A Companion to Curation (Blackwell Companions to Art History)

The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 9 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12 About the Editors......Page 13 Notes on Contributors......Page 15 Acknowledgments......Page 19 Foreword......Page 20 List of Illustrations......Page 22 Introduction......Page 26 Part I: An Overview: The Origin and Provenance of Curating......Page 29 Part II: Movements, Models, People, and Politics......Page 33 Part III: The Curator in a Globalized World......Page 36 Part IV: Beyond the Museum: Curating at the Frontier......Page 41 Some Final Thoughts......Page 45 References......Page 46 Part I An Overview: The Origin and Provenance of Curating......Page 47 Chapter 1 A Selective History of Curating in PittsburghThe Recent Story of the Carnegie International1......Page 49 The Origin and History of the Carnegie International......Page 50 The Story of Pittsburgh as a Center for Art Exhibitions......Page 53 Problems with International Survey Exhibitions......Page 56 The Nature of the Public Art Museum......Page 57 Identifying the Most Important Contemporary Art......Page 58 Reviewing Large Survey Exhibitions......Page 64 Notes......Page 65 References......Page 66 Chapter 2 Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism, and the Wunderkammer......Page 69 The Artistic and Intellectual Climate of the Earliest Wunderkammern......Page 70 Theaters of Order and the Spectacles of Collecting......Page 73 The Earliest Cabinets......Page 76 Other Related Forms: Dollhouses and Gardens......Page 77 Between Microcosm and Museum......Page 79 The House of Fugger......Page 82 Fact and Fabrication in Early Museums......Page 83 The Fantasies of Collecting and Living......Page 85 References......Page 86 Chapter 3 Professionalizing the FieldThe Case of the United States1......Page 89 Wanted: Museum Directors......Page 90 Paul Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard......Page 94 Pedagogy and Process......Page 98 Demise and Legacy......Page 104 Appendix: North American Museums Directed by Students of Paul J. Sachs, 1925–19902......Page 108 Notes......Page 110 Chapter 4 The Emergence of the Professional Curator......Page 113 Curating Private Collections in Early Modern Europe......Page 114 Public Museums and Professional Curators......Page 121 References......Page 128 Part II Movements, Models, People, and Politics......Page 133 Overture: Thinking......Page 135 Primal Scene: The Possible......Page 137 Extimate Objects: The Exception......Page 143 Return: The Impossible......Page 147 Coda: Diaspora......Page 152 Notes......Page 153 References......Page 154 Chapter 6 Curating without Borders: Transnational Feminist and Queer Feminist Practices for the Twenty-first Century ......Page 157 Precarious Art: Protest & Resistance, Berlin 2015......Page 160 Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who Is in Power, Ghent 2015......Page 163 More than One Fragile Thing at a Time, London 2015......Page 166 Queering Yerevan’s Collective Happenings in the Garden on Zarubyan Street 2008–2010......Page 169 Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future, Vancouver 2011–2012......Page 172 Conclusion......Page 175 References......Page 176 Chapter 7 Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial Method......Page 180 Notes......Page 187 Reference......Page 188 Introduction: The Sainsbury African Galleries......Page 189 Fieldwork and Collecting......Page 192 South Africa: The Landscape and Three Million Years of Art......Page 193 The Museum of Mankind......Page 195 North Africa......Page 197 Mozambique: The Throne and the Tree......Page 198 Sponsorship and Africa in the Basement......Page 199 The Atlantic Slave Trade......Page 201 Restitution and Reparation......Page 202 References......Page 204 Chapter 9 Curatorial Crisis......Page 206 Now a Few Words about Performance Art......Page 208 Reevaluation of Our Purpose......Page 211 References......Page 213 Part III The Curator in a Globalized World......Page 215 Prologue......Page 217 Institutions, Strategies and Regional Exchanges......Page 219 Productions of Discourses, Knowledge, and Engagement......Page 228 A Coda: “We Care as Much as You Pay”......Page 233 References......Page 236 Chapter 11 Museums Are Everywhere in China, There Is No Museum in China1: (or, How Institutional Typologies Define Curatorial Practices)......Page 239 The Rise of the Art Museum and the Creation of a New Public Realm......Page 241 Performance of the Curatorial......Page 244 Exhibiting and Exhibition‐making Typologies......Page 247 Curating the Future......Page 248 Notes......Page 250 Reference......Page 251 Three Thailand Biennials as Criti‐Curatorial Case Study1......Page 252 Curatorial Practice in Decolonial Spaces......Page 262 Notes......Page 269 References......Page 275 Chapter 13 Curated from Within: The Artist as Curator......Page 278 0.10 – The Last Futurist Exhibition of Pictures: Kazimir Malevich, Xenia Boguslavskaya, Ivan Puni, Petrograd, 1915......Page 279 Marcel Duchamp and the First Papers of Surrealism, New York, 1942......Page 281 The First Gutai Art Exhibition, the Gutai Art Association, Tokyo 1955......Page 283 From Artist-curator to Curator-creator......Page 284 Taking Control: The Artist‐curator and the Museum Paradigm......Page 288 Independent Alternatives: Redefining Curating from Within......Page 294 Conclusion......Page 301 References......Page 304 Chapter 14 Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum......Page 308 Impact of the Indian Act......Page 309 Repatriations......Page 310 Contemporary Artists Respond: 1980s/1990s......Page 311 Contemporary Artists Respond: 2000 to the Present......Page 314 The Discursive Space of the Museum......Page 317 Reasons for Optimism......Page 320 References......Page 321 Chapter 15 The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art Curating......Page 323 First Phase: The Arrival of the British......Page 324 Second Phase: The “Discovery” of Bark Paintings......Page 325 Third Phase: Papunya and the “Western Desert Dot and Circle” Paintings......Page 326 Fifth Phase: Aboriginal Curators and Writers......Page 327 A Personal Approach to Curation......Page 328 Working with Living Artists......Page 329 Notes......Page 335 References......Page 336 Chapter 16 The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of Realms......Page 337 Exhibition as an Act of Contextualization, Curating as an Active Force......Page 338 Two Aspects of Internationalism......Page 340 Context Orientation and Specificity that Matters......Page 342 Case Study 1: Turkey, Once a Southeastern European Now a Middle Eastern Territory......Page 343 Case Study 2: Gwangju Biennale, Strike toward the Elevation of Social Consensus......Page 345 Contemporary Exhibitionism......Page 347 Case Study 3: fig-2 and Art Night, Two New Modes of Curating Art Encounters......Page 348 Conclusion......Page 350 References......Page 351 The Octopus and the Cat......Page 352 Subcultural Criticism......Page 355 Conversations with Curators about Writing......Page 357 Train to Biennale......Page 358 Edges and Measures......Page 359 Poetry and Progress......Page 360 Tie a String around the World......Page 362 Notes......Page 364 References......Page 365 Part IV Beyond the Museum: Curating at the Frontier......Page 369 Introduction......Page 371 Defining the Role of Public Art......Page 372 The Curatorial Role in New Media Public Art......Page 379 Conservation and Maintenance of New Media Public Art......Page 394 Conclusion......Page 397 Notes......Page 398 References......Page 399 Introduction......Page 406 Approaching the Concept of Extended Reality (XR) and Virtual Reality (VR)......Page 407 Approach to VR Exhibitions in Contemporary Art and Storytelling......Page 410 Useful Guidelines and Tips to Curate and Exhibit VR......Page 411 References......Page 418 Introduction......Page 421 The Living Archive: A Conceptual Model......Page 422 Primary Theoretical References......Page 423 Cultural Memory as an Active Political Principle......Page 424 The Database as Cultural Form......Page 425 Characteristics of The Living Archive......Page 426 “Operational” Living Archives......Page 427 Tactical Media Files......Page 428 bak.ma......Page 430 Vox Populi......Page 431 The Syrian Archive......Page 432 Some Conclusions......Page 433 Notes......Page 435 References......Page 436 Chapter 21 Curating with the Internet......Page 437 Novelty, Banality or Transformation?......Page 438 Some Histories......Page 443 Post-Internet Curating......Page 446 Staging Online Exhibitions and Maintaining Archives......Page 448 Distribution and Circulation......Page 452 Un-curating, Anti-curating, and Artist as Curator......Page 455 Algorithmic Popularity......Page 459 The Stubborn Primacy of the Image......Page 461 Conclusion......Page 462 Notes......Page 463 References......Page 465 Re-visiting the “Two Cultures”......Page 468 Phenomenological Views of Technology/Science/Arts......Page 471 Arts Science Metaphors......Page 476 Curating in the Science Era......Page 481 The Politics of Science–Tech–Arts......Page 484 Consciousness, Embodiment, and the Arts......Page 487 Notes......Page 490 References......Page 491 Index......Page 493 EULA......Page 518

