Paul O'Neill Knihy

The autobiography captures the vibrant experiences of Paul O'Neill during his youth in Newfoundland and his early adulthood in the United States and England. It highlights his idyllic childhood in Bay de Verde, his formative years in wartime St. John's, and his journey to becoming an actor in New York. O'Neill's unexpected return to Canada led to a successful career in television with CBC. The memoir reflects on the cultural landscape of the 1940s and 50s, celebrating the music, movies, and social norms of the time.

Данная книга представляет собой подробный анализ становления современного кураторского дискурса с конца 1980-х, когда, собственно говоря, независимое кураторство и возникло. На ее страницах показано, как благодаря дискурсу, в центре которого оказалась фигура куратора, произошла кардинальная смена в понимании кураторства как такового. Сегодня — и читатель в этом убедится — кураторство можно с полной уверенностью рассматривать как особую практику медиации, возникшую в результате усилий художников, кураторов и тех, кто сочетает в себе эти две ипостаси, а также кураторских коллективов, которые продолжают ставить под вопрос границы и пределы произведения искусства, изменяя наше понимание взаимодействия между различными акторами и институтами в поле культурного производства.

How curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: an examination of the emergence contemporary curatorship.

"Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it."--Cover

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-making itself and the politics of production, display, and distribution. The Curatorial Conundrum looks at the burgeoning field of curatorship and tries to imagine its future. Indeed, practitioners and theorists consider a variety of futures: the future of curatorial education; the future of curatorial research; the future of curatorial and artistic practice; and the institutions that will make these other futures possible. The contributors examine the proliferation of graduate programs in curatorial studies over the last twenty years, and consider what can be taught without giving up what is precisely curatorial, within the ever-expanding parameters of curatorial practice in recent times. They discuss curating as collaborative research, asking what happens when exhibition operates as a mode of research in its own right. They explore curatorial practice as an exercise in questioning the world around us; and they speculate about what it will take to build new, innovative, and progressive curatorial research institutions. ContributorsNancy Adajania, Melanie Bouteloup, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Luis Camnitzer, Eddie Chambers, Zasha Cerizza Colah, Galit Eilat, Liam Gillick, Koyo Kouoh, Miguel A. Lopez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O'Neill, Tobias Ostrander, Joao Ribas, Sarah Rifky, Sumesh Sharma, Simon Sheikh, Lucy Steeds, Jeannine Tang, David The, Jelena Vesic & Vladimir Jeric Vlidi, What, How & for Whom/WHW, Mick Wilson, Vivian Ziherl Copublished with the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College/Luma Foundation

Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology - taking its title from Mary Douglas's 1986 book, How Institutions Think - reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology. Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers, How Institutions Think addresses such questions as whether institution building is still possible, feasible, or desirable; if there are emergent institutional models for progressive art and curatorial research practices; and how we can establish ethical principles and build our institutions accordingly.