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<p>Dedication</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Foreword</p> <p>Illustrations</p> <p>Introduction<br /><i>Brad Buckley and John Conomos</i></p> <p>About the Editors</p> <p><b>Section One: An Overview: The origin and provenance of curating</b></p> <p>1. A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie International<br /><i>David Carrier</i></p> <p>2. Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism and the Wunderkammer<br /><i>Adam Geczy</i></p> <p>3. Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United States<br /><i>Andrew McClellan</i></p> <p>4. The Emergence of the Professional Curator<br /><i>Carole Paul</i></p> <p><b>Section Two: Movements, models, people and politics</b></p> <p>5. Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation-States<br /><i>Juli Carson</i></p> <p>6. Curating without Borders: Transnational feminist and queer feminist practices for the twenty first century<br /><i>Elke Krasny</i></p> <p>7. Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial Method<br /><i>Maria Lind</i></p> <p>8. Africa, Art and Knowing Nothing. Some thoughts on curating at the British Museum<br /><i>Chris Spring</i></p> <p>9. Curatorial Crisis<br /><i>Martha Wilson</i></p> <p>10. ‘We Care as Much as You Pay - Curating Asian Art<br /><i>Thomas J. Berghuis</i></p> <p><b>Section Three: The curator in a globalized world</b></p> <p>11. Museums are everywhere in China, there is no museum in China (or, how institutional typologies define curatorial practices)<br /><i>Biljana Ciric</i></p> <p>12. Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces. Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast Asia<br /><i>Gregory Galligan</i></p> <p>13. Curated from Within: The Artist as Curator<br /><i>Alex Gawronski</i></p> <p>14. Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum<br /><i>Gerald McMaster</i></p> <p>15. The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art Curating<br /><i>Djon Mundine</i></p> <p>16. The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of Realms<br /><i>Fato? Üstek</i></p> <p>17. The Neglected Object of Curation<br /><i>Lee Weng Choy</i></p> <p><b>Section Four: Beyond the museum: Curating at the frontier </b></p> <p>18. Parallel processing: public art and new media art<br /><i>Sarah Diamond</i></p> <p>19. Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality Exhibitions<br /><i>Arnau Gifreu-Castells</i></p> <p>20. Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational Aesthetics and Politics of the Living Archive<br /><i>Erik Kluitenberg</i></p> <p>21. Curating with the Internet<br /><i>Sean Lowry</i></p> <p>22. Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineered<br /><i>Melentie Pandilovski</i></p> <p>Index</p>

<p><b>Brad Buckley</b> is an artist, urbanist, activist, curator, and Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and has authored and edited many books and essays on contemporary art.</p> <p><b>John Conomos</b> is an artist, critic, writer, and Associate Professor and Principal Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His art practice cuts across a variety of media and has been exhibited extensively around the world including at the Tate Modern, London and at MoMA, New York. He has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary art and cinema.</p>

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