Kurzbeschreibung

Since the so-called curatorial turn in the 1990s, curators of art exhibitions often receive more attention than the featured artists. With its focus on singular autonomous figures, the widespread notion of the 'curator as an artist' reproduces modernist conceptions of authorship unsuitable to account for the specific mediality of exhibitions. I assume that curatorial formats bear distinctive potentials to call into question ideas of intentional control, heroic myths of creation, and supposedly neutral display. Therefore, my research investigates the modes in which these potentialities become manifest in the field of curating. Informed by gender-studies approaches and debates on cultural agency, the aim of my dissertation is to explore how particularly relational conceptions of the curatorial may contribute to rethinking authorship in a way that acknowledges the complexities of cultural practices of meaning-making.

Projektdetails

Projektart

Dissertation

Fachgruppe

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften

Fachliche Zuordnung

Cultural Studies

Beginn

2012

Finanzierung

International Research Training Group Interart / DFG

Einrichtung

Fachbereich/Zentralinstitut

Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften

Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich

International Research Training Group Interart Studies

Projektteam

Leitung

Nanne Buurman

Forschende

• Nanne Buurman

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