Paper Title
USING CURATORIAL ACTIVISM STRATEGIES TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF CURATED EXPERIMENTS INSIDE AN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING

Abstract
Abstract - In the growing field of practice-based research, this study describes my own experience of conducting a reflective curatorial-based project inside an institutional space to promote ecological thinking. This study elaborates on the significance of curatorial activism and the role of curators in the promotion of ecological thinking through a curated experiment by using Reilly's notion of curatorial activism as a reflective strategy for artistic projects addressing environmental issues in India.In the face of our unrelenting suffering, the experiment contextualizes the idea that environmental concerns are the cause or result of injustice and inequality, such as racism, poverty, and neo-colonial violence, and is committed to developing more modest possibilities of partial recovery and collaboration to redo ways of thinking about the environment and future. By revealing these themes, it created an open, unpretentious space for progressive dialogue, activating hope and empathy, thought, and awareness to explore our complex relationship with our environment, life elements, and imagination. The project produces a rich, original, and practice-based inquiry through the curation of the exhibition and a discursive event in collaboration with a group of environmental activists, artists, and institutions. This strand involves observing visitor behaviour, potentially allowing the observation and mapping of visitors’ reactions, duration of visits, interactions with others, and patterns of movement around the events. This field study provides in-depth insight into curatorial strategies' effectiveness through dialogue on curatorial activism's development and future and its ethical responsibility toward the ecological crisis. Using these methods, the preliminary results present the potential of cultural institutions to communicate environmental crises and climate science to the wider public and reflect on the tendency of exhibitions to promote ecological thinking. Keywords - Activism, Audience Engagement, Curatorial Activism, Environmental Art, Exhibitions.