Curating and Politics. - Curatorial Practices Beyond Control: Unveiling the Hidden Politics of Exhibitions

Ever since the nineteen-nineties, curatorial discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politics is usually considered the direct result of a curator's deliberate acts and intentions. Now, however, new institutional models and modes of exhibition practice together with key shifts in funding and collecting strategies have revealed aspects of curatorial politics over which the exhibition-maker has little or no control. The present volume presents a series of essays by noted art theorists and cultural scientists that go beyond the perspective of the individual curator to reveal these previously unexplored levels of curatorial politics.

About the author

T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst.

Summary

Ever since the nineteen-nineties, curatorial discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politics is usually considered the direct result of a curator's deliberate acts and intentions. Now, however, new institutional models and modes of exhibition practice together with key shifts in funding and collecting strategies have revealed aspects of curatorial politics over which the exhibition-maker has little or no control. The present volume presents a series of essays by noted art theorists and cultural scientists that go beyond the perspective of the individual curator to reveal these previously unexplored levels of curatorial politics.

Product details

• Authors: Heid Bale Amundsen, Heidi Bale Amundsen, Ekaterin Degot, Ekaterina Degot, T J e Demos
• Assisted by: Heidi +Bale Amundsen (Editor), Heidi Bale Amundsen (Editor), Bale Amundsen (Editor), Bale Amundsen (Editor), Heid Bale Amundsen (Editor), Heidi Bale Amundsen (Editor), Elise Mørland (Editor), Ger Elise Mørland (Editor), Gerd Elise Mørland (Editor), Gerd Elise Moerland (Editor), Gerd Elise Morland (Editor), Gerd Elise Mørland (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9783775740791
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-4079-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 215 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 260 g
• Illustrations: w. 30 figs.
• Series: Zeitgenössische Kunst
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts; Medientheorie, Zeitgenössische Kunst, contemporary Art, Programm, Media Theory, Kunstsammlungen, art collections, Art Theory Essays, Curating Beyond Control, Curator's Influence