Title & Author:

Cultures of the curatorial / Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2012]

Description:

375 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
This book is based on the conference "Cultures of the Curatorial" at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst/Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, January 22-24, 2010.
Includes transcripts of interviews with Irit Rogoff, Eyal Weizman, and Hannah Hurtzig.
Includes bibliographical references.
Curating/curatorial : a conversation between / Irit Rogoff and Beatrice von Bismarck -- Affluence and choice : the social significance of the curatorial / Dorothea von Hantelmann -- Crisis as form : curating and the logic of mediation / Helmut Draxler -- Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place / Liam Gillick -- Notes on the curatorial : formalitism and other transatlantic differences / Maria Lind -- Exhibition, forensics, and the agency of objects / Eyal Weizman in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck and Jörn Schafaff -- To culture : curation as an active verb / Raqs Media Collective -- Written on water : choreographies of the curatorial / Gabriele Brandstetter -- On (the curatorial) set / Jörn Schafaff -- Space, presentation, possibility / Hannah Hurtzig in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck and Jörn Schafaff -- From object to subject : conceptualizing "the future of tradition--the tradition of future" / Avinoam Shalem -- Displaying the absent : exhibiting transcultural modernism / Marion von Osten -- Art without artists? / Anton Vidokle -- Artists and curators as authors : competitors, collaborators, or teamworkers? / Dorothee Richter -- On display : areas of interest / Barbara Steiner -- A curator's reality check : conditions of curating the performing arts / Pirkko Husemann -- The exhibition as collective / Beatrice von Bismarck -- Beyond the pleasure of a flawless narrative : photography in the museum / Thomas Weski -- Is a museum a factory? / Hito Steyerl -- What can the curatorial learn from the educational? / Nora Sternfeld -- "It's not you, it's me" : the making of the UAE Pavilion at the Venice Biennale / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Burning from the inside : new institutionalism revisited / Simon Sheikh.

Summary:

This book aims to map the scope of perspectives from which the curatorial field of knowledge can be discussed. Coming from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds, the contributors exemplify and entanglement of theory and practice, consider recent developments within the curatorial field, allow self-reflective analysis, and expo lore the conditions under which art and culture become public.

Resources:
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9781934105979 (pbk.)
193410597X (pbk.)

Subject:

Art museums Curatorship.
Musées d'art Conservation.
curating.
Art and Design.
Kurator
Ausstellung
Curatorship.
Art museums

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Interviews.
Kongress Leipzig <2010>
Konferenzschrift 2010 Leipzig

Added entries:

Bismarck, Beatrice von.
Schafaff, Jörn.
Weski, Thomas.
Rogoff, Irit
Weizman, Eyal
Hurtzig, Hannah.
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Cultures of the Curatorial (2010 : Leipzig, Germany)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283161
Call No.: BIB 221193
Status: Available