- 302 pages
- English
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The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design
About this book
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on displaying finished outcomes or communicating a work through representation.
In this ground-breaking new book, Fleur Watson unveils the emergence of the 'new curator'. Instead of exhibiting finished works or artefacts, the rise of 'performative curation' provides a space where experimental methods for encountering design ideas are being tested. Here, the role of the curator is not that of 'custodian' or 'expert' but with the intent to create a shared space of encounter with audiences.
To illustrate this phenomenon, the book explores a diverse, international range of exhibitions. Divided into six themes, a series of project profiles are contextualized through conversations with influential curators and cultural producers such as Paola Antonelli, Kayoko Ota, Mimi Zeiger, Catherine Ince, Aric Chen, Zoë Ryan, Beatrice Leanza, Prem Krishnamurthy, Marina Otero Verzier, Brook Andrew, Carroll Go-Sam, Rory Hyde, Eva Franch i Gilabert, Patti Anahory and Paula Nascimento.
Featuring over 100 color illustrations, this highly designed, beautiful book offers an innovative contribution to the field. An essential read for students and professionals in architecture, design, art, visual culture, museum studies, curatorial studies and cultural theory. The book also features a foreword by Deyan Sudjic and an afterword by Leon van Schaik AO.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design
- Curating and collecting contemporary design in the local/global context. Aric Chen (Shanghai) in conversation with Kayoko Ota (Tokyo, Japan)
- Meta-curation for inclusion and diversity. Catherine Ince (London, UK) in conversation with Prem Krishnamurthy (New York, US/Berlin, Germany)
- Fridge in a tree: On curating and memory, remembrance and representation. Brook Andrew (Melbourne, Australia) in conversation with Carroll Go-Sam (Brisbane, Australia)
- Curating potential. Rory Hyde (London, UK) in conversation with Eva Franch i Gilabert (London, UK)
- Curatorial labour. Mimi Zeiger (Los Angeles, USA) in conversation with Marina Otero Verzier (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- The design of cultural agency. Zoë Ryan (Chicago, USA) in conversation with Beatrice Leanza (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Performing and exhibiting ‘design ideas’. Paola Antonelli (New York, USA) in conversation with Fleur Watson (Melbourne, Australia)
- Independence as a disruptive curatorial practice in the Global South. Patti Anahory (Praia, Cape Verde) in conversation with Paula Nascimento (Luanda, Angola)
- Selected Bibliography
- Credits and Acknowledgements
- Index