Companion to Curation

Brad Buckley is an artist, urbanist, activist, curator, and Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and has authored and edited many books and essays on contemporary art. John Conomos is an artist, critic, writer, and Associate Professor and Principal Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His art practice cuts across a variety of media and has been exhibited extensively around the world including at the Tate Modern, London and at MoMA, New York. He has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary art and cinema.

• Series Editor’s Preface xAbout the Editors xiNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xviiForeword xviiiList of Illustrations xxIntroduction xxivPart I An Overview: The Origin and Provenance of Curating 11 A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie International 3David Carrier2 Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism, and the Wunderkammer 23Adam Geczy Copyrighted Material3 Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United States 43Andrew McClellan4 The Emergence of the Professional Curator 67Carole PaulPart II Movements, Models, People, and Politics 875 Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation States 89Juli Carson6 Curating without Borders: Transnational Feminist and Queer Feminist Practices for the Twenty‐first Century 111Elke Krasny7 Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial Method 134Maria Lind8 Africa, Art, and Knowing Nothing: Some Thoughts on Curating at the British Museum 143Chris Spring9 Curatorial Crisis 160Martha WilsonPart III The Curator in a Globalized World 16910 “We Care as Much as You Pay” – Curating Asian Art 171Thomas J. Berghuis11 Museums Are Everywhere in China, There Is No Museum in China: (or, How Institutional Typologies Define Curatorial Practices) 193Biljana Círic ́12 Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces: Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast Asia 206Gregory Galligan13 Curated from Within: The Artist as Curator 232Alex Gawronski14 Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum 262Gerald McMaster15 The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art Curating 277Djon Mundine16 The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of Realms 291Fatoş Üstek17 The Neglected Object of Curation 306Lee Weng‐ChoyPart IV Beyond the Museum: Curating at the Frontier 32318 Parallel Processing: Public Art and New Media Art 325Sara Diamond19 Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality Exhibitions 360Arnau Gifreu‐Castells20 Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational: Aesthetics and Politics of The Living Archive 375Eric Kluitenberg21 Curating with the Internet 391Sean Lowry22 Arts and Science: The Intersection (Re)engineered 422Melentie PandilovskiIndex 447