The Incurable-Image : Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts Digital (delivered electronically)
by Tarek Elhaik
Part of the Edinburgh East Asian Studies series
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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.
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.
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- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781474425889
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781474425889