| The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts Contributor(s): Elhaik, Tarek (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474403352 ISBN-13: 9781474403351 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Reference - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 708.972 |
| LCCN: 2016427400 |
| Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.01 lbs) 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
