The curatorial conundrum
Subtitle: what to study? what to research? what to practice?
By: edited by Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson, Lucy Steeds
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780262529105
Subjects: Museums; Art museum curators; Philosophy; Curatorship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Maja Hoffmann; title: The curatorial conundrum : introduction  -- Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson, Lucy Steeds; title: What to study? --; title: What is the future of exhibition histories? Or, toward art in terms of its becoming-public  -- Lucy Steeds; title: Obstacles to exhibition history : institutions, curatorship and the undead nation-state  -- David Teh; title: Under the sycamore tree curating as currency : actions that say something, words that do something  -- Jelena Vesić & Vladimir Jerić; title: Black-British artists and problems of systemic invisibility and eradication : creating exhibition histories of that which is not there  -- Eddie Chambers; title: The paradoxes of autonomy : a site of critique  -- Nikita Yingqian Cai; title: Redrawing global aspirations of exhibition-making from a southern perspective : Latin American Biennial of São Paulo (1978) and Coloquio de Arte No-Ojbetual (1981)  -- Miguel A. López; title: On the solo show : from resistance to repression  -- João Ribas; title: On the case of curatorial history  -- Jeannine Tang; title: What to research? --; title: The source of our nobility and our path to the highest things  -- Luis Camnitzer; title: It is reading that counts  -- Mélanie Bouteloup; title: Collectivity, conflict, imagination, transformation  -- Galit Eilat; title: What do you want to know?  -- What, How & for Whom/WHW; title: The incomplete curator : AKA fighting the delineated field  -- Liam Gillick; title: Curation and futurity  -- Simon Sheikh; title: What to practice? --; title: An autodidact's practice : investigating the reserves of the curatorial moment  -- Nancy Adajania; title: Strategic regionalism  -- Tobias Ostrander; title: Being Africa : contextual narratives of artistic environments  -- Koyo Kouoh; title: How to put ourselves between the closing door and its frame?  -- Zasha Cerizza Colah; title: Il faut qu'on se bouge!  -- Sumesh Sharma; title: Digging into the past to unearth the future  -- Hans Ulrich Obrist; title: In search of a flashlight : the intimate politics of the curatorial  -- Vivian Ziherl; title: Qalqalah : falling out of memory  -- Sarah Rifky; title: Image appendix --; title: Contributors' biographies.