Title & Author:

Curating and politics beyond the curator : initial reflections / edited by Heidi Bale Amundsen and Gerd Elise Mørland.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2015]
©2015

Description:

122 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Request for a radical redefinition : curatorial politics after institutional critique / Heidi Bale Amundsen and Gerd Elise Morland -- Art and the colonization of value / Andrea Philips -- Activist-patron-curators and North American museums / Reesa Greenberg -- Curation against the apocalypse, Documenta 13, 2012 / T.J. Demos -- Beyond the era of the object : towards an aesthetics of anti-commodification / Cecilia Sjoholm -- Critical afterword : curating as hand-sorting and other recent developments / Ekaterina Degot.

Summary:

Ever since the nineteen-nineties, curatorial discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politics is usually considered the direct result of a curator's deliberate acts and intentions. Now, however, new institutional models and modes of exhibition practice together with key shifts in funding and collecting strategies have revealed aspects of curatorial politics over which the exhibition-maker has little or no control. The present volume presents a series of essays by noted art theorists and cultural scientists that go beyond the perspective of the individual curator to reveal these previously unexplored levels of curatorial politics.

ISBN:

9783775740791 (paperback)
3775740791 (paperback)

Subject:

Curatorship Political aspects.
Art museums Political aspects.
Conservation Aspect politique.
Art and Design.

Added entries:

Amundsen, Heidi Bale, editor.
Mørland, Gerd Elise, 1976- editor.
Phillips, Andrea, author.
Greenberg, Reesa, author.
Demos, T. J., author.
Sjöholm, Cecilia, author.
Degotʹ, Ekaterina, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292124
Call No.: BIB 236165
Status: Available