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