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Journal of Curatorial Studies - Volume 1, Issue 3, 2012
Volume 1, Issue 3, 2012
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Museum Expansion in the Twenty-First Century: Abu Dhabi
More LessThe government of Abu Dhabi, in partnership with powerful western institutions, has embarked on a breathtaking scheme to build four world-class museums and a perform-ing art centre as cornerstones of the development of a new culture-leisure-tourism com-plex on Saadiyat Island. The sudden rise of the Persian Gulf states as hubs of global art and museum development has attracted the attention, not to say skepticism, of the art world. This article explores the political and economic motives and historical context behind the projects as well as some of the challenges they face in the years to come.
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When Curating Meets Piracy: Rehashing the History of Unauthorized Exhibition-Making
More LessThis article outlines key historical instances of the practice of unauthorized exhibition-making and examines related curatorial approaches. Taking the practice of appropriation by artists and various national court cases, statutes and international agreements as points of reference, it examines how the legal and ethical rights held by artists may impinge on curators' freedom of expression. It proposes that where curators re-use an artwork in a curated project without the artist's authorization, but with a measure of criticality, those actions may be justified. A deviation in the history of exhibition-making is revealed where the freedom of expression of the curator is not subordinate to that of the artist.
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Behaving Badly: Animals and the Ethics of Participatory Art
More LessThis article examines the artistic and curatorial strategy of inviting harm to animals in participatory art installations. Marco Evaristti's controversial Helena (2000), at the Trapholt Museum, demonstrates how the use and mistreatment of animals in art can generate intense debates over animal rights and artistic freedom. The modernist space of the museum, with its presumption of autonomy, can become, in these instances, a site of moral exceptionalism that produces problematic social and legal behaviour in the audience. The deliberate inclusion of animals in provocative and threatening situations poses an ethical quandary in both art and society at large, as well as raising difficult questions about conduct and responsibility within museums.
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Socially Engaged Art, Emerging Forms of Civil Society: Early 1990s Exhibitions in Budapest and Bucharest
More LessThrough a contextual reading and critical analysis of two post-1989 art exhibitions in Hungary and Romania, Polyphony (1993) and Exhibition 01010101 (1994), this article explores the distinct role played by curatorial discourses and socially engaged contemporary art in catalyzing locally emerging forms of democracy in the early 1990s. These exhibitions reveal the paradox of civil society in the wake of communism. Embracing a neoliberal approach, they juxtapose a desire for collective change against a longing to participate in the contemporary international art scene.
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Été 70: The Plein-Air Exhibitions of Supports-Surfaces
More LessIn the summer of 1970, artists of the collective Supports-Surfaces installed ephemeral works across the French Mediterranean coastline, a prelude to their first Paris exhi-bition as a named group. Curated by Claude Viallat and Jacques Lepage, and entitled Intérieur/Extérieur, artworks were situated on beaches, hill towns, riverbeds and landscapes in the lower Alps. This article examines how this peripatetic exhibi-tion, and its subsequent re-installation in Travaux de l’Été 70 (1971) at the Jean Fournier Gallery, interrogated the conventional practice of painting by dismantling its material components, challenging its social and political ideology, and sanction-ing artistic autonomy.
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EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Authors: Catherine Tedford, Christine Conley and Andrew Bieler7th BERLIN BIENNALE: FORGET FEAR Curated by Artur Żmijewski in collaboration with associate curator Joanna Warsza and the art collective Voina, presented at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art and other venues (27 April-1 July 2012), Berlin
PRETERNATURAL Curated by Celina Jeffery, Canadian Museum of Nature (9 December 2011-4 March 2012), St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts (10 December 2011-17 February 2012), and Patrick Mikhail Gallery (4 January-7 February 2012), Ottawa
U-N-F-O-L-D: A CULTURAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Curated by David Buckland and Chris Wainwright, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, New York (30 September-15 December 2011). An exhibition first shown at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (18 May-8 June 2010) and traveling to seven locations, most recently at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool (8 March-26 April 2012).
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BOOK REVIEWS
Authors: Bojana Videkanic, Charles Reeve, Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, Cynthia Roberts and Harry J. WeilGENDER, SEXUALITY AND MUSEUMS: A ROUTLEDGE READER, AMY K. LEVIN (ED.) London and New York: Routledge (2010), 336 pp., ISBN: 0415554926, Paperback, $49.95
RE-PRESENTING DISABILITY: ACTIVISM AND AGENCY IN THE MUSEUM, RICHARD SANDELL, JOCELYN DODD AND ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMPSON (EDS) London and New York: Routledge (2010), 284 pp., Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-415-49473-1, $42.95
THE STORY OF IRISH MUSEUMS 1790-2000: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND EDUCATION, MARIE BOURKE Cork: Cork University Press (2011), ISBN: 978-1-8591-8475-2, 594 pp., Hardcover, US$59.00
'CURATING ARCHITECTURE', LOG, 20, CYNTHIA DAVIDSON (ED.) Fall (2010), 168 pp., ISSN: 1547-4690, $15.00
FRANKLIN FURNACE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AVANT-GARDE: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, TONI SANT London: Intellect Books (2011), 184 pp., Paperback, ISBN: 978-1841503714, £24.95
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