Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity

ISBN-13: 9780815396192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Janet Marstine; Svetlana Mintcheva

Opis

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous. Contributors map the diverse forms such self-censorship takes and offer creative strategies for negotiating curatorial integrity.

Spis treści

Part 1: Understanding self-censorship; 1 Rethinking the curator’s remit; 2 Much ado about nothing: policing of controversial art in the UK; 3 Curating contemporary global art in Doha, Qatar: anticipated "conversations," undesirable controversies and state self-censorship; 4 No names, no titles, no further explanations; 5 Lady disrupted: self-censorship and the processes of feminist curating in South Africa; 6 Bishan project: efforts to build a utopian community under authoritarian rule; Part 2: Negotiating self-censorship; 7 Navigating censorship: a case from Palestine; 8 Truth or dare? Curatorial practice and artistic freedom of expression in Turkey; 9 The complexity of taking curatorial risks: case studies from East Asia; 10 Negotiating self-censorship in the representation of Colombian armed conflict; 11 Experimental curatorship in Russia: beyond contemporary art institutions; 12 From Carbon Sink to WASTE LAND: a case study in navigating controversy; 13 The bigger picture: rethinking curatorial approaches to photographs of childhood; 14 Smart tactics: towards an adaptive curatorial practice