1st Edition

space.time.narrative the exhibition as post-spectacular stage

By Frank den Oudsten Copyright 2012
512 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally represented by the entirely different realms of curator and designer. Future successful developments in exhibition-making are dependent on whether this... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Hans Peter Schwarz; Introduction; Essay 1: the battery; Picture-essay 1: parallax; Interviews: dark matter; Picture-essay 2: afterimage; Essay 2: the envelope; Select bibliography; Index.

Biography

Frank den Oudsten, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland

'This book breaks new ground by looking at the exhibition as a cultural format, firstly within a great sweep of the arts in general, weaving a web of philosophical, museological, linguistic and media theoretical references, which expands the contextual field of the profession.' Lonaard Magazine