Theater of Exhibitions
| Author | Jens Hoffmann |
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| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9783956790874 |
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Theater of Exhibitions analyzes "art after the end of art," questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age. Drawing from his formation in theater and his own curatorial work, Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art—the gallery, the institution, the biennial—and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking. Hoffmann's theater posits the exhibition as an anthropological endeavor, and the curator as its agent. "Jens Hoffmann inventively connects the epic theater of Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator with the most recent developments in curatorial practice in a book that flows forcefully with the insights gained from his extensive and remarkable curatorial experience." —Jessica Morgan
| 88 p, ills colour, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English |
€22.50
Product number:
idea41725
