基本説明
A distinguished group of artists, curators, and writers probe the changing face of curating in dance, the visual arts, film, and writing.
Full Description
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the interdisciplinary; as intervention and contestation; as a form of reconsideration of conventional museum spaces and as a problematic in 'emerging' practices. Beginning with a contextual 'map' of recent thinking on curating which examines some of the issues that have emerged in curatorial discourse over the last ten years, the volume then investigates curating as a research process and a form of collaboration in considering contemporary photography and video. The relationships between writing and curating, reception and encounter is proposed as part of a way of thinking as a critical spatial practice, and cross-disciplinary issues are considered in curating science / art exhibitions. Historical and contemporary perspectives examine issues of gender and marginalisation and diversity; and the particular issues relating to curating and practices such as animation, site-specific dance and computer-based work are discussed.
Contents
Chapter 1: 'The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse' - Page 13 - Paul O'Neill Chapter 2: 'Curatorial Strategy as Critical Intervention: The Genesis of Facing East' - Page 29 - Liz Wells Chapter 3: 'No Place like Home: Europa' - Page 45 - Sophia Phoca Chapter 4: 'Critical Spatial Practice: Curating, Editing, Writing' - Page 59 - Jane Rendell Chapter 5: 'Exhibitions and Their Prerequisites' - Page 77 - Chris Dorsett Chapter 6: 'Curating Doubt' - Page 91 - J.J. Charlesworth Chapter 7: 'A Parallel Universe: The "Women's" Exhibitions at the ICA, 1980, and the UK/Canadian Film and Video Exchange, 1998-2004' - Page 101 - Catherine Elwes Chapter 8: 'Thoughts on Curating' - Page 113 - Richard Hylton Chapter 9: 'Oscillating the "high/low" Art Divide: Animation in Museums and Galleries' - Page 131 - Suzanne Buchan Chapter 10: 'Generator: The Value of Software Art' - Page 147 - Geoff Cox Chapter 11: 'Who Makes Site-specific Dance? The Year of the Artist and the Matrix of Curating' - Page 163 - Kate Lawrence Chapter 12: 'The Movement Began with a Scandal' - Page 175 - Alun Rowlands
