Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures viii
4. 1 Introduction: Emergent Directions in Curatorial Thinking and Practice 1
5. Part I: Curatorial Complexities
6. 2 Unravelling: After Practice- Based Curating 23
7. 3 Conspiratorial Realities: Towards a Media History of Art 35
8. 4 Liquid Bodies Liquid Worlds: Notes 49
9. 5 Curatorial Constellations, Parataxis, Neoliberalism 58
10. 6 Curating-at-Large: Notes Towards a Sufficiently General Category 87
11. Part II: Re-centring the Curatorial
12. 7 Stolen Moments: Namibian Music History Untold 107
13. 8 Curating Incommensurable Nuclear Futures 126
14. 9 Listening to Offshore Detention: The Politics of Curation in how are you today by the Manus Recording Project Collective 151
15. 10 Curative Curation: Black Women Curators as Restorative Agents 177
16. 11 Johanna Unzueta’s Tools for Life: Engaging a Politics of Labour Within the Art Institution 187
17. 12 GABAN (strange): Holding Space for murum-gidyal (Healing) in Museums and Galleries 202
18. 13 After-Events: Biennials Beyond the Exhibition 218
19. 14 Working Together(ness): The Curatorial as a ‘Function’ 230
20. Part III: Datafication
21. 15 Desperately Seeking Audience: Analytics in the Twenty-First-Century Museum 241
22. 16 Curating on the Web as a Way to Create Interferences in Today’s Network 251
23. 17 Curating/Fermenting Data: Speculative Practices for Curatorial Futures 259
24. 18 Sleep Series: ‘art by sleepers, for sleepers and art as sleep’ 276
25. 19 The Labour of Symbiosis 284
26. 20 Curating Tech Platforms 305
27. 21 Useful Curating in the Postdigital Era 311
28. Part IV: Radical Infrastructures
29. 22 Acoustic Sympathies: Temporal, Vibrational and Improvisational Worlds 325
30. 23 Companion to an Eviscerated City: A Tragireality in Two Voices and Four Acts 336
31. 24 Preserving Citizenry: Derry Film and Video Workshop and the Quest(ion) for Institutions 356
32. 25 Something Smiles Through All the Drowsiness of the World: A Field Report 377
33. 26 From the ‘Lure for Feeling’ to Grassroots Planning: Grammars of Intention and Conjuncture in the Future Possible 386
34. 27 Object Flow: From Storage to Commons 404
35. 28 Where Is the Body of the Curator? 432
36. Part V: Fictioning the Curatorial
37. 29 Curatorial Practice as Disaster Fiction 445
38. 30 World Building: Feminist Futures on Mothership Earth 450
39. 31 Prototyping Value 457
40. 32 Parables of Curatorial Futures 465
41. Notes on Contributors 483
42. Index 501