In this anthology, seven exhibition makers (
Yves
Aupetitallot, Mary Jane Jacob, Lu Jie,
Raimundas
Malašauskas, Alan W. Moore,
Seth
Siegelaub & Teresa Gleadowe, Jennifer (Licht) Winkworth) lay out
the motivations, conditions, logistics, and consequences of shows they
organized that now stand as icons of structural innovation in terms of
site. These exhibitions treat the museum as a studio (with works realized
on-site); appear outside the museum (in the landscape, in domestic spaces,
in the street, in the sky); and take the form of publishing or
broadcasting (in books, online, or on television), dispersing or
networking (as
mail art,
or simultaneous happenings in different cities), or interspersing
(interventions in the
public
sphere). Getting these curators on the record in their own voices
gets at the core of their innovations—how the shows came to be, and what
they became—and brings out the story and character of exhibitions that
have, in many cases, already been written about extensively, while
mitigating hagiography and historicization. This anthology provides a
useful framework for understanding the foundations and mechanisms of
current practice.
Site Read is produced by The Pew Center for
Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.
