DedicationAcknowledgementsForewordIllustrationsIntroductionBrad Buckley and John ConomosAbout the EditorsSection One: An Overview: The origin and provenance of curating1. A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie InternationalDavid Carrier2. Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism and the WunderkammerAdam Geczy3. Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United StatesAndrew McClellan4. The Emergence of the Professional CuratorCarole PaulSection Two: Movements, models, people and politics5. Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation-StatesJuli Carson6. Curating without Borders: Transnational feminist and queer feminist practices for the twenty first centuryElke Krasny7. Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial MethodMaria Lind8. Africa, Art and Knowing Nothing. Some thoughts on curating at the British MuseumChris Spring9. Curatorial CrisisMartha Wilson10. 'We Care as Much as You Pay - Curating Asian ArtThomas J. BerghuisSection Three: The curator in a globalized world11. Museums are everywhere in China, there is no museum in China (or, how institutional typologies define curatorial practices)Biljana Ciric12. Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces. Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast AsiaGregory Galligan13. Curated from Within: The Artist as CuratorAlex Gawronski14. Decolonizing the Ethnographic MuseumGerald McMaster15. The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art CuratingDjon Mundine16. The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of RealmsFatos Üstek17. The Neglected Object of CurationLee Weng ChoySection Four: Beyond the museum: Curating at the frontier18. Parallel processing: public art and new media artSarah Diamond19. Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality ExhibitionsArnau Gifreu-Castells20. Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational Aesthetics and Politics of the Living ArchiveErik Kluitenberg21. Curating with the InternetSean Lowry22. Arts & Science - the Intersection (re)engineeredMelentie PandilovskiIndex
Brad Buckley is an artist, urbanist, activist, curator, and Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and has authored and edited many books and essays on contemporary art.John Conomos is an artist, critic, writer, and Associate Professor and Principal Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His art practice cuts across a variety of media and has been exhibited extensively around the world including at the Tate Modern, London and at MoMA, New York. He has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary art and cinema.