Kolb, R. and Richter, D. (2022) ‘Scores – From Situated Knowledges to Shared Action’, OnCurating, 53, pp. 121–125.


Kolb and Richter translate situated knowledge into a practical score-based format designed for enactment, modification and circulation. Their central idea is that a score can hold enough structure to be recognisable while remaining open enough to produce different outcomes in different contexts. This creates a compact model of curatorial authorship in which instruction does not eliminate agency but distributes it. Methodologically, the score becomes a transmissible research object: it can travel across places, be enacted by different groups, generate documentation and return to the platform in altered form. The conceptual bridge is to performance studies, participatory art and open-source culture, because the identity of the work is maintained through iterability rather than through material fixity. The score therefore offers a powerful model for curatorial frameworks that define conditions, thresholds and responsibilities while leaving the content of participation genuinely open to situated transformation.