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Talking Contemporary Curating

Writer

Terry Smith

Independent Curators International

Date

2015

Publisher

Independent Curators International

Format

Artists' Books

Size

5.5 × 8 in

Length

344 pgs

Genre

Theory, Criticism

Description

A dozen penetrating conversations with major international curators on the state of the arts

Since the publication of Thinking Contemporary Curating in 2012, art historian Terry Smith has continued his travels through the globalizing art world, talking to curators. The dozen searching conversations in this book—with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Claire Bishop, Zdenka Badovinac, Mami Kataoka, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Okwui Enwezor, Germano Celant, Jens Hoffmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maria Lind, Zoe Butt and Boris Groys—provide a vivid sense of contemporary curatorial thought at work. They show curators deeply immersed in thinking about the exigencies of practice, the contexts of exhibition-making, the platforms through which art may be made public, and about what their work can contribute toward understanding what it means to be alive today.

Published by Independent Curators International
By Terry Smith. Edited by Kate Fowle, Leigh Markopoulos. Preface by Kate Fowle, Terry Smith. Interviews by Terry Smith with Zdenka Badovinac, Claire Bishop, Zoe Butt, Germano Celant, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann, Mami Kataoka, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mari Carmen Ramírez.

Softcover, perfect-bound, b&w.

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