> CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROJECTS
> Invisible Culture, Issue 11, Fall 2007
> http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
> Deadline for Papers: May 20, 2007
> Issue 11: Curator and Context
> In his 1965 book Museum Without Walls, Andrι Malraux critiques
> museum conventions of display that deaden art of the past. In fact,
> over time the artworks have morphed, affected by their
> surroundings, and taken on new lives as different kinds of
> aesthetic objects. Three years later, Roland Barthes would identify
> the death of the author and the emergence of the reader in the
> making of meaning. These writers' prescient articulations of the
> fusions - and confusions - of art object, context, artist, and
> viewer foresaw today's hyper-interaction of art media and the
> overlapping of roles in the museum and beyond. What these texts
> leave out is the seemingly unmarked presence of an intermediary
> between the artwork and the viewer the curator and the world
> she has traditionally inhabited the museum.
> "The gallery space is no longer 'neutral,'" wrote Brian O'Doherty
> in 1976, at a time when artistic practice turned the ideology of
> the gallery space upon its head. While underlining the pertinence
> of the museum's physical and contextual impact on the reception of
> art, he too neglects the curator. Douglas Crimp's seminal text On
> the Museum's Ruins laid bare the changing state of the museum by
> examining shifts in art practice and the rising significance of
> photography as challenges to the institution. To continue
> rethinking the museum as a site for art display and the interlinked
> roles of the artist, artwork, curator, and viewer follows in the
> steps of these theorists and their peers, to say the least of the
> decades of artists who have interrupted conventional modes of
> display in museums through strategic creative applications. As
> globalization gives way to new cosmopolitanisms, and new media art
> transforms the site of the museum into the virtual realm, what has
> become of the curator? By some accounts the role of the curator may
> be in decline as alternative art spaces, tactical art
> interventions, and virtual museums refute her role and the
> institutional power it implies. The other side might see instead a
> curatorial practice that takes on a multiplicity of roles as
> artist, as architect, as nation - and has increased significance in
> the frenzied world of the international art fair.
> Invisible Culture invites papers and projects concerned with
> contemporary (post-1960s) curatorial and museum practice.
> Submissions in the form of 2,500-6,000 word papers from all
> disciplines, as well as digital projects (virtual museums, online
> art exhibitions, and internet-based endeavors, for example) are
> welcome.
> Entries may include but are not limited to investigations of the
> following topics: the relevance and changing role of the curator
> artist as curator curator as translator criticism and
> interpretation of exhibitions models of curating and display
> new media projects, the virtual museum ethics of display
> histories of curating visual anthropology sense studies,
> anthropologies of the senses changes in culture and science
> museums, museums of natural history curator as mediator of
> cultural exchange architecture and context global visual
> culture problems of cultural translation alternative exhibition
> sites challenges to exhibition display: performance, video and
> installation art the interactive exhibit hybrid art forms and
> multimedia displays museum studies communication/audience
> studies cultivation of art audiences curating and the expansion
> of global art markets collections, collectors and curators
> curating the biennial/international art fair cosmopolitanism,
> diasporas of artists and curators at home and abroad display and
> the politics of identity authorship emerging area and regional
> curatorial networks developments in institutional critique the
> location of the frame
> Submissions and inquiries should be directed to Mara Gladstone,
> Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University
> of Rochester at [log in to unmask]
> Deadline for submission is May 20, 2007.
> *Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture* is a
> peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and
> political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which
> cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical
> contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or
> modes of social interaction to which they contribute.
> http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
> -- Mara Gladstone Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies
> Adjunct Professor,
> Studio Arts University of Rochester 424 Morey Hall Rochester, NY
> 14627 USA
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