The curatorial condition / Beatrice von Bismark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bismarck, Beatrice von, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museums--Curatorship.

Art museums.

Museum exhibits.

Physical Description:

205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Distribution:

[Cambridge] : Distributed by the MIT Press, Art Data, Les presses de réel, and Idea Books

Place of Publication:

London : Sternberg Press, [2022]

Summary:

In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditions and potentials underpinning its special sociocultural status have yet to be defined. Taking this as a starting point, in this book, Beatrice von Bismarck outlines the curatorial--that field of cultural activity and knowledge which relates to the becoming-public of art and culture--as a domain of practice and meaning with its own structures, conditions, rules, and procedures. Von Bismarck focuses on the relations created by the curatorial--relations that also constitute it. By concentrating on the dynamic fabric of relations between human and nonhuman participants, she carries out a shift within the discourse on the curatorial: rather than foregrounding partial definitions of the activity of curating, the subjectivization of the curator, and the presentation format of the exhibition, she emphasizes the interplay of all these factors. She proposes a conceptual framework geared toward highlighting the activity, the subject position, and the resulting product as always already dynamically interrelated in its genesis, articulation, and function. Not least, this situates the curatorial condition in the context of key parameters of societal developments over the last half century.

Contents:

Curatoriality : the relational dynamics of the curatorial : an introduction

Constellation : coming together in public

Heterochronicity and relations in flux : "Anti-illusion : procedures/materials" (New York, 1969)

The politics of the gesture : Joëlle Tuerlinckx's Aqui havia historia-cultura agora o (Kassel, 2002)

Conflicts along lines of care : anti-museum, immaterial labor, and gender : A 37 90 87 (Antwerp, 1969-70)

Transposition : moving in entanglements

Material agency : pause and expose in the practice of Dorit Margreiter

Shifting encounters : Julie Ault and Martin Beck's "Installation" (Vienna, 2006)

In the language of the curatorial : fiction and imminence : Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's "Roman de Münster" (Münster, 2007) and Sarah Pierce's "It's time man. It feels imminent" (London, 2008)

Rehearsing evidence : "Mengele's skull" (Frankfurt am Main, 2012) and "Forensis" (Berlin, 2014)

Hospitality : ambivalences of generosity

Economies of visibility : Louise Lawler and the art of inviting

Becoming-Museum : "Tensta Museum : reports from new Sweden" (Stockholm, 2013-15)

Capitalizing relations : "When attitudes become form : Bern 1969/Venice 2013" (Venice, 2013).

Notes:

Resources from the McCormick Library of Special Collections have been used in this work.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202).

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9783956795343

3956795342

OCLC:

1140709814

Publisher Number:

99995060353