Claire Bishop: Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, contemporary art, curating, museology, museum
“The future of the public museum, able to represent the interests of the ninety-nine percent rather than to consolidate private privilege, has never seemed bleaker. Or has it?
In the face of austerity cuts to public funding, a handful of museums of contemporary art have devised compelling alternatives to the mantra of bigger is better and richer. Radical Museology presents the collection displays of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museo Nacional de Reina Sofía in Madrid and MSUM in Ljubljana as outlines of a new understanding of the contemporary in contemporary art.
Radical Museology is a vivid manifesto for the contemporary as a method rather than a periodization, and for the importance of a politicized representation of history in museums of contemporary art.” (from the back cover)
With drawings by Dan Perjovschi
Publisher Koenig Books, London, 2013
ISBN 3863353641, 9783863353643
79 pages
via Claire Bishop
Reviews: Sanne Kofod Olsen (Kunstkritikk, 2014), Axel Gryspeerdt (Questions de communication, 2021, FR).
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SZUM: sztuka polska w rozszerzonym polu (2013–) [Polish]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · art, art criticism, contemporary art, curating, poland
A cutting-edge magazine on contemporary art from Poland, started 2013.
Founding editors: Jakub Banasiak and Adam Mazur
Publisher Fundacja Kultura Miejsca, Warsaw
PDFs:
No 1: Akademicy (2013, PDF)
No 2: Rynek (2013, PDF)
No 3: A-Z 2013 (2013, PDF)
No 4: Instytucje (2014, PDF)
No 5: Artyści (2014, PDF)
No 6: Internet (2014, PDF)
No 7: Alfabet młodych (2014, PDF)
No 8: Drugi kanon (2015, PDF)
No 9: Kuratorzy (2015, PDF)
No 10: Mapa sztuki polskiej 2015 (2015, PDF)
No 11: Konkursy artystyczne (2015-16, PDF)
No 12: Fotografia (2016, PDF)
No 13: Performans (2016, PDF)
No 14: Architektura (2016, PDF)
No 15: Rzeźba (2016, PDF)
No 16: Malarstwo (2017, PDF)
No 17: d14 Ateny (2017, PDF)
No 18: Kuratorski epicykl. documenta 14 (Kassel) (2017, added on 2019-10-1)
No 19: Abecadło (2017-2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 20: Duma i uprzedzenie (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 21: Sztuka w Polsce 2013–2018. Pięć lat „Szumu” (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 22: Artystów praca nie hańbi (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 23: Rózgi i róże (2018, added on 2019-10-1)
No 24: Podlegli (2019, added on 2019-10-1)
Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin (eds.): Fantasies of the Library (2015)
Filed under book | Tags: · book, curating, library, reading
“Fantasies of the Library inaugurates the intercalations: paginated exhibition series. Virtually stacked alongside Anna-Sophie Springer’s feature essay about unorthodox responses to the institutional ordering principles of book collections, the volume includes an interview with Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive by Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; a conversation with media theorist Joanna Zylinska about experiments on the intersections of curatorial practice and open source e-books; and a discussion between K’s co-director Charles Stankievech and platform developer Adam Hyde on new approaches to open source publishing in science and academia. The photo essay, “Reading Rooms Reading Machines,” presents views of unusual historical libraries next to works by artists such as Kader Attia, Andrew Beccone, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, Andrew Norman Wilson, and others.”
Publisher K. Verlag and HKW, Berlin
Open access
ISBN 9780993907401
147 pages
Review: Jussi Parikka (Leonardo, 2017).
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