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Volume 12, Issue 2, 2023
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Framing Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia: Museums, Intermedia and the Problem with Painting
More LessThomas Wilfred (1889–1968) invented an idiosyncratic artform, ‘lumia’, that projected coloured light onto screens. With these contraptions, Wilfred aimed to expand the concept of art beyond standard media categories. Yet critics and curators historicized lumia within the tradition of painting, and the artist himself adopted a form of museological presentation – the frame – for his works of the 1950s. Close consideration of a work in the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art sheds light on how the disciplinary framework of museums obscures intermedia objects that prompt new approaches to their collection and interpretation.
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Lessons in Failure: Mavoch (1967) and the Labyrinth-Based Exhibition in Israel
By Meital RazIn 1967, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem launched Mavoch with great fanfare. Despite its innovative vision, critics swiftly dismissed the exhibition, and both the curator and the artists labelled it a failed experiment. This article revisits Mavoch to consider it as a watershed event in Israeli exhibitionary practice. The show is examined in a broader discussion on the genre of labyrinth-based exhibitions on which Mavoch was based. This genre, stemming from the surrealists’ shows in the 1930s and reaching its apex in Europe in the 1960s, heralded a shift in the concept of the museum from an object-oriented space to a dynamic venue of social participation. This article unravels the reasons behind the perceived failure of Mavoch and offers insights on the implementation of western display models in geographical and cultural peripheries.
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The Institutionalization of Video Art at the Museum of Modern Art
By Vuk VukovićAnalysing the history of video art poses challenges due to the complex environments from which video emerged. However, some of its conceptual origins can be traced through art institutions that pioneered the integration of video art into museums. By examining key projects and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, I argue that the museum’s first study grant obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation not only expanded the exhibition and collection of video work, but also laid the foundation for its institutionalization, which in turn exerted decisive effects on the subsequent history of video art.
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- Curatorial Reflections
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Radical Curating, Black Community Archives and the Sir George Williams Affair
More LessThis article explores strategies employed in the 2019 archival exhibition Protests and Pedagogy: Representations Meanings and Memories. The exhibition was organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sir George Williams Affair, when Canadian students protested racism in the classroom at Concordia University. Using the curatorial process as a case study in radical pedagogy allows a rare glimpse into the archival records of the 1969 event. The case demonstrates ways in which an engaged approach to curating connects with the building of a community archive that enables a rereading of these events. The exhibition’s pedagogical practices allow reflection on alternative methodologies that challenge teaching-learning through community dialogue.
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A Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in the Vernacular Museum
Authors: Eugenia Kisin and Kirsty RobertsonCan a curatorial model based on radical pedagogy encourage action on climate change? To answer this question, this article critically reflects on A Museum for Future Fossils, an emergent and itinerant Malrauxian ‘museum without walls’ initiated by the authors in 2018, which is dedicated to thinking curatorially about the Anthropocene and the climate emergency. This ongoing vernacular museum includes undergraduate classes, art exhibitions, workshops, talks and a graduate summer school. By examining the potentials of land-based curatorial pedagogy through speculative museum text, we introduce a methodology of non-extractive exhibition-making.
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Affidamento as Curatorial Methodology: Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy and Curating in the Work of EMILIA-AMALIA
More LessThis article examines the possibilities of using the Italian feminist praxis of affidamento, or entrustment, as a curatorial methodology, arguing that it has the capacity to transform galleries into spaces where the generative potential of social differences is foregrounded – rather than repressed – and where intergenerational knowledge, and its attendant affects, can be shared. Reflecting on my role as a founding member of the feminist working group EMILIA-AMALIA, which, since 2016, has organized free film screenings, public talks, collective meals and writing workshops, I chart the ways Italian feminist philosophy has informed the group’s curatorial work and ask whether affidamento offers a model for pedagogical participation within the gallery that recognizes and validates the varied, and often conflicting, needs and desires of generations of feminist practitioners.
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