Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines

ISBN-13: 9780367148027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str.

Lizzie Muller; Caroline Seck Langill

Opis

Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Troublesome Objects: 1. Decolonising archives: killing art to write its history; 2. Rendezvous with the Indigenous Art Collection: how to ‘raise a flag’; 3. Troublemakers in the museum: Robots, romance and the performance of liveliness; 4. Curating data-driven information-based art: Outlive or let die; Part II: Metabolizing Objects: 5. Digesting institutional critique; 6. Curatorial care and the lively materials of biomedical art; 7. Living and semi-living artefacts on display: The monster that therefore is a living epistemic thing; 8. Troubling (natural) history: Bonnie Devine, Mark Dion, and Musée de la Chasse et la Nature; 9. Social objects, art, and agriculture; Part III: Energetic Objects: 10. Mineral materialities in contemporary art: Between intra-action, discursive magic and grief; 11. Objects, energies and curating resonance across disciplines; 12. Feminist new materialism, religion and perception; 13. Digital-physical-emotional immersion in country: Bearing witness to the Appin massacre; Index.