Issues in curating contemporary art and performance / edited by Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rugg, Judith.

Sedgwick, Michèle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and technology.

Art--Exhibition techniques.

Art.

Museums--Curatorship.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, nongallery spaces, and 'virtual' fields. This volume examines issues surrounding the curation of art and performance exhibitions. It covers original theories and expanded concepts of curating contemporary art.

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Forms of Thinking in Contemporary Curating; The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse; Curatorial Strategy as Critical Intervention: The Genesis of Facing East; No Place like Home: Europa; Part 2: Curating and the Interdisciplinary: Encounter, Context, Experience; Critical Spatial Practice: Curating, Editing, Writing; Exhibitions and Their Prerequisites; Part 3: The Role of the Curator: Contestation and Consideration; Curating Doubt

A Parallel Universe: The ""Women's"" Exhibitions at the ICA, 1980, and the UK/Canadian Film and Video Exchange, 1998-2004Thoughts on Curating; Part 4: Emergent Practices: Subverting the Museum; Oscillating the 'high/low' Art Divide: Animation in Museums and Galleries; Generator: The Value of Software Art; Who Makes Site-specific Dance? The Year of the Artist and the Matrix of Curating; The Movement Began with a Scandal; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-17236-7

9786611172367

1-84150-215-4

OCLC:

608622242