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Curating Subjects
Editor Paul O'Neill
London: Open Editions
Amsterdam: De Appel
Date: 2007
Price : $29
Pages : 232
Weight : 375 grams
Size : 215mm × 155mm
Design : Jon Hares

Book available in the
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ISBN 978-0-949004 -16-1


Contributors to Curating Subjects include Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen, Lars Bang Larsen, Julie Ault, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech, Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta, Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Anne Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffman, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Oberst, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson, and Mick Wilson.



Curating Subjects is an anthology of new curatorial writing that documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present, and speculative futures. Instead of following established conventions with existing publications and writing about themselves, the authors were invited to provide a text about the curatorial work of others within one of three categories: (1) Curating and under-represented historical projects/existing paradigms, (2) Under-considered current curatorial issues, and (3) Potential or desirable futures for contemporary curation. These three loosely aligned themes are intermingled in the final design and layout, resulting in a diversity of stylistic approaches to the subject. The overall result is a wide range of responses demonstrating a pluralist, dynamic, and emergent curatorial discourse, where critical essays, theoretical explorations, academic documents, proposals, historical overviews, polemics, exhibition critiques, interviews, and fictional accounts sit side by side. 


"This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature about exhibition making. Moving away from autobiographical, first person narratives, Curating Subjects instead invites its broad range of contributors to comment upon the curatorial endeavors of others. Conflating and colliding the past and the present with possible futures, this book unfolds as an idiosyncratic conversation that is at once informative, entertaining, and often revealing." 

-Matthew Higgs 


 
Paul O'Neill is a curator, artist, and writer, based in London. He teaches on the MFA Curating programme at Goldsmiths, London and is Research Fellow in Commissioning Curating, as the leader of the Locating the Producers project with Situations and University of West of England, Bristol. He has curated or co-curated over 50 exhibition projects and his writing has been published in many books, catalogues, journals and magazines including Art Monthly, Space & Culture, Everything, Contemporary, The Internationaler and CIRCA. 




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