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Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating?

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.

An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.

An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century.

Anne Dressen talks about her curatorial practice (and more broadly about the world in which it takes place); Nick Mauss, with whom the curator exchanges regularly, intervenes in her text, by insertions and echoes.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.

Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice, this anthology provides new insight into the analysis of things in a curatorial context.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.

A curated collection of essays by art critics, philosophers, curators, designers, researchers and conservators, whose considerations address the transformations in the contemporary landscape of fruition and production of art.

A contemporary narrative, an artist's book, a surprising journey into a place that we thought we knew.

A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.

The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.

A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.

Catalogue of the exhibition-manifesto curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, which takes as its starting point the integration of the notion of Anthropocene in today's artistic scene: the publication proposes an exploration of the output of a new generation of artists who are working on reality, and doing away with the traditional division between the notions of “culture” and “nature.” The catalogue reviews each exhibited work in detail, and offers an enlightening glossary.

Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.

Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.

This reader brings together the first 8 issues of Postdocument, the magazine on exhibition photography.

Curating A-Z.

The exhibition as a transdisciplinary and transcultural set of spatiotemporal relations.

A special edition dedicated to curating.

The logbook and review of the first two years of the journey of the mobile contemporary art museum for children: 32 000 kilometers in 5 countries to meet 40 000 children, with 250 educational and cultural partner structures...

Ten distinguished contemporary curators answer to a series of key questions related to curating, art and exhibition making today.

The journey of the MuMo, a mobile contemporary art museum in the form of a container traveling by boat and truck to meet the children on the roads of France and Africa.

The performative dimension of the curatorial.

An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.

A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.

In the curator's archives (available in English edition).

Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.

Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

The history and contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement.

Original invitation cards of the independent contemporary art space based in the cultural alternative center Usine in Geneva.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

An anthology of texts on the problematic notion of "alterrnative", based on curatorial and artistic practices.

How to exhibit the architecture? Two Swiss architects answer this question (a conversation with Rémy Zaugg).

In his influential 1986 text, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space (available in English edition)

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create another pedagogical turning point.

A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.