Museums inside out : artist collaborations and new exhibition ecologies / Mark W. Rectanus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rectanus, Mark W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists and museums.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Museums Inside Out explores a wide range of contemporary museum practices, curatorial initiatives, and collaborative projects that are "moving out" of the museum's traditional spatial practices of archiving, exhibiting, and viewing culture. Focusing on the relationship between artists and what the author calls "the translocal," Moving Out examines the tensions among museums and urban spaces, cultural memory, digital culture, activism, the environment, and the cultural politics of the "creative economy." Rectanus argues that many museums increasingly promote social advocacy and curatorial practices that reject notions of neutrality, while simultaneously being bound up and constrained within neoliberal economies and financial interests as well as the ambitions of being a "global museum.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rethinking museums

Architectures of memory

Cartographies of urban space and performance

Datascapes and landscapes

Museums and the creative economy

Museum futures and speculations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rectanus, Mark W., 1954- Museums inside out

ISBN:

9781517908249

1517908248

9781517908232

151790823X

OCLC:

1104221696