This book is based on the conference "Cultures of the Curatorial" at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst/Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, January 22-24, 2010. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Burning from the inside : new institutionalism revisited / Simon Sheikh. Affluence and choice : the social significance of the curatorial / Dorothea von Hantelmann -- Crisis as form : curating and the logic of mediation / Helmut Draxler -- Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place / Liam Gillick -- Notes on the curatorial : formalitism and other transatlantic differences / Maria Lind -- Exhibition, forensics, and the agency of objects / Eyal Weizman in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck and Jörn Schafaff -- To culture : curation as an active verb / Raqs Media Collective -- Written on water : choreographies of the curatorial / Gabriele Brandstetter -- On (the curatorial) set / Jörn Schafaff -- Space, presentation, possibility / Hannah Hurtzig in conversation with Beatrice von Bismarck and Jörn Schafaff -- From object to subject : conceptualizing "the future of tradition--the tradition of future" / Avinoam Shalem -- Displaying the absent : exhibiting transcultural modernism / Marion von Osten -- Art without artists? / Anton Vidokle -- Artists and curators as authors : competitors, collaborators, or teamworkers? / Dorothee Richter -- On display : areas of interest / Barbara Steiner -- A curator's reality check : conditions of curating the performing arts / Pirkko Husemann -- The exhibition as collective / Beatrice von Bismarck -- Beyond the pleasure of a flawless narrative : photography in the museum / Thomas Weski -- Is a museum a factory? / Hito Steyerl -- What can the curatorial learn from the educational? / Nora Sternfeld -- "It's not you, it's me" : the making of the UAE Pavilion at the Venice Biennale / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Burning from the inside : new institutionalism revisited / Simon Sheikh.
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