Journal of exhibition making
Texte auf Englisch
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The second issue of The Exhibitionist enacts something like a threshold experience, concerned as it is with the issue of art’s publics, a concern that manifests itself throughout as a tension among arguments about the efficacy of the exhibition format. On the one hand, the exhibition can be a site for “a new topography of critical curatorial methodologies, a resonant site of discursive recontextualizations,” to quote Okwui Enwezor, who writes in the section attitude on the groundbreaking exhibitions of Susan Vogel, founding director of the Museum for African Art in New York. On the other hand, when constituted within the walls of a museum or gallery, the exhibition can be seen as profoundly delimiting our experience of art. “A looming paradox facing museums,” Nato Thompson writes, “is that the discursive framing of an art museum limits the capacity of its art to be effective.” “Art in Public Space” is the topic chosen for typologies, and the three authors—Thompson along with Joshua Decter and Mary Jane Jacob—offer rigorous and at times polemical thinking on this subject, reanimating it as a site of urgency, potential, and problematics.