Cultures of the Curatorial: Curatorial Things

by Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (Editor)

The meaning function and status of things have changed decisively over the past two decades a development that stems from increasing skepticism about the ability of things to present culture. This questioning of thickness is an integral part of presentation and has shaped the relevance of the field of the curatorial. Eminent to presentation as a mode of being public in the world the curatorial has the potential to address visualize and investigate the central affects of the changing status and function of things. The presentational mode has played a generative role vitally participating in the mobilization of things through its Aesthetic semantic social and not the least economic dimensions intertwining transdisciplinary discourses trance cultural perspectives and methods of practice The anthology Curatorial Things provides new insight into the analysis of things.

348 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019