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Raising Frankenstein

Curatorial Education and Its Discontents

edited by Kitty Scott

Publisher
Banff Centre Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2011
Category
General, Criticism & Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9783865609182
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $24.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894773324
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $24.95

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Edited by Kitty Scott and including essays by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Lourdes Morales; this book offers an overview of thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on debates surrounding this subject.The five essays, complemented by a collective discussion, provide a set of cogent inquiries and analyses for all those, from students to practitioners, who concern themselves with the presentation and theorization of contemporary art. At its heart lies the single question, "Where does the curatorial profession reside?"Co-produced with Koenig Books, Cologne, Raising Frankenstein is developed from the 2008 conference Trade Secrets: Education/Collection/History, organized by the Banff International Curatorial Institute, Banff, in collaboration with Teresa Gleadowe.

About the author

Kitty Scott has held positions as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Director of Visual Arts, The Banff Centre, Banff; Chief Curator, the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. As an arts educator, she has been a visiting professor for the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco; as well as an adjunct professor at York University, Toronto, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Scott has curated many significant exhibitions, and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Kassel. She was the Canadian coordinator for the Seventh International Istanbul Biennial (2001), and also worked on the inaugural SITE Santa Fe Biennial (1995). She organized the curatorial symposium Are Curators Unprofessional? (2010) at The Banff Centre, and edited the resulting publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (2010). Scott has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and journals including Parachute, Parkett, Mousse, and Canadian Art. She has written texts for multiple monographic publications; and contributed to numerous books on curatorial studies, including the publication Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture (2010).

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