguely related images/essays/music/products/etc. and posts them on a website) – e.g., “Check out this great curated collection of photos of ironic mustaches.”
ha, never thought of that!
The person who posted that sticker needs to learn that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
The term comes from a series of works by an alleged artist of Swedish origin, named Klas Eriksson. He uses football references in his works, and creaed a large number of “supporter’s scarves” showing the “all cops” and “all curators” phrases for an exhibition. I’d guess that the sticker is related to that exhibition. More details here – http://www.klaseriksson.org/works/acab-first-cops-second-and-third-curators/