Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis Biennales as Agents of Change
Felicity Fenner
Routledge
English
Hardcover
132 pages
216 x 138 mm
2022
ISBN 9780367671921
Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth.
The book is largely focused on biennales, which it argues are the contemporary exhibition models with the greatest capacity to offer new perspectives and propose alternative ways of connecting with our social and natural environments. Felicity Fenner demonstrates this by showing how curators of these high-profile exhibitions are responding in creative and engaging ways to the issues that preoccupy artists and society more broadly, of which the ecological crisis is paramount. Drawing on case studies from different parts of the world, the author reveals how biennales can make a constructive contribution to debates and attitudes around climate change, and how the role of the curator has evolved to re-embrace a duty of care not just to art but to the natural world as well.
Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis investigates how large-scale exhibitions of contemporary international art can become agents of change. As such, the book will be essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners with an interest in exhibitions, curating, contemporary art, and environmental sustainability.
(source: https://www.routledge.com/Curating-in-a-Time-of-Ecological-Crisis-Biennales-as-Agents-of-Change/Fenner/p/book/9780367671921)
About the Author
Associate Professor Felicity Fenner is a renowned curator of contemporary art, having curated over 40 exhibitions of Australian and international art since the late 1990s. She is currently Chair of the City of Sydney’s Public Art Advisory Panel, of which she has been a member since 2007. She is an Associate Professor at the The University of New South Wales in Sydney.
(source: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/felicity-fenner)
About the Publisher
Routledge is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science.
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