Full Description
In a so-called post-neoliberal world, it can seem like culture is stuck in a perpetual presentism where history and the future are but mere data points for speculative calculations of gains, and culture seems all but a string of endlessly repeating commodities. In such an environment, can we rescue the future for art, for curating and the curatorial, and for culture more generally? Do we need to? What function do concepts like the future and futurity play in the field of curating and the curatorial? What use is 'the future' to curators and others working within the field of the curatorial? The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures is the first curatorial studies volume to engage with the increasingly ubiquitous concept of 'the future' and its exponential growth in the fields of artistic research, curating, art and academia. What is it we need to know as we think towards the future?
Contents
List of Figures
1. Introduction: Emergent Directions in Curatorial Thinking and Practice
Bassam El Baroni, Bridget Crone and Matthew Poole
Part I. Curatorial Complexities
2. Unravelling: After Practice-Based Curating
Lucy Cotter
3. Conspiratorial Realities: Toward a Media History of Art
Mahan Moalemi
4. Liquid Bodies. Liquid Worlds: Notes
Bridget Crone, with an introduction by Lucy A. Sames
5. Curatorial Constellations, Parataxis, Neoliberalism
Matthew Poole
6. Curating-at-Large: Notes Towards a Sufficiently General Category
Suhail Malik
Part II. Re-Centring The Curatorial
7. Stolen Moments. Namibian Music History Untold
Aino Moongo and Renzo Baas
8. Curating Incommensurable Nuclear Futures
Ele Carpenter with Lise Autogena, Gabriella Hirst, Warren Harper, Alex Ressel, Kerri Meehan and Jeremiah Garlngarr
9. Listening to Offshore Detention: The Politics of Curation in how are you today by the Manus Recording Project Collective
James E. K. Parker and Joel Stern
10. Curative Curation: Black Women Curators as Restorative Agents
Portia Malatjie
11. Johanna Unzueta's Tools for Life: Engaging a Politics of Labour Within the Art Institution
Danielle Child
12. GABAN (strange): Holding Space for murum-gidyal (Healing) in Museums and Galleries
Brook Garru Andrew
13. After-Events: Biennials Beyond the Exhibition
Anthony Gardner
14. Working together(ness): The Curatorial as a 'Function'
Dimitra Gkitsa with Grace Samboh
Part III. Datafication
15. Desperately Seeking Audience: Analytics in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
Katrina Sluis
16. Curating on the Web as a Way to Create Interferences in Today's Network
Marialaura Ghidini
17. Curating/Fermenting Data: Speculative Practices for Curatorial Futures
Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
18. Sleep Series: 'art by sleepers, for sleepers and art as sleep'
Shu Lea Cheang and Matthew Fuller
19. The Labour of Symbiosis
Caroline A. Jones
20. Curating Tech Platforms
Mi You
21. Useful Curating in the Postdigital Era
Stéphanie Bertrand
Part IV. Radical Insfrastructures
22. Acoustic Sympathies: Temporal, Vibrational and Improvisational Worlds
Brandon LaBelle
23. Companion to an Eviscerated City: A Tragireality in Two Voices and Four Acts
Lara Baladi and Beth Stryker
24. Preserving Citizenry: Derry Film and Video Workshop and the Quest(ion) for Institutions
Isobel Harbison
25. Something Smiles Through All The Drowsiness of the World: A Field Report
Maha Maamoun for Kayfa ta
26. From the 'Lure for Feeling' to Grassroots Planning: Grammars of Intention and Conjuncture in the Future Possible
Janna Graham
27. Object Flow: From Storage to Commons
Marina Valle Noronha
28. Where is the Body of the Curator?
Lisa Rosendahl
Part V. Fictioning The Curatorial
29. Curatorial Practice as Disaster Fiction
Jacob Lillemose
30. World Building: Feminist Futures on Mothership Earth
Eva Díaz
31. Prototyping Value
Lukáš Likavčan
32. Parables of Curatorial Futures
Tara McDowell
Notes on Contributors
Index
