“100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research
Olga von Schubert
Sternberg Press
English
Softcover
72 pages
120 x 190 mm
2018
ISBN 9783956793998
Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. The eleventh volume of the Contemporary Condition presents “100 Years of Now,” a research project taking place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from 2015 to 2019, as a critical investigation into the temporality of contemporaneity—both in terms of its structure and content. To address the expanding temporality of the now, the book argues for the need to include other forms of knowledge in curatorial process, and for contemporary cultural institutions to facilitate the development of collective curatorial processes and research practices.
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About the Author
Olga von Schubert is a research consultant and project manager in the directorship of the House of World Cultures, where she is currently responsible for the New Alphabet School and the Library 100 Years of Now. Previously, she worked in the curatorial team of the exhibition office of hürlimann+lepp and the German Hygiene Museum Dresden. She studied Comparative Literature and Art History in Berlin and holds an MA in Contemporary Approaches to English Studies from Goldsmiths College London. As a freelance curator, she was responsible for the exhibitions everything at the moment – About the rhythm that determines our lives (2017) at the Vögele Kulturzentrum near Zurich and The Irregulars – Economies of Deviation (2013) at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin.
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About the Publisher
Sternberg Press grew out of the small publishing house known as Lukas & Sternberg, founded in 1999 by Caroline Schneider. With a focus on art criticism, theory, fiction, and artists’ books, the Berlin-New York based publishing endeavor was set in motion with a pocket book series—edited in part with Nicolaus Schafhausen. Dedicated to an expanded notion of writing on art, Sternberg Press has created a formidable platform in which practitioners from the fields of art and culture (architecture, design, film, politics, literature, and philosophy) can engage in a critical discourse. Each book is a special object celebrating creative publishing at its best, based on both meticulous editorial decisions and distinctive design. Through both commissioned and translated works, Sternberg Press seeks out the blind spots within contemporary discourse and offers a timely response to the related debates.
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