1st Edition
Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis Biennales as Agents of Change
By Felicity Fenner
Copyright 2022
132 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth.
The book is largely focused on biennales, which it argues are the contemporary exhibition models with the greatest capacity to offer new... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1: Exhibiting Nature through the Decades: from Earthworks (1968) to Down to Earth (2020); Chapter 2: Critical Ecosystems: Biennales and new curatorial strategies in response to climate change; Chapter 3: Environment and Empowerment: Biennales as legacy projects; Conclusion; Index.
Biography
Felicity Fenner is a curator based at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, where she leads postgraduate programs in curatorial and biennale studies. She is Chair of the City of Sydney’s Public Art Advisory Panel and for over two decades has curated many exhibitions of international contemporary art, including for Australia at the Venice Biennale and for the Perth Festival. Her current research into the placemaking function of public art expands on the findings of her last book Running the City: Why Public Art Matters (2017).
