1st Edition
Curating Lively Objects Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines
List of Figures;
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Troublesome Objects
Chapter 1
Decolonising archives: killing art to write its history
Brook Garru Andrew and Paris Lettau
Chapter 2
Rendezvous with the Indigenous Art Collection: how to ‘raise a flag’
Ryan Rice
Chapter 3
Troublemakers in the museum: Robots, romance and the performance of liveliness
Anna Davis and Lizzie Muller
Chapter 4
Curating data-driven information-based art: Outlive or let die
Sarah Cook
Part II: Metabolizing Objects
Chapter 5
Digesting institutional critique
Lisa Myers
Chapter 6
Curatorial care and the lively materials of biomedical art
Bec Dean
Chapter 7
Living and semi-living artefacts on display: The monster that therefore is a living epistemic thing
Oron Catts, Chris Salter and Ionat Zurr
Chapter 8
Troubling (natural) history: Bonnie Devine, Mark Dion, and Musée de la Chasse et la Nature
Caroline Seck Langill
Chapter 9
Social objects, art, and agriculture
Lucas Ihlein and Caroline Seck Langill
Part III: Energetic Objects
Chapter 10
Mineral materialities in contemporary art: Between intra-action, discursive magic and grief
Randy Lee Cutler
Chapter 11
Objects, energies and curating resonance across disciplines
Katie Dyer and Lizzie Muller
Chapter 12
Feminist new materialism, religion and perception
Sally McKay
Chapter 13
Digital-physical-emotional immersion in country: Bearing witness to the Appin massacre
Tess Allas and Lizzie Muller
Index
Biography
Lizzie Muller is a curator and researcher specialising in audience experience, reflective-curatorial practice and changing disciplinary formations in museums. She is Associate Professor at UNSW, Sydney.
Caroline Seck Langill is a writer and curator who researches intersections between art and science, and the related fields of media art history. She is Professor at OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario.
