Schorch / Unknown / McCarthy Curatopia

Museums and the future of curatorship
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1820-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Curatopia explores how curating globally is being (re)conceptualised through engagement with indigenous people in the Pacific and collections and exhibitions in Euro-American institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Schorch, Philipp

McCarthy, Conal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia – Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr

Part I: Europe
1 The museum as method (revisited) – Nicholas Thomas
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things – Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debate – Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich – Hilke Thode-Arora
5 Curating across the colonial divides – Jette Sandahl
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary – Viv Golding and Wayne Modest

Part II: North America
7 The times of the curator – James Clifford
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia – Anthony Alan Shelton
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums – Ruth B. Phillips
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? – Bryony Onciul
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England – Ivan Gaskell
12 c’?sna??m, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver – Paul Tapsell

Part III: Pacific
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Maori curatorship past and present – Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums – Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society – Bronwyn Labrum
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia ­– Andrea Witcomb
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting – Sean Mallon
18 He alo a he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations – Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch

Afterwords
19 Curating time – Ian Wedde
20 Virtual museums and new directions? – Vilsoni Hereniko
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philipp Schorch is Professor of Museum Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany
Conal McCarthy is Professor and Director of the Museum and Heritage Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand