Essays about: "curatorial practice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words curatorial practice.
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1. "It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with" : A Feminist-Phenomenological Re-telling of Donna Haraway's Practices of Collaborative Writing and Storytelling
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : This paper explores through Donna Haraway's storytelling practices feminist approaches to collaborative writing. Employing a phenomenological qualitative research approach, the thesis aims to analyze how Haraway herself exercises feminist writing and facilitates the learning of collaborative storytelling. READ MORE
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2. Curating contemporary art, the city and the fl�neur : A walk through Bruges and its Triennial
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : Discovering the city of Bruges through the lens of its Triennial is the starting point to research the potential for contemporary art to influence one?s way of experiencing the city. Taking the case study of a still not so renowned large-scale event like the Bruges Triennial, this thesis investigates the background of this recurring event, how it started, the evolution of its curatorial process and its socio-political challenges being set, every three years, in the context of a Unesco-protected site. READ MORE
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3. Frankenstein's Mother - Mapping structures, and researching ways of creating new ones, within the interrelated entanglement of artistic practice and motherhood
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAbstract : American artist Judy Chicago once told another artist, Helen Million Ruby, that she had to choose between her children and artistic practice. When asked about this, she commented that she was not giving an ultimatum but merely stating a fact. READ MORE
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4. Curating the Subversive : Illegal Graffiti in Urban Space on the Example of Berlin and how to Approach it Curatorially
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : Within curatorial practice, graffiti has come to little attention. On the occasion of the street art hype during the 2000s, graffiti appeared only as a minor component. Considering, that graffiti remains an undefined and mostly illegal and uninstitutionalized practice, the fact that it is not a common exhibition topic seems self-evident. READ MORE
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5. Disorientating Love : Queer Time and Space in Contemporary Artistic Practices
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : This thesis aims to examine key elements of disorientation and queer temporality which will provide tools to understand queerness of selected contemporary artistic practices. It is concerned with the following questions: What constitutes the queerness of an artistic practice? How do contemporary queer artistic practices foreground the perspectives of queerness in their forms? What kind of disruptions they are causing in the conventional setting of artistic displays from a curatorial standpoint? Disorientations and queer temporalities, as queering the artwork, mean challenging dominant ideologies of the art object by repositioning them particularly in respect of heteronormative structures of time and space. READ MORE
