January 2008
2 posts
A stranger in one's own studio
“People talk about our common crisis, the crisis of these days.To say there is a crisis of singularity under spectacular democratic capitalism today is to realize that the more individual we make ourselves, the more alike we become. Not like someone in particular, just like. And in a time when the white male artist, for example, continues to align himself with all those forces that reduce...
August 2007
4 posts
I’m just reading now ‘Curating Subjects’, and in first essay (by Andreasen&Larsen) is a proposition to consider a term ‘middleman’ instead of ‘mediator’ in the context of art word. In my opinion it brings mainly economic aspect in the foreground. The term ‘mediator’ (which btw is very often according to authors used by Obrist for his precursors, I assume before 90’) is charged with heroic...
What does the curator do?
Typical work activities include: cataloguing acquisitions and keeping records; researching and writing catalogues; planning, organising, interpreting and presenting exhibitions; caring for the collection; negotiating loan items and funding; handling enquiries from researchers and the public; planning financial budgets; supervising staff and/or volunteers; giving presentations; talking to...