Participant Categories

All, activist, advisor, agent, agroecologist, agroscientist, anthropologist, anthropologist of globalization, archeologist, architect, art critic, art historian, artist, artistic director, artists, author, biologist, choreographer, Commoners, composer, computer engineer, computer scientist, conservationist, core agent, critic, cultural analyst, cultural anthropologist, cultural critic, cultural historian, cultural theorist, cultural theorist, curator, dancer, deformed sculptures, designer, economist, editor, engineer, feminist, film director, filmmaker, filmmakers, gardener, geneticist, head of department, historian, hypnotherapist, iconologist, inventor, literary critic, musician, non-art-artist, performer, philosopher, philosopher of science, photographer, physicist, poet, poets, political philosopher, political scientist, political theorist, priest, psychoanalyst, publisher, researcher, scholar, science studies theorist, scientist, seed activist, social analyst, social theorist, sound poet, theorist, translator, unconscious analyst, whatever-singularities, writer, zoologist

The dOCUMENTA (13) agents contribute in various ways, and have different degrees of engagement. Some work more closely and consistently, others more loosely and occasionally, so as to create a generative process that is organic and affective, open to change. The Agents may increase during the upcoming years, and constitute an unstable curatorial entity. “In small systems,” states Christov-Bakargiev, “an agent acts by proxy, and chooses among a number of alternatives, so that agency is delegated, thus implying an element of uncertainty through which the system works. An agent, in biology, precipitates a reaction, and in fiction, an agent suggests someone who is hidden or undercover, never fully revealing identity. Agere, in Latin, is to act.”