Curating lively objects : exhibitions beyond disciplines

Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge. Bringing together leading artists and curators from Australia and Canada, this volume addresses object liveliness from a range of entwined perspectives, including new materialism, decolonial thinking, Indigenous epistemologies, environmentalism, feminist critique and digital aesthetics. Foregrounding practice-based curatorial scholarship the book focuses on rigorous reflexive accounts of how curating is done. It contributes to global topics in curatorial research including time and memory beyond and before disciplinarity; the relationship between human and non-human across different ontologies; and the interaction between Indigenous knowledge and disciplinary expertise in interpreting museum collections. Curating Lively Objects will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of curatorial studies, museum studies, cultural heritage, art history, Indigenous studies, material culture and anthropology. It also provides a vital resource for professionals working in museums and galleries around the world who are seeking to respond creatively, ethically, and inclusively to the challenge of changing disciplinary boundaries. -- Provided by publisher.

Decolonising archives : killing art to write its history / Brook Andrew and Paris Lettau -- Rendezvous with the indigenous art collection : how to 'raise a flag' / Ryan Rice -- Troublemakers in the museum : robots, romance and the performance of liveliness / Anna Davis and Lizzie Muller -- Curating data-driven information-based art : outlive or let die / Sarah Cook -- Digesting institutional critique / Lisa Myers -- Curatorial care and the lively materials of biomedical art / Rebecca Dean -- Living and semi-living artefacts on display : the monster that therefore is a living epistemic thing / Oron Catts, Chris Salter and Ionat Zurr -- Troubling (natural) history : Bonnie Devine, Mark Dion, and Musée de la chasse et la nature / Caroline Seck Langill -- Social objects, art, and agriculture / Lucas Ihlein and Caroline Seck Langill -- Mineral materialities in contemporary art : between intra-action, discursive magic and grief / Randy Lee Cutler -- Objects, energies and resonance across disciplines / Katie Dyer and Lizzie Muller -- Feminist new materialism, religion and perception / Sally McKay -- Digital-physical-emotional immersion in country : bearing witness to the Appin massacre / Tess Allas and Lizzie Muller.

Subject(s)

Museums--Curatorship.
Museum exhibits.
Museums--Social aspects.

URI

https://repository.museumsiam.org/handle/6622252777/692

Collections

Museum Education

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