Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

by Rugg, Judith; Sedgwick, Michele

• ISBN13: 9781841501628
• ISBN10: 184150162X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performanceargues that, despite these daily pressures, good curating work also requires more theoretical attention. In this groundbreaking volume, a distinguished group of artists, curators, and writers probe the changing face of curating in dance, the visual arts, film, and writing. They explore cutting-edge developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, non-gallery spaces, and "virtual" fields in this essential read for scholars, curators, and art enthusiasts alike. "Changes in curatorial strategy require constant analysis. The mediation of culture is a contested territory. This book contains texts by some of the most dynamic and critical people writing on the subject today."Liam Gillick, artist and writer

Author Biography

Judith Rugg is a research coordinator and reader in fine art theory at University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. She is the editor of Recoveries and Reclamations, also published by Intellect.
Michèle Sedgwick is an employment lawyer with an interest in cultural theory.

 

 

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Forms of Thinking in Contemporary Curating	p. 11
The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse	p. 13
Curatorial Strategy as Critical Intervention: The Genesis of Facing East	p. 29
No Place like Home: Europa	p. 45
Curating and the Interdisciplinary: Encounter, Context, Experience	p. 57
Critical Spatial Practice: Curating, Editing, Writing	p. 59
Exhibitions and Their Prerequisites	p. 77
The Role of the Curator: Contestation and Consideration	p. 89
Curating Doubt	p. 91
A Parallel Universe: The "Women's" Exhibitions at the ICA, 1980, and the UK/Canadian Film and Video Exchange, 1998-2004	p. 101
Thoughts on Curating	p. 113
Emergent Practices: Subverting the Museum	p. 129
Oscillating the 'high/low' Art Divide: Animation in Museums and Galleries	p. 131
Generator: The Value of Software Art	p. 147
Who Makes Site-specific Dance? The Year of the Artist and the Matrix of Curating	p. 163
The Movement Began with a Scandal	p. 175
Notes on Contributors	p. 181
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