Curatopia : museums and the future of curatorship /
Curatopia : museums and the future of curatorship /
edited by Philipp Schorch and Conal McCarthy.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- CONCEPTUALISING CURATOPIA / Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr. Part I: -- EUROPE The museum as method (revisited) / What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things / Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debate / Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich / Curating across the colonial divides / Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary / Nicholas Thomas -- Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan -- Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose -- Hilke Thode -- Jette Sandahl -- Viv Golding and Wayne Modest. Part II: -- NORTH AMERICA The times of the curator / Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia / Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada's national museums / Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? / Joining the club: a Tongan 'akau in New England / c'?sna??m, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver / James Clifford -- Anthony Alan Shelton -- Ruth B. Phillips -- Bryony Onciul -- Ivan Gaskell -- Paul Tapsell. Part III: -- PACIFIC The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Maori curatorship past and present / Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums / Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society / Curating relations between 'us' and 'them': the changing role of migration museums in Australia - Andrea Witcomb17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting / He alo a he alo /kanohi ki te kanohi /face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations / Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch -- Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond -- Bronwyn Labrum -- Sean Mallon -- Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch.
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curatorship. It reviews the different models and approaches operating in museums, galleries and cultural organisations around the world and discusses emerging concerns, challenges and opportunities. The collection explores the ways in which the mutual, asymmetrical relations underpinning global, scientific entanglements of the past can be transformed into more reciprocal, symmetrical forms of cross-cultural curatorship in the present, arguing that this is the most effective way for curatorial practice to remain meaningful. International in scope, the volume covers three regions: Europe, North America and the Pacific. --
9781526118202
GBB921629 bnb
019128664 Uk
Curatorship.
Curatorship--Philosophy.
Museums--Collection management.
Electronic Books.
AM7 / .C873 2019
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- CONCEPTUALISING CURATOPIA / Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr. Part I: -- EUROPE The museum as method (revisited) / What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things / Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debate / Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich / Curating across the colonial divides / Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary / Nicholas Thomas -- Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan -- Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose -- Hilke Thode -- Jette Sandahl -- Viv Golding and Wayne Modest. Part II: -- NORTH AMERICA The times of the curator / Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia / Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada's national museums / Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? / Joining the club: a Tongan 'akau in New England / c'?sna??m, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver / James Clifford -- Anthony Alan Shelton -- Ruth B. Phillips -- Bryony Onciul -- Ivan Gaskell -- Paul Tapsell. Part III: -- PACIFIC The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Maori curatorship past and present / Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums / Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society / Curating relations between 'us' and 'them': the changing role of migration museums in Australia - Andrea Witcomb17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting / He alo a he alo /kanohi ki te kanohi /face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations / Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch -- Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond -- Bronwyn Labrum -- Sean Mallon -- Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch.
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curatorship. It reviews the different models and approaches operating in museums, galleries and cultural organisations around the world and discusses emerging concerns, challenges and opportunities. The collection explores the ways in which the mutual, asymmetrical relations underpinning global, scientific entanglements of the past can be transformed into more reciprocal, symmetrical forms of cross-cultural curatorship in the present, arguing that this is the most effective way for curatorial practice to remain meaningful. International in scope, the volume covers three regions: Europe, North America and the Pacific. --
9781526118202
GBB921629 bnb
019128664 Uk
Curatorship.
Curatorship--Philosophy.
Museums--Collection management.
Electronic Books.
AM7 / .C873 2019