Curatopia : museums and the future of curatorship / edited by Philipp Schorch and Conal McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schorch, Philipp, editor.

McCarthy, Conal, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Curatorship.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curatorship. It reviews the different models and approaches operating in museums, galleries and cultural organisations around the world and discusses emerging concerns, challenges and opportunities.

Contents:

Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia

Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr

Part I: Europe. The museum as method (revisited) / Nicholas Thomas

What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things / Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan

Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debate / Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose

Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich / Hilke Thode-Arora

Curating across the colonial divides / Jette Sandahl

Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary / Viv Golding and Wayne Modest

Part II: North America. The times of the curator / James Clifford

Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia / Anthony Alan Shelton

Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada's national museums / Ruth B. Phillips

Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? / Bryony Onciul

Joining the club: a Tongan 'akau in New England / Ivan Gaskell

'c̨[schwa]sna?[schwa]m, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver / Paul Tapsell

Part III: Pacific. The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Maori curatorship past and present / Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch

Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums / Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond

Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society / Bronwyn Labrum

Curating relations between 'us' and 'them': the changing role of migration museums in Australia / Andrea Witcomb

Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting / Sean Mallon

He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations / Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch

Afterwords. Curating time / Ian Wedde

Virtual museums and new directions? / Vilsoni HerenikoIndex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526118219

1526118211

9781526142016

1526142015

9781526118202

1526118203

OCLC:

1065537493