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The Artist as Curator

The Artist as Curator

Celina Jeffery

(2015)

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Abstract

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators, and its audience is subverted and democratized. One effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in The Artist as Curator Celina Jeffery brings together a group of scholars and artists to explore the many ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover FC
Half-title i
Title iii
Copyright iv
Contents v
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword 1
Introduction 5
Chapter 1: Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms: The Metamorphosis of Ordinary Things 15
Opening: The Limits of Objectivity 18
Commission: Metaphors and Objections 19
Technologies and Time: Exhibition/Catalogue 22
Obsessions: Heads and Images 25
Irony, Authenticity and the Stereotype 27
Memento Mori: Surrealism and Death 28
An Anthropological Imagination 29
A Social Critique of Waste 32
Images of Conflict and Combat 35
A Cosmic Philosophy: Blueprints for a New Museum 35
Acknowledgement 39
References 39
Note 43
Chapter 2: Re-Mastering MoMA: Kirk Varnedoe's ‘Artist’s Choice’ Series 45
References 56
Note 57
Chapter 3: ‘Both Object and Subject’: MoMA’s Burton on Brancusi 59
References 75
Notes 77
Chapter 4: Curating Between Worlds: How Digital Collaborations Become Curative Projects 79
References 94
Chapter 5: Erasure: Curator as Artist 97
References 110
Notes 111
Chapter 6: Say My Name 113
Notes 129
Chapter 7: Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović’s Seven Easy Pieces 131
The Curator 133
The Archive 135
Performance 138
Seven Easy Pieces 140
References 147
Notes 147
Chapter 8: Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of Display 149
Tempting Provenance 154
Material Constellations 156
Rhetorics of Display 158
A Post-Medium Wunderkammer 159
Typologies of Heterogeneity 160
References 168
Notes 170
Chapter 9: Artists Curating the Expedition 173
References 187
Notes 188
Contributors 189
Index 195
BackCover BC