Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and
methods of practice, this anthology provides new insight into the analysis
of things in a
curatorial context.
The meaning, function, and status of things have changed decisively over
the past two decades—a development that stems from increasing skepticism
about the ability of things to present culture. This questioning of
thingness is an integral part of presentation and has shaped the relevance
of the field of the curatorial. Immanent to presentation as a mode of
being (public) in the world, the curatorial has the potential to address,
visualize, and investigate the central effects of the changing status and
function of things. The presentational mode has played a generative role,
vitally participating in the mobilization of things through its aesthetic,
semantic, social, and, not least, economic dimensions. Intertwining
transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of
practice, the anthology Curatorial Things provides
new insight into the analysis of things.
Contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Annette Bhagwati,
Beatrice von Bismarck, Bill Brown, Sabeth Buchmann, Clémentine Deliss, André
Lepecki,
Maria Lind,
Sven
Lütticken, Florian Malzacher, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Sarah Pierce,
Peter J. Schneemann, Jana Scholze, Kavita Singh, Lucy Steeds, Leire
Vergara, Katharina Weinstock, Judith Welter.
