Theater, garden, bestiary : a materialist history of exhibitions / Tristan Garcia & Vincent Normand (eds.) ; translation, Susan Emanuel, Emilia Lanier, Gila Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia, Tristan, 1981- editor.

Normand, Vincent, editor.

École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, issuing body.

Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Exhibitions.

Social aspects.

History.

Natural history--Exhibitions.

Natural history.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects--History.

Art--Exhibitions--Social aspects--History.

Art.

Art--Exhibitions.

Natural history--Exhibitions--Social aspects--History.

Exhibitions--Social aspects--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[Lausanne] : ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Some articles translated from French.

Summary:

This volume gathers and expands upon the results of the research project ?Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions,? held at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and proposes a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions. It undertakes a transdisciplinary history at the nexus of art history, science studies, and philosophy, exploring the role the exhibition played in the construction of the conceptual categories of modernity, and outlines a historiographical model that conceptualizes the exhibition as both an aesthetic and an epistemic site.

Contents:

Foreword / Stéphanie Moisdon

Introduction / Tristan Garcia and Vincent Normand

Nymphéas transplant / Pierre Huyghe

I. Frame and stage : enclosing the subject. Concepts for the critical study of art exhibitions as media / Kim West ; Theatricality, autonomy, negativity / conversation with Juliane Rebentisch ; Anatomy theater : the order of curiosity / Rafael Mandressi ; Exposability : on the taking-place in future of art / Lucy Steeds ; Looking at animals / Filipa Ramos ; Apparatus and form : the split identity of the exhibition / Vincent Normand ; Folded cuts / Etienne Chambaud

II. The site of soght : carving the object. Seeing, showing, ordering : notes on a natural history of exhibiting / João Ribas ; On the aestheticization, institutionalization, and dramatization of the concept of nature / conversation with Olivier Surel and Charles Wolfe ; Exposition/exhibition : the French salons / Stéphane Lojkine ; Compensatory postures : on natural history, necroaesthetics, and humiliation / Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin ; The exhibition as parergon of artworks : Russian avant-garde experiments / Elitza Dulguerova ; Neither gesture nor work of art : exhibition as disposing for appearance / Tristan Garcia ; Anamazon / Pamela Rosenkranz

III. The exhibition-form : spatializing the concept. Blank space : about the white cube and the generic condition of contemporary art / Jeremy Lecomte ; Exhibiting and sensibilizing : recontextualizing "Les Immatériaux" / Yuk Hui ; Self-expropriated museums / Anselm Franke ; Art institutions as ritual spaces : a brief genealogy of gatherings / Dorothea von Hantelmann ; How to exhibit the spatialization of history? / Sami Khatib ; The exhibition-form and the space-time of the artwork : a retroactive ontology / conversation with Peter Osborne ; The form of not (axiom) / Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni.

Notes:

Outgrowth of a research project of the same name conducted by HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne from November 2015 to March 2017. (Foreword)

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783956794551

3956794559

OCLC:

1091844890

Publisher Number:

99984134529