The curatorial : a philosophy of curating / edited by Jean-Paul Martinon.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museums--Philosophy.

Art museums.

Curatorship--Philosophy.

Curatorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguishes between ''curating'' and ''the curatorial''. If ''curating'' is a gamut of professional practices for setting up exhibitions, then ''the curatorial'' explores what takes place on the stage set up, both intentionally and unintentionally, by the curator. It therefore refers not to the staging of an event, but to the event of knowledge itself. In order to start thinking about curating, this book takes a new approach to the topic. Instead

Contents:

HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Send-Offs; 1 On the Curatorial, From the Trapeze; AZ; BY; CX; DW; EV; FU; GT; HS; IR; JQ; KP; LO; MN; 2 Theses in the Philosophy of Curating1; Gift; Embodied knowledge; The other of narrative; Spacing; Mapping and playing chess; Send-Off; Warrior of the imaginary; A place that isn't one; The ignorant body; Thought; 3 Whence the Future?; 4 The Expanding Field; What on earth do they mean?; The limits of multiplicity; Contemporaneity as infrastructure; 5 Dear Art, Yours Sincerely

Part II Praxeologies6 The Curator Crosses the River: A Fabulation; 7 Becoming-Curator; The event of becoming a curatorial subject; Truth - Knowledge; Three moves; Conclusion; 8 An Exhausted Curating; 9 Eros, Plague, Olfaction: Three Allegories of the Curatorial; Autistic doxology; Eros: Sensual epistemology; Plague: Affective contagion; Olfaction: Being sense; Operative play; Part III Moves; 10 The Task at Hand: Transcending the Clamp of Sovereignty; 11 The Simple Operator; Foreword; The rise up; Crossing over; The other; An example of beginning; Naming; The setting down

12 Three Short Takes on the CuratorialBlinding; Inhibiting; Symptom; 13 Aku menjadi saksi kepada - What I am Thinking; 14 Betrayal and the Curatorial - A Testimony for the Committee on the Curatorial; Part IV Heresies; 15 A Conspiracy without a Plot; The accomplice; The undercommons; The police; Study; Invocation; Care; Complicit love; 16 What does a Question Do? Micropolitics and Art Education; 17 Being Able to Do Something; A decided 'perhaps'; A question mark within; Critical agency; 18 The Politics of Residual Fun; The art of conversation; Technologies of fun; Part V Refigurations

19 Modern Art: Its Very Idea and the Time/Space of the Collection20 Two Invoking Media: Radio and Exhibition; 21 In Unfamiliar Terrain: Preliminary Notes towards Site-Relationality and the Curatorial; Report on Balikci Denjongpa's project; Report on the Alien Nation Project: The dynamics of community; Site-relationality: Map-making as gesture; Summation: Conflict and endless overlaps of disciplinary thoughts; 22 Curating Ghostly Objects: Counter-Memories in Cinematic Space; Introduction: The curatorial mode of filmmaking; Exhibiting warchitecture: Borders as sites of catastrophic memories

Curating soundscapes: Remembering the polyvocal/multilingual societyPerforming counter-narratives: Reminiscing unofficial histories; Conclusion; 23 Non-Museums; Srinagar, 1963; Kassel, 2012; National Art Gallery, Islamabad, 2007; Toba Tek Singh, 1948 or 1949; Part VI Stages; 24 Curating, Dramatization and the Diagram: Notes towards a Sensible Stage; 25 Curating Context; Coda: Your Apples Fall Into My Garden: Two Takes on Context; 26 Backstage and Processuality: Unfolding the Installation Sites of Curatorial Projects; Processual notions; Call for materialism; Unfolding installation sites

27 This Is Not About Us

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472533616

1472533615

9781472523167

1472523164

OCLC:

860754985