Issue 53 relocates situated knowledge from a philosophical citation into an active curatorial problem. Its central proposition is that knowledge is inseparable from position, social location, institutional context and embodied perspective, and that curatorial practice must therefore make these conditions visible rather than claim neutrality. The volume’s contribution lies in connecting Haraway’s feminist objectivity to exhibition-making, pedagogy, archives, attention and shared action. Methodologically, the issue moves between critical essays, exercises, workshops and scores, showing that situatedness is not only a theoretical category but also a design principle for curatorial formats. The wider bridge is to feminist epistemology and institutional critique: curating becomes accountable for how it assembles perspectives, whose knowledge is authorised, and how contexts shape what appears as truth. Situatedness therefore becomes a discipline of partiality, relation and revision rather than an appeal to local authenticity.
