Proposing a History of Exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions.
Contributors Etienne Chambaud, Elitza Dulguerova, Anselm Franke, Tristan Garcia, Fabien Giraud & Rapha l Siboni, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Yuk Hui, Pierre Huyghe, Sami Khatib, Jeremy Lecomte, St phane Lojkine, Rafael Mandressi, Vincent Normand, Peter Osborne, Filipa Ramos, Juliane Rebentisch, Jo o Ribas, Pamela Rosenkranz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Lucy Steeds, Olivier Surel, Etienne Turpin, Kim West, Charles Wolfe.
It undertakes a transdisciplinary History at the nexus of art history, science studies, and philosophy, exploring the role the exhibition played in the construction of the conceptual categories of modernity, and outlines a historiographical model that conceptualizes the exhibition as both an aesthetic and an epistemic site.
This volume gathers and expands upon the results of the research project Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions, held at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and proposes a History of Exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions.
Proposing a History of Exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions