To collect is to gather your thoughts through things (spellcheck wants to change curating to crating)

"To collect is to gather your thoughts through things (spellcheck wants to change curating to crating)" This paper unpacks the collection as artwork, will briefly look at how artists have put ideas of collecting and curating to the test, and will investigate some of the established ideas around this tradition, rethinking how artworks, which perform as collections, might make trouble for the work of curating and collecting, and making sense of things—as if on a dare