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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Curatorial practice"”.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's Approach Toward Contemporary Curatorial Practice
This study is an analysis of contemporary curatorial practice at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York. The Guggenheim Museum demonstrates how contemporary museums are updating exhibition practice, despite the difficulties of spatial engagement encountered in Frank Lloyd Wright's …
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Feminist Interventions in Curatorial Practice at Appalachian University Art Institutions
… analyze the practical applications of feminist curatorial methodologies in comparison to established feminist curatorial scholarship Three case studies focus on the Reece Museum at Eastern Tennessee State University, the Art in the Libraries initiative at West Virginia University, and the …
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DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1902-1967
… museums in the early twentieth century, and the curatorial practices of landmark photographic shows organized by Alfred Stieglitz of the Photo-Secessionist movement, Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration, and Beaumont Newhall, Edward Steichen, and John Szarkowski of the Department of …
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Graphic medicine exhibited: public engagement with comics in curatorial practice and visitor experience since 2010.
… scholars and medical practitioners. However, curatorial practice and public responses to graphic medicine have so far gone unaddressed by scholarship, which has primarily focused on private and academic engagement. The project explores the curatorial practices and intentions that facilitate …
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See me, feel me, touch me, heal me: working with affect, emotion, and creation of transformative energies as a feminist curatorial practice
This research presents the gap contemporary curatorial discourses have in terms of feminist theory and work, as well as the gap principal contemporary discourses on feminisms and curating have in terms of discursive curatorial practices and independent curatorship. I argue, that the current …
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An accumulation of care: affect in the role of the contemporary curator
… an affective approach to contemporary curatorial practice that is shaped by an accumulation of care. By retracing my working methods and noticing small shifts or interruptions, I reveal transformative, incremental changes in my work as a curator. I introduce curatorial practice where …
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Testing the Curatorial in Artists’ Film and Video Installation
… published work critically examines ten years of curatorial practice in the field of artists' film and video by the author. The aim of the thesis and publications is to question and challenge the contemporary integration of artists’ film and video installation into the language of the visual arts, …
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Putting it together: examining new media arts and creative practice
… a period of ten years and that address new media practice. The projects include new media arts exhibitions and publications. The argument of the Exegesis is that taken together these works demonstrate how curatorial practice operates in an integrated way between practice and theory and that it is …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… arts organization, WoCA Projects, an alternative curatorial initiative in Fort Worth, Texas, that highlights the contributions of WoC and underrepresented artists. Responses of visitors to exhibitions at WoCA Projects were evaluated based on on-site and internet surveys. The researcher also …
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Nothing Short of Complete Liberation: The Burroughsian Ideal of Space as Curatorial Strategy in Audial Art
This research contributes to an understanding of curatorial strategy and sound art practices by using an inferential approach to curating. The study uses analysis of the theories and tape experiments of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) to explore curatorial problems occurring within sound-related …
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Curating Arts on the Edge of an Unstable Society
The curatorial practice and research of Project 7½ in Korea and Indonesia, from 2014 to 2019, aimed to consider the value of art in humanistic and existential terms, with the exhibitions and events seeking to positively impact the lives of local communities. In this respect, the commentary reflects …
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Patterns as Documents and Drawings: An artistic exploration of tailoring patterns as historical documents and drawings abstracting the human form. An analysis from the perspective of a creative art practitioner
This practice-led thesis places archival research within the framework of a contemporary art practice and proposes an interpretive reading of tailoring patterns as informative documents and inspiring drawings in their own right. Conventionally, patterns are treated only as a means to an end, aiding …
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The Experience of interactive art: a curatorial study
… art offers challenges and opportunities for curatorial practice in museums and galleries. The research reported in this thesis investigates the audience's experience of artworks in order to develop a critical framework for, and a curatorial approach to interactive art. It draws on insights, …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
This practice-based, cross-disciplinary thesis contributes to the fields of fashion curatorship and fashion studies through the development of a proposal for a siteresponsive exhibition entitled Fashion & Folly. Fashion & Folly revives the eighteenthcentury bibliographic practice of …
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RE/placing public art: the role of place specificity in new genre public art
… of public art. Based on both theory and curatorial practice, this thesis explores a range of perspectives on the role of place within socially engaged public art practice. The study examines the difference between site and place and how place influences our perceptions of specific …
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Curating Contemporary Japanese Art: Exhibition Catalogue Production for Hidden Landscapes: Yasuaki Onishi and Invisible Space
… present on the Western art stage. Meanwhile, curatorial practice, once focused on the <em>care </em>of objects, is shifting to encompass a wider range of creative activity. Curators are taking time to engage with living artists in a collaborative setting, rather than as impartial facilitators. …
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Art and Intervention in the Stewardship of the Planetary Commons: Towards a Curatorial Model of Co-inquiry
… of work sought to understand what form of curatorial model and interpretative framework could generate new artworks and co-produce interdisciplinary knowledge across areas of specialist research and geopolitical urgency. The projects take the form of exhibitions, texts and edited books, …
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Prototyping the Exhibition: a practice-led investigation into the framing and communication of design as a process of innovation
… traditions of display stemming from fine art practices, as well being influenced by those in commercial environments. Consequently the thesis argues that there is a prevailing tendency to display the outcomes of design activity, to celebrate aesthetics and functionality, and to concentrate on …
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Curatorial Interruption: Critical analysis of sources of decision-making bias in dress/fashion curators and examination of the impact of curatorial bias on wearer/object biography in worn clothing acquired by institutional collections in the United Kingdom
… area in dress and fashion curatorship: how curatorial bias impacts the interpretation of wearer and object biography. This thesis responds to the growing focus on object biography and underrepresented histories in the discipline through examination of the experts charged with analysing, …
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Tacit to Explicit: How Can ‘Gan Jue Cinema’ be Illuminated?
This practice-based research unveils and enriches Gan Jue as a moving image practice. Gan Jue is a concept diffused in Chinese culture whose exact essence is debated and elusive. It does not translate to English easily, and is approximated as ‘feeling’, ‘sensation’, or ‘perception’. It has ancient …
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