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Journal of Curatorial Studies - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
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The Accidental Exhibition: Chance as Curatorial Critique and Opportunity
More LessThis article elucidates the possibilities offered by an increased interest in chance and indeterminacy as curatorial strategies. Whether informed by artistic or scientific practice, the processes informing these exhibitions are intended not only to attenuate the curatorial role, but also to critique temporary, circumscribed and static exhibition formats in pursuit of more vital structures for the production of knowledge through display. Examining Elena Filipovic's Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form (2010–11) and Jens Hoffmann's Passengers (2007–08), among other shows, demonstrates how chance compositional tropes involving repetition and gradual transformation emphasize the exhibition medium as an unstable form with matrices of possibilities.
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Hanging Out, Crowding Out or Talking Things Out: Curating the Limits of Discursive Space
More LessThis article considers recent curatorial gestures that draw attention to the limits of institutional discursive space. Focusing in particular on the strategies of formulating discursive structures in unitednationsplaza (2006–09) and of audience alienation in Our Literal Speed (OLS) conferences (2008–) , this article explores the possibility of critical engagement with the limits of discursive procedures.
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Fashion and the Art Museum: When Giorgio Armani Went to the Guggenheim
By John PotvinThis article explores the collision of fashion with the modern art museum. Fashion exhibitions have been the source of much animosity and criticism among cultural arbiters and power brokers, while also being highly popular amongst museumgoers. Taking the controversial travelling Giorgio Armani retrospective initially staged at the Guggenheim Museum (New York) in 2000 as the focal point, the article argues how a non-avant-garde designer of Armani's stature troubles the steadfast cultural, conceptual and corporeal economies of the modern art museum.
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Curatorial Studies on the Edge: The Ghetto Biennale, a Junkyard, and the Performance of Possibility
More Less'What happens when First World art rubs up against Third World art? Does it bleed?' These were the questions posed in the prospectus for the Ghetto Biennale, an invitation to international artists to converge and work alongside the artists of the Grand Rue neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This article situates the Biennale within the context of cultural and critical theory that firstly unravels the dialogical discourses involved in the curatorial praxis of this event, and secondly contemplates the concept of curation against the backdrop of the contemporary international politics of Haiti, national disaster and trauma.
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Between Consensus and Anxiety: Curating Transparency at the ICA of the 1950s
More LessThis article explores the founding principles of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) through two of its experimental exhibitions, Growth and Form (1951) and an Exhibit (1957). By examining the writings of key individuals in the ICA's early years, such as Lawrence Alloway, Richard Hamilton and Herbert Read, this text considers how methods of curatorial inquiry were defined and developed. The purview of the curatorial, in this case as a practice that makes visible multiple associations through a strategy of transparency, is used to develop an understanding of the ICA as an institution centred on interdisciplinary investigation.
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Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Helena Reckitt, Milena Tomic, Christian Schuch, Marta Jecu and Joanna SzupinskaCHRISTOPH BÜCHEL, PICCADILLY COMMUNITY CENTRE Hauser & Wirth, London, Piccadilly, 13 May–30 July 2011
MOVE: CHOREOGRAPHING YOU - ART AND DANCE SINCE THE 1960s Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Hayward Gallery, London, 13 October 2010–9 January 2011
MMX OPEN ART VENUE Seven exhibitions by Rebecca Loyche, Jonathan Gröger and Jason Burgess, Berlin, 29 January 2010–19 February 2011
KW69 Various curators, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 28 October 2010–23 October 2011
SQUATTING. ERINNERN, VERGESSEN, BESETZEN Curated by Tilo Schulz and Jörg van den Berg, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, 2 April–24 May 2010
CARLOS BUNGA, SIMULTÂNEO, FRAGMENTADO, DESCONTÍNUO Curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias, 29th São Paulo Biennial, 25 September–12 December 2010
FOKUS ŁÓDŹ BIENNALE 2010: FROM THE LIBERTY SQUARE TO THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE Organized by Ryszard Waśko (artistic director) and an international selection committee (Mirosław Bałka, Gabriele Horn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Angelika Stepken, Jarosław Suchan, Richard Vine, Gregory Volk and Ryszard Waśko), Łódź, Poland, 11 September–10 October 2010
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WEBSITE REVIEW
More LessVVORK, HTTP://WWW.VVORK.COM/ Curated by Aleksandra Domanovic, Christoph Priglinger, Georg Schnitzer and Oliver Laric, 2006–date
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BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Gabrielle Moser, Chelsea Haines, Brian Curtin and Ethan W. LasserCURATING AND THE EDUCATIONAL TURN, PAUL O'NEILL AND MICK WILSON (EDS) (2010) London and Amsterdam: Open Editions and De Appel Arts Centre, 344 pp., ISBN: 978-0-949004-18-5, Paperback, £18.00
RAISING FRANKENSTEIN: CURATORIAL EDUCATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, KITTY SCOTT (ED.) (2011) Banff and London: The Banff Centre Press and Koenig Books, 112 pp., ISBN: 978-1-894773-32-4 and 978-3-865560-918-2, Paperback, US $24.95
SELECTED MARIA LIND WRITING, BRIAN KUAN WOOD (ED.) (2010) New York: Sternberg Press, 413 pp., ISBN 978-1-934105-18-4, Paperback, US $29.95
WHO CARES? 16 ESSAYS ON CURATING IN ASIA, ALVARO RODRÍGUEZ FOMINAYA AND MICHAEL LEE (EDS) (2010) Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space with Studio Bibliothèque and seed|projects, 190 pp., ISBN 978-888-98963-9-3, Paperback, HK $80.00
A MATTER OF CLASS: JOHN COTTON DANA, PROGRESSIVE REFORM AND THE NEWARK MUSEUM, CAROL G. DUNCAN (2009) Pittsburgh: Periscope Publishing, 302 pp., ISBN 978-0-8135-4769-5, Hardcover, US $49.95
MADE IN NEWARK: CULTIVATING INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND CIVIC IDENTITY IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, EZRA SHALES (2010) New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rivergate Books, 302 pp., ISBN 978-0-8135-4769-5, Hardcover, US $49.95
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