TY - BOOK ID - 730191 TI - Theater of exhibitions PY - 2015 SN - 9783956790874 3956790871 PB - Berlin: Sternberg, DB - UniCat KW - art criticism KW - Art KW - philosophy of art KW - exhibition curators KW - Curatorship. KW - Art, Modern KW - Conservation. KW - preserving. KW - preservation (function). KW - conservation (process). KW - conservation (discipline). KW - curating. KW - Art, Modern. KW - Exhibition techniques. KW - History KW - Techniques d'exposition. KW - Histoire KW - 1900-2099. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:730191 AB - Curator Jens Hoffman s Theater of Exhibitions considers the plight of art afterthe end of art and asks whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizingand exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. Are exhibitions still anappropriate form of assembly and embodied ritual in our 21st-century globalsociety? Drawing from his formation in theater and his own curatorial work, Hoffmannreflects on the current spaces of contemporary art the gallery, the institutionand the biennial. Ultimately he positions the discipline of curating in the contextof a larger cultural sphere one shaped by the political, social and economicconditions and demanding new attitudes and new thinking. The book alsoconsiders the commodification of the art industry and the distribution of imagesin the digital age and posits the exhibition as an anthropological endeavor, withcurator as agent. ER -