Background

PANEL 1:
The Autonomous Curator
 

Resources

jj Charlesworth ‘Curating Doubt’
(in J. Rugg and M. Sedgwick ‘Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Intellect Books, Bristol, 2007′)

Paul O’Neill ‘The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse’
(in J. Rugg and M. Sedgwick ‘Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Intellect Books, Bristol, 2007′)

Joao Ribas and Matt Sheridan Smith ‘You Kant Always get what you want’
(Magazine Article – Art Lies Magazine ‘Death of the Curator’ No. 59, Fall 2008)

David Levi Strauss ‘The Bias of the World’ Curating after Szeemann and Hopps’
(Magazine Article – Art Lies Magazine ‘Death of the Curator’ No. 59, Fall 2008)

Chantal Mouffe ‘Cultural workers as organic intellectuals’
(in Basti Buchmann, et al, The Artist as Public Intellectual, Vienna: Schebrugge, Editor, 2008)

Carlos Basualdo, ‘The Unstable Institution’
(in Marincola, Paula, What Makes a Great Exhibition?, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, 2006, pp. 52-61)

PANEL 2:
Mediation as Production – Collaboration, Authorship and Contingency

Reading list

The Middleman: beginning to talk about Mediation
Søren Andreasen & Lars Bang Larsen

A Space to talk: Curator, Artist, Collaborauteur
Gillian Howard

Curator as Producer
Michelle White & Nato Thompson

An interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Mel Bochner

The Emergence of Critical Discourse
Paul O Neil & Mick Wilson

On Curating
Peter Lewis

Matt Wand: La Gallerie dans ma poche Manchester/ London/ Amsterdam
Martin Vincent

On Curating: Mad Love, Orphan Letters, Open Archives
Peter Lewis

The Social Turn Collaboration and its Discontents
Claire Bishop

Letters and Responses Contingent Factors: A response to Claire Bishop’s Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Liam Gillick

PANEL 3:
Curating Friction – Between Complicity and Contingency

Reading list

Pamela M. Lee, Boundary issues: the art world under the sign of globalism
Artforum International, Nov 2003 | Text

Tim Griffin, Global tendencies: globalism and large-scale exhibition
Artforum International, Nov 2003

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Vivian Rehberg and Stefano Boeri, Moving Interventions: Curating at Large
Journal of Visual Culture, 2003 | Text

Aesthetics of the Seamless
(Norman Bryson, Mark Gisbourne, Sharon Morris, Andrew Renton, Irit Rogoff), in Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager eds.
Concepts on the Move, Lier en Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, Volume 17, Amsterdam and New York, pp. 81 – 92. | Text

Conference format, models, examples

Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators, Symposium
5 -7 March 2009, Witte de With, Rotterdam
 | Link

Cultures of the Curatorial, Conference
22 – 24 January 2010, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig | Link

Institutional Attitudes
Conference, 24 – 25 April 2010, De Beursschouwburg, Brussels | Link

Curating and Risk: A Day of Conversations
13 March 2010, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia
 | Link

Relevant texts

Irit Rogoff, Turnin
e-flux, November, 2008 | Link

Claire Bishop, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
October 110, Fall 2004, pp. 51–79 | Link

Chantal Mouffe, Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces
Art & Research, vol. 1, n. 2, Summer 2007 | Link

Maria Lind, Active Cultures
Artforum, October, 1, 2009, p. 103

Claire Doherty, New Institutionalism and the Exhibition as Situation | Link

Claire Doherty, Curating Wrong Places…Or Where Have All the Penguins Gone? | Link

Munira Mirza, Culture Vultures. Is UK arts policy damaging the arts? | Link

Fran Tonkiss, Seeing like a city: governance in London,
in Beunderman, J.; Mean, M.; Sanchez de Juan eds., BCN-LON 2020, J-A. Fundacio Ramon Trias Fargas/DEMOS, 2007, pp. 47-51 | Link

Fran Tonkiss, Cultural studies and the economic turn,
in Harrasser, K.; Riedmann, K.; Scott, A.; et al. eds., Die Politik der Cultural Studies – Cultural Studies der Politik, Turia and Kant, 2007, pp. 214-226 | Link

Maria Lind, Actualisation of Space: The Case of Oda Projesi | Link

Artworks

Michael Pinsky, Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich
Panacea (2005 – ongoing) | Link