In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators, and its audience is subverted and democratized. One effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in The Artist as Curator Celina Jeffery brings together a group of scholars and artists to explore the many ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture. Taking a deliberately multidisciplinary and cross-cultural focus, The Artist as Curator will fill a gap in museum and curatorial studies, offering a thorough and diverse treatment of various approaches to the historical and changing role of the artist as curator that should appeal to scholars, curators, and artists alike.
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms: The Metamorphosis of Ordinary Things |
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Chapter 2 Re-Mastering MoMA: Kirk Varnedoe's `Artist's Choice' Series |
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Chapter 3 `Both Object and Subject': MoMA's Burton on Brancusi |
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Chapter 4 Curating Between Worlds: How Digital Collaborations Become Curative Projects |
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Chapter 5 Erasure: Curator as Artist |
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Chapter 7 Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces |
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Chapter 8 Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of Display |
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Chapter 9 Artists Curating the Expedition |
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| Contributors |
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Celina Jeffery is an associate professor of art history at the University of Ottawa and a curator. Recent publications include Ephemeral Coast (2015), The Artist as Curator (2015), the Junk Ocean issue of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (2016) and the Towards a Blue Humanity issue of Symploke (2019). She is the founder of Ephemeral Coast (2015present, www.ephemeralcoast.com), a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-funded curatorial research project.
