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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"exhibition making"”.
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Technologies of Encounter: Exhibition-Making and the 18th Century South Pacific
… This representation most often takes the form of exhibitions and displays that in turn choreograph and produce new encounters with the past, in the present. Drawing on Alfred Gell’s term ‘technologies of enchantment’ my practice reconceives the structures of exhibitions as ‘technologies of …
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Turning Left: Counter-Hegemonic Exhibition-Making in the Post-Socialist Era (1989-2014)
… understanding of the how the institutional exhibition might be used to challenge the hegemony of neoliberalism and the post-political consensus politics that sustains its dominance. It provides insights, through both historic case studies and reflective practice, that problematise the idea …
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UNSEX: Exhibition-Making as a Methodological Approach to Interpret Contemporary Gender-Neutral Fashion in Museums and Gallery Spaces
… in contemporary western fashion, few fashion exhibitions have engaged critically with the topic. With this practice-based research, comprising a written thesis and a practical exhibition proposal, I aim to contribute to the field of fashion exhibition-making by developing strategies to …
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An accumulation of care: affect in the role of the contemporary curator
… threads of care found in material evidence of exhibitions, commissions, and texts. These case studies call attention to aspects of affective labour in curatorial practice that weave across three main areas: exhibition-making as a collaborative experience; the curator as critical friend; and …
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Swimming Upstream: Small Visual Art Organisations (SVAOs) in the Midst of the Ethical Turn, 1990-2016
… a missing piece in the recent history of exhibition making. Despite the diverse conditions of their emergence and the particular nature of the local situation to which they were responding, SVAOs have increasingly adopted curatorial strategies and methods of engagement with their publics …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… development of a proposal for a siteresponsive exhibition entitled Fashion & Folly. Fashion & Folly revives the eighteenthcentury bibliographic practice of extra-illustration as a metaphor, method and format for site-responsive exhibition-making. The proposal for Fashion & Folly is delivered in …
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Making Space for Daydreams
I describe and reflect on the creation of my exhibition Making Space for Daydreams, containing two large sculptures and a collection of conversational audio recordings. The sculptural artworks utilize interdisciplinary techniques and both digital fabrication and handcrafted approaches, including: …
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Woven Kin: Exploring Representation and Collaboration in Navajo Weaving Exhibitions
… is utilized to analyze six Navajo weaving exhibition installments over the past decade. Additionally, a critical reflection is offered about the development of the author's collaborative exhibition, <em>Na'ashjé'ii Biką' Biyiin (Chant of the Male Spider): A Holistic Journey with Diné Weaver …
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Embedding the personal: the construction of a 'fashion autobiography' as a museum exhibition, informed by innovative practice at ModeMuseum, Antwerp
My intention is to contribute to the field of exhibition-making a repertoire of presentation modes, previously not analysed or documented, that can be applied to the display of fashion in the museum and which will extend those techniques currently available to the exhibition-maker to create …
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A manifesto of an (un)ethical Curator: from a curator as a person - to a curator as a process
… of curatorial practitioners who work beyond exhibition-making. It was developed by adapting the framework of “The Reflective Practitioner” (by Donald Schon, 1983) to the condition of a contemporary art curator via practice-based autoethnographic methodology and curation of three original art …
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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
… of curatorial practice. Focusing primarily on exhibitions presenting art by feminist and/or women artists, the critique remains in the ways exhibitions are framed in terms of art historical narratives within museum institutions. The paradigm of feminist curating needs to be shifted to the realm …
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Contemporary Art and the Exhibitionary System: China as a Case Study
… To remedy this, I propose a sociology of exhibitions. This entails a shift of focus from the elusive subject matter of art towards the tangible exhibition, and the construction of a new framework: the exhibitionary system, which also stands for the physical, institutional, and network …
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Curating <i>The Eternal Network </i>After Globalisation
… Biennale 2015-2017 and describes a final exhibition, What is Peace? (Answer Here), held in 2018. It presents a contribution to knowledge through artistic and curatorial practice exploring online and offline exhibition-making, video, performance, correspondence art and writing. Through …
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Agents, objects and the art exhibition: towards the co-relational co-formation of things
… my research inquiry are; the artist-curator, the exhibition space/ event, object-props, agents, the post-event artefact-objects and the language used to articulate these. The relationship between these things, – their flows, fluxes and their affect, is their material agency. This allows objects to …
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The notion of 'we': Articulating ethical moments in art
… and explores what the notion contributes to art-making. The written thesis consists of four chapters, each of which is concerned with the notion of `we' in different ways. Firstly, a matter of ethics that is involved in the notion of `we' will be looked at using Derrida's reading on Levinas's …
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If We Make It, We Can Change It
… the most persistent themes of advanced art and exhibition-making of the last decade’ (2012, p.12). I will bring with this thesis a new contribution to this discourse by reflecting on the specificity and potential of the notion of ‘common’ through the production of art with non-artists. This …
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Co-production and values in museums: with special reference to the production of temporary exhibitions in Britain
… were involved in the production of temporary exhibitions. It explores the different patterns of co-production found in various museum contexts, offers an explanation for the differences based on values and discusses the implications for museum managers. The research explored the topic from a …
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Drawing as Epistemology for Morphology
… museum collection study, workshop design, and exhibition making. This mixed method approach is conducted within the context of scientific institutions like the Natural History Museum and Imperial College, London to address two research questions. The first asks what contribution an artist can …
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Exhibiting A Collective Thinking: Schizo-Culture For Now
… through writing, editorial/curatorial work and exhibition-making, directed towards rethinking theory. Taking the 1975 ‘SchizoCulture’ conference in New York as a point of departure, my thesis focusses on intersecting crises of language, knowledge and institution, arguing for these as emblematic …
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The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider
… by a particular form of curatorship and artmaking introduced by lecturers at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT in the 1990s. The exhibition making format and curatorial strategies introduced by these individuals are shown to be effective in revealing limitations placed on objects, in …
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