Kurator

Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship

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What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the cu…

Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship

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"What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the c…

Curating As Ethics

by Martinon, Jean-Paul

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Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity be ethical and, if yes, how? This book argues that curating can be more than just selecting, organizing, and presenting informati…

Socially engaged art in contemporary China: voices from below

by Wang, Meiqin

fromRoutledge Research in art and politics

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This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious …

Museums and biographies: stories, objects, identities

fromHeritage matters series

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Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

Museums and biographies: stories, objects, identities

by Hill, Kate

fromHeritage matters series

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Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

The new curator: exhibiting architecture & design

by Watson, Fleur

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In diesem bahnbrechenden neuen Buch enthüllt Fleur Watson die Entstehung des "neuen Kurators". Anstatt fertige Werke oder Artefakte auszustellen, bietet der Aufstieg der "performativen Kuration" einen Raum, in dem experimentelle Methoden der Begegnung mit Designideen erprobt wer…

The new curator: exhibiting architecture and design

by Watson, Fleur

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Design as exhibit (curator as space-maker) -- The prosthetic (curator as interloper) -- The mediator of process/research (curator as translator) -- The hybrid to the digital (curator as speculator) -- The advocate/activist (curator as agent) -- The event as performance (curator …

The artist as curator

by Jeffery, Celina

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In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators, and its audience is subverted and democratized. One effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in T…

The anthropologist as curator

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"Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anthropology risk disappearing as a specific discipline within the general model of the curatorial? The Anthropologist as Curator colle…

Across anthropology: troubling colonial legacies, museums, and the cur…

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"How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised 'elsewhere' and 'otherwise'. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, …

Across anthropology: troubling colonial legacies, museums, and the cur…

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How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised 'elsewhere' and 'otherwise'. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, F…

Museums inside out: artist collaborations and new exhibition ecologies

by Rectanus, Mark W.

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"Museums Inside Out explores a wide range of contemporary museum practices, curatorial initiatives, and collaborative projects that are "moving out" of the museum's traditional spatial practices of archiving, exhibiting, and viewing culture. Focusing on the relationship between …

The curation and care of museum collections

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Museum curators enter the profession with a specialist subject qualification and yet at some point in their career, many curators find themselves in charge of a range of collections outside of their expert knowledge. Interpreting, curating and caring for mixed collections demand…