Title & Author:

Curatorial things / Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

358 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Cultures of the curatorial

Notes:
"This book is based on the international symposium 'Curatorial things' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) , Berlin, October 30-November 1, 2014"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Curatorial Things : An Introduction / Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Economics of Information on Display / Sabeth Buchmann -- Tensta Museum : Still Alive and Morphing / Maria Lind -- Constellation Intolerance / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Closing the Book : Source Communities, Museums, and "Curatorial Things" / Kavita Singh -- Toward the Curatorial Thing : Bill Brown in conversation with Beatrice / von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Thing, Dance, Vagueness : Choreographic Challenges to Curating / André Lepecki -- "I Guess the Objects Remained Rather Unimpressed" : Florian Malzacher in conversation with Beatrice / von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Modes of Aesthetic Display in African Art / Annette Bhagwati -- Touching the Curatorial : On Collective Processes of Making Sense / Leire Vergara -- "This Discussion Was What There Was" : Circulating Rumors and Anecdotes as : Material for Exhibitions as Historiographies / Judith Welter -- Collections from the Colonial Past for a Future Museum-University / Clémentine Deliss -- Tournament of Value : Arjun Appadurai in conversation with Beatrice / von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Rearranging the World : Found Objects and the Collection, Pre- and Post-Internet / Katharina Weinstock -- Curating Spaces, Curating Interiors : Evoking Sites, Narratives, and Processes / Peter J. Schneemann -- "It's the Thing That's Going to Mess Everything Up" Sarah Pierce in conversation with Beatrice / von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- Fetishize This! Artifacts and Other Agents at the Edge of Art / Sven Lutticken -- Rehearsing Evidence / Beatrice von Bismarck -- Things after the Event : Publishing Exhibition Histories -- Lucy Steeds in conversation with Beatrice / von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer -- When Things Disappear : Curating Immateriality / Jana Scholze.

Summary:

The meaning, function, and status of things have changed decisively over the past two decades - a development that stems from increasing skepticism about the ability of things to present culture. This questioning of thingness is an integral part of presentation and has shaped the relevance of the field of the curatorial. Immanent to presentation as a mode of being (public) in the world, the curatorial has the potential to address, visualize, and investigate the central effects of the changing status and function of things. The presentational mode has played a generative role, vitally participating in the mobilization of things through its aesthetic, semantic, social, and, not least, economic dimensions. Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice, the anthology Curatorial Things provides new insight into the analysis of things.

ISBN:

9783956792809 (paperback)
3956792807 (paperback)

Subject:

Heimatmuseum Amöneburg
Museums Curatorship Congresses.
Museum exhibits Congresses.
Objets exposés Congrès.
Conservation (Muséologie) Congrès.
Museum exhibits
Museums Curatorship
Ausstellung
Kurator
Organisation

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Bismarck, Beatrice von, editor.
Meyer-Krahmer, Benjamin, editor.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.
Cultures of the curatorial ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308450
Call No.: BIB 253823
Status: Available