Screen LibraryThe incurable-image : curating post-Mexican film and media arts /
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethgraphic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethgraphy has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh, Scotland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality
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From the 1990s onwards the 'ethgraphic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethgraphy has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists. Based on two years of participant-observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican condition', Elhaik conceptualises curation less as an exhibition-oriented practice within a national culture, than as a figure of care and an image of thought animating a complex assemblage of inter-medial practices, from experimental cinema and installations to curatorial collaborations. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabiw, the book introduces the concept of the 'Incurable-Image', an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781474403351 1474403352 |
| Index Number: | N410 |
| CLC: | G269.731 |
| Call Number: | G269.731/E41 |
| Contents: | Introduction: states of curation -- Curatorial work -- The incurable-image -- Roger Bartra: intrusion and melancholia -- Post-Mexican fugue (Farewell to ¡Que viva Mexico!) -- The curable park: Fundidora -- Untimely futures -- Epilogue. |