The Incurable-Image

The Incurable-Image Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts - Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

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Publisher's Synopsis

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethnography has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists. Based on two years of participant observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican condition', Elhaik conceptualises curation less as an exhibition-oriented practice within a national culture than as a figure of care and an image of thought animating a complex assemblage of inter-medial practices, from experimental cinema and installations to curatorial collaborations.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474425889
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 708.972
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 198
Weight: 478g
Height: 233mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 21mm