The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts - Couverture souple

Elhaik, Tarek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474425887 ISBN 13 : 9781474425889

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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 conceptualizes 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. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabinow, the book introduces the concept of the Incurable-Image, an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tarek Elhaik is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis and a film curator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474425887
• ISBN 13: 9781474425889
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
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