Talking contemporary curating / Terry Smith

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Contents: Preface / Kate Fowle -- Acknowledgments -- The discourse / Terry Smith -- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev : On not having an idea: dOCUMENTA(13) -- Boris Groys : Exhibitions, installations, and nostalgia -- Okwui Enwezor : World platforms, exhibiting adjacency, and the surplus value of art -- Hans Ulrich Obrist : Curating as medium -- Claire Bishop : Museum models, radical spectatorship -- Zdenka Badovinac : Continuities and ruptures in museums of modern and contemporary art -- Mami Kataoka : Phantoms of Asia; curating according to what? -- Mari Carmen Ramírez : Brokering identities: translating Latin America -- Germano Celant : Re-curating attitudes, Bern 1969/Venice 2013 -- Jens Hoffmann : When ideas become form become exhibitions -- Zoe Butt : Infrastructural activism: alternative spaces and curatorial networks -- Maria Lind : Stirring the smooth surfaces of the world: the curatorial and the translocal
Summary: In Talking Contemporary Curating, Terry Smith is in conversation with 12 curators, art historians and theorists deeply immersed in reflecting upon the demands of their respective practices; the contexts of exhibition making; and the platforms through which art may be made public, including Zdenka Badovinac, Claire Bishop, Zoe Butt, Germano Celant, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann, Mami Kataoka, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Mari Carmen Ramírez.

Topic: Art--Philosophy; Art--Exhibition techniques; Art museum curators; Museum curators; Art, Modern