Curatopia : museums and the future of curatorship /
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curato...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : conceptualising Curatopia / Philipp Schorch, Conal McCarthy and Eveline Dürr
- 1. The museum as method (revisited) / Nicholas Thomas
- 2. What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things / Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan
- 3. Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums : an epistemology of postcolonial debate / Larissa Förster and Friedrich von Bose
- 4. Walking the fine line : From Samoa with love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich / Hilke Thode-Arora
- 5. Curating across the colonial divides / Jette Sandahl
- 6. Thinking and working through difference : remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary / Viv Golding and Wayne Modest
- 7. The times of the curator / James Clifford
- 8. Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia / Anthony Alan Shelton
- 9. Swings and roundabouts : pluralism and the politics of change in Canada's national museums / Ruth B. Phillips
- 10. Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator : foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? / Bryony Onciul
- 11. Joining the club : a Tongan ʻakau in New England / Ivan Gaskell
- 12. C'esna?em, the City before the City : exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver / Paul Tapsell
- 13. The figure of the kaitiaki : learning from Maori curatorship past and present / Conal McCarthy, Arapata Hakiwai and Philipp Schorch
- 14. Curating the uncommons : taking care of difference in museums / Billie Lythberg, Wayne Ngata and Amiria Salmond
- 15. Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society / Bronwyn Labrum
- 16. Curating relations between 'us' and 'them' : the changing role of migration museums in Australia / Andrea Witcomb
- 17. Agency and authority : the politics of co-collecting / Sean Mallon
- 18. He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face : curatorial bodies, encounters and relations / Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Moana Nepia and Philipp Schorch
- 19. Curating time / Ian Wedde
- 20. Virtual museums and new directions? / Vilsoni Hereniko.
