Curating and Politics.

Ausstellungspolitik aus neuer Sicht

Ever since the nineteen-nineties, curatorial discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politics is usually considered the direct result of a curator's deliberate acts and intentions. Now, however, new institutional models and modes of exhibition practice together with key shifts in funding and collecting strategies have revealed aspects of curatorial politics over which the exhibition-maker has little or no control. The present volume presents a series of essays by noted art theorists and cultural scientists that go beyond the perspective of the individual curator to reveal these previously unexplored levels of curatorial politics.

Cover
Titlepage
Preface
Contents
Heidi Bale Amundsen and Gerd Elise Mørland - Request for a Radical Redefnition Curatorial Politics after Institutional Critique
Andrea Phillips - Art and the Colonization of Value
Reesa Greenberg - Activist-Patron-Curators and North American Museums
T. J. Demos - Curating Against the Apocalypse Documenta 13, 2012
Cecilia Sjöholm - Beyond the Era of the Object Towards an Aesthetics of Anti-Commodification
Ekaterina Degot - Critical Afterword Curating as Hand-Sorting and Other Recent Developments
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