- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
- Source:
- Curatopia
- Author(s):
Philipp Schorch
Conal McCarthy
Eveline Dürr
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
As museums continue to change in the twenty-first century, the ‘figure of the curator’ is in flux. This introduction explores how curating globally is being (re)conceptualised through engagement with Indigenous people in the Pacific, and collections and exhibitions in Euro-American institutions. It provides an overview of this book, which brings together curators, scholars, and critics from a range of fields in international institutions to engage in debates about curatorial histories, theories, and practices. The introduction ponders the past, present and future of museums and curatorship. It identifies, in the plurality of approaches evident in this collection, an emerging curatorial ‘heterotopia’, a critical but ethical approach to curating. This new vision of curatorial practice, Curatopia, facilitates the reinvention of museums with ethnographic collections from the colonial period, and offers pathways for future development, research and experimentation.
Keywords: Curatopia, Museum, History, Theory, Practice, concepts
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