The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum

A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more.

This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17 th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume:

• Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice
• Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds
• Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike
• Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating
• Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world

Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.

**The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum**__A Companion to Curation____Blackwell Companion__This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. Theexplores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume:Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content,is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators. "This book, A Companion to Curation will fill a crucial and longstanding gap in the literature on the curator, curating and the history of curating in its varied forms. This collection of chapters aims to be a clear, engaging and timely publication, and the major reference text in the field. The book is divided into four broad conceptual sections: One: An Overview: The origin and provenance of curating Two: Movements, Models, People and Politics Three: Curating in a Globalised World Four: Beyond the Museum: Curating at the frontier This book, which is part of the Blackwell Companion series, provides a reference work for the field of curatorial studies and curating in the visual arts that is comprehensive in scope and context, comprehensible to the non-specialist, and representative of the diversity of current approaches within the profession and beyond"-- Provided by publisher Conçue comme une introduction à l'humour sombre et désespéré, cette compilation réunit une trentaine d'auteurs majeurs du dérisoire et du sarcasme. Le dénominateur commun de ces textes est leur forme courte : haïku, aphorisme, notule, pièce en un acte, roman en neuf lettres, chronique, histoire brève, page de carnet, nouvelle en trois lignes, autobiographie expresse, compte-rendu de poche, etc